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Springer is expanding its share of impact factor journals
Dem aktuellen Journal Citation Reports® (JCR) 2012 von Thomson Reuters zufolge wurden im vergangenen Jahr 46 Zeitschriften von Springer erstmalig mit einem Impact Factor gelistet. Damit kann Springer auf insgesamt 1539 wissenschaftliche Publikationen in seinem Zeitschriftenprogramm verweisen, die ...
15.07.2013
In almost no other field is it more important to strengthen trust through transparency than in medicine. The Asklepios Specialist Clinics Munich-Gauting, Bavaria's largest lung clinic and one of the leading lung clinics in Germany, have therefore been a member of ... since June 2010.
15.07.2013
Three months after the Patient Rights Act came into force, Federal Health Minister Daniel Bahr, together with Federal Justice Minister Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger and the Federal Government's Patients' Commissioner Wolfgang Zöller, today presented a comprehensive information brochure for ...
08.07.2013
The ongoing cap on laboratory physicians' fees not only jeopardizes the high standards of laboratory medicine in Germany, but also, increasingly, patient well-being. This drastic conclusion was reached today by Dr. Andreas Bobrowski, Chairman of the Professional Association of German Laboratory Physicians (BDL)...
08.07.2013
7. spectrumK drug tender is launched
spectrumK continuously supports the supply of over 8 million insured persons with equally high-quality and affordable medications and recently published its seventh consecutive pharmaceutical tender in the EU Official Journal under reference number 2013/S 116-198061 for 72 health insurance funds and 44 ...
08.07.2013
Federal Insurance Office once again awarded as a family-friendly employer
The Federal Insurance Office (BVA) was awarded the [award name] for the second time today in Berlin during a ceremony by the Federal Minister for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth, Dr. Kristina Schröder, and the State Secretary in the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Technology, Dr. Bernhard Heitzer.
08.07.2013
Dexcel continues to be successful with discount contracts
Dexcel Pharma GmbH, Alzenau, has once again achieved success in the latest tender issued by the KKH health insurance company, securing contracts for the products HCT and cyclosporine (Deximune®). With the HCT contract win, the subsidiary of Israel's second-largest pharmaceutical company...
08.07.2013
5,000 people die every year because bystanders fail to help – this must now change!
""I didn't know how to do it properly, but I just pressed down," is how Renate H. (59 years old) describes the chest compressions she performed on her husband after he suffered a sudden cardiac arrest. Germany needs more first responders, because the current statistics are alarming: only 15...
08.07.2013
Following the verdict in the legal proceedings before the North Rhine-Westphalia State Social Court against the 2013 Morbi-RSA decision, the CEO of DEUTSCHE BKK, Achim Kolanoski, stated: „It has now been legally confirmed: The financial equalization scheme of the health insurance funds contains a calculation error…”.