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DGTI: Registry facilitates search for suitable donors with rare blood types
Due to the coronavirus pandemic, there are currently shortages in the supply of blood products. Regular blood donations are needed to ensure that patients can continue to receive safe treatment with blood products in therapy and emergency care. Even outside of the current exceptional situation...
22.07.2020
Drug discount agreements: AOK plans sanctions for environmental sins
„The coronavirus pandemic clearly demonstrates how dependent the supply of medicines in Europe is on the globally operating, crisis-prone production and supply chains of the globally positioned pharmaceutical industry,“ said Johannes Bauernfeind, CEO of AOK Baden-Württemberg and ...
22.07.2020
Skin cancer: More cases than ever before in the Rhine-Ruhr region and in Hamburg
Skin cancer is becoming increasingly common. According to analyses by AOK Rheinland/Hamburg, the number of sick leave certificates issued due to skin cancer more than doubled between 2003 and 2019.
22.07.2020
AOK health report: One in twelve residents is diabetic
One in twelve residents between the Rhine and Ruhr rivers suffers from type 2 diabetes. More precisely: 8.2 percent of the population. This is according to the new health report from AOK Rheinland/Hamburg, whose diabetes figures are, according to the company, representative of the entire population.
15.07.2020
The coronavirus crisis is impacting aftercare
Acute stroke care in Germany was never at risk during the coronavirus crisis. However, problems arose in aftercare, as a survey by the German Stroke Foundation shows.
14.07.2020
Flu vaccination: A fatal signal from the AOK to the medical profession
„"A slap in the face to general practitioners": That's how the chairman of the North Rhine regional group of the Virchowbund describes the recently reached agreement on a pilot project for flu vaccinations. According to the agreement, pharmacists will be allowed to administer vaccinations for the first time. The reimbursement for this...
14.07.2020
Covid-19: Women are significantly more likely to become infected at work than men.
Women played a crucial role in keeping the country running during the peak of the coronavirus pandemic – because they are disproportionately represented in so-called systemically important professions. A data analysis by the Scientific Institute of the AOK (WIdO) now shows that many women...
13.07.2020
Fresh money is not a panacea in the healthcare sector either.
Under the title "Strengthening Integrated Care at the Interface of Outpatient and Inpatient Care!", the German Society for Integrated Care in Healthcare (DGIV) critically examines the government's work in this area in its position paper this year...
13.07.2020
The number of preventive colonoscopies performed increased by 14.4 percent between 2018 and 2019.
The number of screening colonoscopies performed by physicians under contract with the statutory health insurance system as part of colorectal cancer prevention increased sharply in 2019: While only 447,840 patients underwent this examination in 2018, the number rose to 512,428 in 2019. This represents a relative increase of 14.4%...
10.07.2020
Karliczek: New focus for research on mental health and child and adolescent health
The Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) opened the application processes for a German Center for Mental Health and a German Center for Child and Adolescent Health with its funding guidelines of July 3, 2020. Relevant German institutions can now apply...