Clinicians in Thousands Join Strike and Rally in Hamburg

Clinicians in Thousands Join Strike and Rally in Hamburg

As of: 03/21/2023 6:53 p.m Thousands of hospital doctors in Germany followed the call for a warning strike by the Marburger Bund doctors’ union on Tuesday. Many came to a protest rally in Hamburg. According to the union, around 4,000 doctors from the Asklepios Klinik St. Georg moved to Gänsemarkt at midday. The high inflation … Read more

“Assisting Children with Long Covid in Bavaria amidst the Corona Pandemic”

“Assisting Children with Long Covid in Bavaria amidst the Corona Pandemic”

They lack the strength for school and sport. They hardly see friends anymore: when children and young people fall ill with Long Covid, it often throws them out of life completely. Bavaria has set up special outpatient clinics across the country. But not all parents find their way there. Von Nina von Hardenberg When her … Read more

REPORT – Vitamin infusions: the worrying practice in the United States

REPORT – Vitamin infusions: the worrying practice in the United States

For each problem, its infusion. To keep fit, more and more Americans are having vitamins injected directly into their veins. Well-being influencers, but also celebrities like Rihanna or Justin Bieber, have popularized the technique by publicly displaying their sleeves up. Today, vitamin infusions even invite themselves into the living room of Americans. Alice may be … Read more

Addictions: 2 million deaths from drugs in the United States by 2030 | Global UNAM

Addictions: 2 million deaths from drugs in the United States by 2030 |  Global UNAM

Enrique Cifuentes García warns about the increase in deaths from drug overdose in the United States, reaching a total of 107,622 deaths in 2021, which represented an increase of 15% compared to the previous year. Fentanyl, methamphetamine and cocaine are the main substances responsible for these deaths. Cifuentes García, from the Mount Sinai Hospital in … Read more

Biktarvy, confirmation of the effect of long-term investigation for 5 years of initial treatment

Biktarvy, confirmation of the effect of long-term investigation for 5 years of initial treatment

Biktarvy product photo Five-year long-term data of the HIV-1 drug Biktarvy (ingredient name bictegravir/emtricitabine/tenofovir alafenamide, B/F/TAF) was added to the approval requirements. Gilead Sciences Korea announced on the 27th that the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety on January 30th added clinical information on 5-year long-term data conducted on adults infected with HIV-1 after initial … Read more

Benefits of age before liver cancer treatment… Older people also have a higher prognosis

Benefits of age before liver cancer treatment…  Older people also have a higher prognosis

Lee Han-ah, planning committee member of the Liver Cancer Association (Division of Gastroenterology, Ewha Womans University Mok-dong Hospital) While the number of elderly patients with liver cancer is increasing, a study has found that the prognosis during treatment intervention is similar to that of non-elderly patients. In particular, in the case of advanced liver cancer … Read more

Covid-19: isolation, work stoppages… what changes on February 1

Covid-19: isolation, work stoppages… what changes on February 1

From February 1, the computerized monitoring of positive cases and contact cases will also evolve. The recording of positive test results in the SI-DEP computer file will now be “conditional on obtaining the prior consent of the persons concerned“, until the end of this epidemic monitoring tool, scheduled for the end of June 2023. The … Read more

Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in diabetes? In fact, more cancers

Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in diabetes?  In fact, more cancers

Cancer, not cardiovascular disease, is the leading cause of death in type 2 diabetes, a new study has found. This breaks the conventional wisdom that the cause of death in diabetes is a cardiovascular disease complication, suggesting the need for a multidisciplinary approach. The results of a study on the mortality rate of patients with … Read more

Daewoong Enblo, selected as a successful case of rapid screening by the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety

Daewoong Enblo, selected as a successful case of rapid screening by the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety

Daewoong Pharmaceutical announced that Enblo Tab. was announced as a successful case of rapid product development at the ‘Innovative Pharmaceutical Company GIFT Rapid Review Support Conference’ co-hosted by the Rapid Review Division of the Food and Drug Safety Evaluation Institute and the Korea Pharmaceutical Bio Association at 3:00 pm on the 26th. . An innovative … Read more

GLP-1 raises Ozempic retinopathy… Reconfirmed in large-scale analysis

GLP-1 raises Ozempic retinopathy…  Reconfirmed in large-scale analysis

The side effect issue of diabetic retinopathy (DR) of type 2 diabetes treatment glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonist (GLP-1 RA) has been reconfirmed. At the time of the development of semaglutide, an increase in retinopathy patients was observed in clinical trials, but as a similar trend was found in a meta-analysis involving a total of 60,000 … Read more