Tag: Medical technology
Omikron variant is fueling the need for genetic diagnostics
Genome Sequencing in India Sequencing is still indispensable for the detection of new virus variants. (Photo: Bloomberg) Frankfurt New waves of corona infection in numerous countries and the spread of…
This is how doctors treat Covid patients in the intensive care unit
Berlin The doctors and nurses did not have much time to breathe through the stresses of the second and third waves of the corona pandemic. Well, a few months after…
How well do rapid tests recognize the corona variant?
Frankfurt The coronavirus variant called Omikron, sequenced for the first time in South Africa, could limit the effectiveness of the previously approved Sars-CoV-2 vaccines due to the large number of…
Triage – How clinics manage Covid-19
Frankfurt More and more Covid 19 patients are on the wards of German clinics. Even if the number of infections stagnated immediately, this development would continue for more than a…
Mentalis, MyaLink and Co .: The winners of the Health-i-Awards
Excellent ideas For the hybrid award ceremony of the Health-i-Awards, some winners and finalists came to Düsseldorf in person, including the teams from the diagnostics company Centogene and the start-ups…
Working shifts against dying
Nurse Meryl Meister (left) with a colleague “What is going wrong in our society? Doesn’t one of you care about your neighbors? ”Says Meryl Meister. (Photo: dpa) Stuttgart Meryl Meister…
Competitor Unilabs is for sale
Unilabs laboratory in Paris The laboratory chain based in Switzerland is for sale. (Photo: imago images / Hans Lucas) Frankfurt A good six months after the German laboratory chain Synlab…
Fresenius Medical Care wants to cut hundreds of jobs in Germany
Fresenius Medical Care The group announced an austerity program at the beginning of November. (Photo: imago images / Jörg Halisch) bad Homburg The planned reduction of 5,000 jobs worldwide at…
Siemens Healthineers increase the medium-term goals
Munich, Frankfurt Siemens Healthineers want to accelerate their growth in the coming years. “We are doing pioneering work in the healthcare sector,” said Healthineers boss Bernd Montag on Wednesday at…
Thanks to chip technology, Zeiss has over seven billion euros in sales for the first time
Dieter Kurz The head of the foundation has accompanied the future chip technology project at Zeiss from the start. (Photo: Berthold Steinhilber / laif) Stuttgart Semiconductor technology in particular is…
Asia expert Staudinger moves up to the board
Elisabeth Staudinger The 51-year-old will be responsible for the Asia-Pacific region on the top management body. Munich Elisabeth Staudinger is promoted to the board of directors of the Dax group…
Female Founder Prize winner Jünger demands “maximum courage” from young women
Katharina Jünger, CEO of TeleClinic In 2015, the lawyer founded the online medical practice TeleClinic. (Photo: Teleclinic) Berlin In her speech, Katharina Jünger had a clear message to young women:…
Eye laser manufacturer Schwind is for sale
Rolf Schwind The 65-year-old Rolf Schwind would prefer an investor to a buyer. Frankfurt According to financial circles, the eye laser manufacturer Schwind Eye-Tech-Solutions is for sale. Interested parties are…
From megatrend to medicine of the future?
MRI examination New therapeutic approaches give hope for an individual treatment of diseases. Oncology is just one of many areas of application. (Photo: dpa) A lot is going on in…
Siemens Healthineers achieve record sales in the corona crisis
Siemens Healthineers headquarters The DAX newcomer achieved record sales in the corona pandemic. (Photo: dpa) Munich The DAX newcomer Siemens Healthineers closed its fiscal year with a record turnover, thanks…
Fresenius Medical Care cuts 5,000 jobs in realignment
Health group Fresenius Medical Care The dialysis specialist is reducing jobs worldwide. (Photo: dapd) Frankfurt The ongoing corona pandemic is affecting the Dax Group Fresenius longer and more than expected.…
With donor cells against cancer
Frankfurt Gerhard Ehninger moved a lot in his life – as a doctor and as a researcher. The medical professor co-founded the German bone marrow donor database, taught for two…
These are the best healthcare IT consultants
AI evaluation in a Chinese clinic Digitization increases the need for advice. (Photo: China News Service / Getty Images) Cologne What is the course of a patient’s illness? This question…
This is the next biotech hope for investors
Frankfurt Andreas Bergmann has been driving this goal for many years to reduce the mortality of patients in intensive care units. Sepsis is one of the big topics on which…
Medical technology industry of the future: Is it worth investing?
In the first half of 2021, German start-ups were able to secure more capital than ever before: Almost 7.6 billion euros flowed into the start-ups. In the second half of…