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Countries want to malformations in newborns queries

The länder want to ill ask houses to malformations of the newborn. Background an accumulation of Hand malformations in newborns in Gelsenkirchen. Since it is unclear whether there is a cause, or whether it is a random accumulation, the health ministries of the countries now, nationwide, more information about similar malformations must be obtained. Within […]

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Spahn wants homeopathy on a cash cost probing

Federal Minister of health, Jens Spahn (CDU) does not want to touch controversial assumption of Costs for homeopathic medicinal products by health insurance companies. He referred on Tuesday evening in Berlin, the “Berliner Salon” of the editorial network in Germany that the statutory funds in the case of Drug expenditure of around 40 billion euros […]

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Many Germans are afraid of the hospital

Almost every third woman (32%) and every fourth man (25 percent), fear of a Forsa survey shows that in front of a stationary treatment in the clinic. The representative survey commissioned by the Kaufmännische Krankenkasse (KKH) also shows that 81 per cent of the Anxious fear of becoming infected with hospital germs. Every Second person […]

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Blood reveals death risk

Why die for some people 75 years and others are 100 years old? The answer may lie in the view of an international team of researchers in the blood. The scientists have identified 14 so-called biomarkers, with which the probability can be calculate to die within the next five or ten years, as they report […]

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Uses China were still organs from executed?

Two international medical journals have decided to publications on organ transplant to increase ion in China. As several expert reports in the media, withdrew the Magazine “Transplantation” and “Plos One”, a total of 15 studies, relating presumably to the use of organs of executed prisoners. Background of the research, a team of researchers from the […]

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The surgeon, the walls tear

Anyone who calls this Thursday, the Google home page, among other things, in the UK, Canada and Australia, the looks instead of the usual company logo, the drawing of a serious-looking woman in scrubs. Behind her, all the hand-operation is to recognise Cutlery. With this Doodle, the group celebrates Blake Louisa Aldrich. Today 154 years […]

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Airlines prepared for emergencies with sick children bad

Anyone who flies with children should carry child-friendly medicines, because airlines are not prepared, according to a recent study is often sufficient for young patients. The main problem: First-aid Kits on Board are not always on the necessary treatments for the offspring, the researchers write in a study published in the journal “Annals of Emergency […]

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Jesper Juul is dead

For years, Jesper Juul was not occurred because of a serious illness to the public. Instead, the well-known family therapist, has lived in seclusion in his native Denmark. There he is in the early Morning of the 25th. July to pneumonia and died. He was 71 years old. The Institute Familylab, quoting Juuls adult son […]