health Doctors get more money for treating children A doctor examines a child. photo © Sebastian Gollnow/dpa Health Minister Karl Lauterbach asked in December for more financial support for doctors who treat children's respiratory infections. Now they should get more money. Doctors should temporarily get more money for such treatments because of the high workload caused by many respiratory infections in children. The Central Association of Statutory Health Insurance Funds (GKV) and the National Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians...
The weekly podcast Everything is explained at the service of these listeners! Do you have a health question concerning sexuality? Send us your questions at [email protected] Health professionals and experts answer you in podcast. This is what Farid K. did, who sent the following message to [email protected]: “The urine problems caused by prostate adenoma are very disturbing, even disabling. (…) I would have liked to hear [un] professor mention the new surgical techniques for prostate adenoma, knowing that those that...
© istock The bark beetle The bark beetle is a small xylophagous insectthat's to say feeding on wood, which belongs to the order Coleoptera like the ladybug or the beetle. Within this order of beetles, bark beetles are a subfamily of the family Curculionidae, a family of insect pests. With a size between 2 and 7 mm, the beetle has a cylindrical body of black or brown color, and covered with elytra which protect its wings. And of course, impossible...
© istock The zeuzère Of the order Lepidoptera, i.e. butterflies, the zeuzère is part of the Cossidae family which includes various xylophagous insects, including the cossus wood-spoiler, a very apt name. You will hardly have the opportunity to see adult zeuzères in your garden, first because they are moths and second because their adult life is limited to 8 to 10 days. Unfortunately, the damage of their caterpillarsthey will be clearly visible. Nicknamed " Coquette ", this butterfly can have...
© istock onion maggot Also called Delia antique, the onion fly looks like a classic fly. This is a diptera insect, that is to say with only one pair of wings, of the family Anthomyiidae. Gray-yellow in color, this insect measures about 6 to 7 mm when it is adult and differs from the ordinary fly by its yellowish, but transparent wings, which are crossed above its abdomen when it is not flying, by the 5 gray stripes drawn on...
Status: 11/20/2022 7:51 am Every sixth couple in Germany has difficulties in fulfilling their desire to have children, and the trend is rising. Could this be due to the decreasing number of sperm in men? By Anja Braun, Leila Boucheligua and Antonia Weise, SWR In Germany, more and more fertility treatments are being used. This is from the recently published Yearbook of the German IVF Register (DIR) out. In 1997, more than 6,500 children were born after fertility treatment; in...
Overweight is not just overweight, which is hard to overlook when dealing with obese patients every day. For example, says Matthias Blüher, there are women who only gain weight during the menopause - even though they never had any weight problems before. Or people who actually only get fatter under stress. In his obesity outpatient clinic at the University Clinic in Leipzig, however, there are also patients who do not need such triggers at all. Because they have been carrying...
Botox and Co. Facial treatments increased in the second year of the pandemic – especially among young people Facial treatments with Botox are becoming increasingly popular, especially among young patients (symbol image) © Robert Przybysz / PantherMedia / Picture Alliance The number of facial treatments in Germany has increased. Young people in particular have Botox or hyaluron injected more often. The Association of German Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons sees a connection with the corona pandemic. Last year there was an increase...
Two existing treatments considerably reduce mortality linked to the Ebola virus disease, the World Health Organization said on Friday, which strongly recommends its administration to all people who suffer from this hemorrhagic fever. This is the first time that WHO has made treatment recommendations for Ebola. These “strong recommendations” relate to treatment “with mAb114 or with REGN-EB3” in patients with Ebola virus disease (EVD). It makes the same recommendation for “newborns with unconfirmed Ebola virus disease, aged 7 days or...
This is a simple way to make significant savings. At a time when hospitals need resources and when health spending exploded with Covid-19bet on biosimilars is an interesting track. But these complex and recent drugs remain unknown to the general public. And can arouse the mistrust of patients. 20 minutes answers five questions to better understand the issues surrounding these drugs.What is a biosimilar?It's a life-derived medicine (protein, human or animal cell), hence the term “organic” (not to be confused...
