SoVD survey: Deep mistrust in nursing care
A survey conducted by the Civey Institute on behalf of the German Social Association (SoVD) shows that almost two-thirds of Germans (64%) expect poor care in old age, while only one in ten (10%) expects good care. Women (70.6%) and 40 to 49-year-olds (79.7%) are...
KVB Representatives’ Meeting: Ruthless criticism of iMVZ
On 25 November 2025 in Munich, the Representatives' Assembly (VV) of the Bavarian Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians (KVB) sharply criticised investor-operated medical care centres (iMVZ) and called for stronger regulation. She also discussed the...
Pharmacies in North Rhine-Westphalia call for vaccinations against flu, Covid-19, RSV and pneumococcus
As temperatures drop in autumn and winter, respiratory infections caused by viruses such as flu, corona, RSV (respiratory syncytial virus) and bacteria such as pneumococci increase. Older people, the chronically ill and nursing home residents are particularly at risk...
Oldenburg AI model “CarbaDetector” revolutionizes the detection of antibiotic resistance
Researchers at the University Medical Center Oldenburg have developed "CarbaDetector", an AI model that identifies antibiotic-resistant bacteria more precisely than previous methods - with significantly fewer false-positive results. This reduces unnecessary,...
Würzburg: EU project JARDIN promotes diagnosis of rare diseases
From 12 to 14 November 2025, experts from Latvia, Austria and Romania met with experts from the Centre for Rare Diseases – Reference Centre Northern Bavaria (ZESE) in Würzburg. The aim of the meeting, which was part of the EU project JARDIN, was to improve the...
Surprising double whammy: Kinase inhibitors block and degrade cancer proteins
A new study led by researchers from the CeMM Research Center for Molecular Medicine and the AITHYRA Institute for Artificial Intelligence in Biomedicine, both institutes of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna, and the IRB Barcelona shows that many kinase...
Nerve regeneration in diabetes: New peptide could revolutionize therapy
A research team led by Prof. Dr. Dietmar Fischer from the University of Cologne and the Center for Pharmacology at the University Hospital of Cologne has deciphered a central mechanism that inhibits nerve regeneration in diabetes and developed a therapeutic peptide...
Monitoring liver diseases with digital biomarkers
Digital biomarkers can effectively support the monitoring of chronic diseases in outpatient care. Patients with metabolic liver disease are an increasingly important target group. Here, CE IVD-marked algorithms in general practitioner and specialist care can usefully...
Application-related data collection: According to IQWiG, registry data can be helpful for benefit assessment
For the benefit assessment of drugs, data is needed for comparison with the therapeutic standard. Since orphan drugs are often approved on the basis of non-comparative data, the legislator introduced the procedure of application-accompanying data collection (AbD) from...
Case report: Antiangiogenic therapy as a beacon of hope in the fight against pulmonary NUT midline cancer
Primary pulmonary nuclear protein of testis (NUT) midline cancer (NMC) is an extremely rare, highly aggressive malignant disease of the thoracic cavity that poses significant diagnostic and therapeutic challenges and is characterized by heterogeneous clinical...
