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Life Healthcare wants to sell Scanmed
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Life Healthcare wants to sell Scanmed

The South African Life Healthcare group is trying to sell Scanmed, reports Puls Biznesu. This could be a record deal on the Polish private healthcare market. Branch investor or private equity fund? Life Healthcare already considered selling Scanmed last year, but now these plans are taking shape. The largest private medical companies in Poland, such…

PMR report: Private healthcare market in Poland vs economy
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PMR report: Private healthcare market in Poland vs economy

According to the latest PMR report, the fastest growth rate of the private healthcare market is expected between 2019 and 2020. The growth will be driven by strong household consumption supported by a good labour market situation. Demographic trends will affect the private healthcare market Low and falling unemployment, as well as rising wages and…

Poland as a leader in the biomedical sector in CEE ?
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Poland as a leader in the biomedical sector in CEE ?

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of a strong domestic biomedical sector in fostering innovation. Therefore, the government proposed a resolution of the Council of Ministers on the adoption of the document “Government Plan for the Development of the Biomedical Sector for 2021-2030”. Poland’s ambition is to become a leader in the biomedical sector…

New vaccine for Omicron: Pfizer and Biontech have begun production
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New vaccine for Omicron: Pfizer and Biontech have begun production

The German pharmaceutical company BioNTech and its American partner Pfizer have begun developing a COVID-19 vaccine customized to the omicron coronavirus strain, for subsequent commercial usage. According to BioNTech CEO Ugura Sahina, the manufacture of a COVID-19 vaccine customized to the omicron version has begun. Clinical studies on the vaccine will begin in late January. After…

Medicover develops Poland’s first eco-friendly dental center
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Medicover develops Poland’s first eco-friendly dental center

Medicover Stomatologia is expanding the “Rytual Usmiechu” concept, under which numerous dental facilities were opened through the whole 2021. The “Rytual Usmiechu” format is now also available in the ECO version. The first of these locations, with 419 m2 and nine offices, was created in Warsaw’s Spark office complex. Another important aspect of “green dentistry”…

Paxlovid approved as first oral drug for COVID-19
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Paxlovid approved as first oral drug for COVID-19

Paxlovid, a Pfizer-developed anti-covid medicine that is the first anti-covid treatment licensed in the United States in oral tablet form, received emergency approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Paxlovid was licensed by the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) in London shortly after. The first supply of the medication recently arrived…

Baxter completes Hillrom acquisition to create global multibillion medtech leader
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Baxter completes Hillrom acquisition to create global multibillion medtech leader

Baxter International, Inc. has completed its purchase of Hill-Rom Holdings, Inc., transforming Baxter into a $15bn global entity in the field of medical technologies.  The merger brings together two top medtech companies with a common goal of revolutionizing healthcare and improving patient care throughout the world. The company intends to expand legacy Hillrom and Welch Allyn…

Fewer Poles vaccinated with the third dose – a mistake of vaccination centres ?

Fewer Poles vaccinated with the third dose – a mistake of vaccination centres ?

The Ministry of Health explained that the decreasing number of those vaccinated with the third dose, in the daily statistics on COVID-19 vaccinations, is related to the correction of vaccination cards by the vaccination points. It has been discovered that booster injections are entered as the “third dose” instead of booster. Specifically, as the ministry communicated: “Despite the information…

ABM: innovative therapeutic solutions in RNA technology with opportunity in Poland ?
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ABM: innovative therapeutic solutions in RNA technology with opportunity in Poland ?

Medical Research Agency (MRA) has informed that the innovative therapeutic solutions, selected in a recent competition, among others, will be a starting point for the creation of vaccines and innovative medicines using RNA technology. The selected five research teams will develop RNA technology in Poland in the course of the coming five years. A total of…