A change of perspective in the eyes of the German labor unions regarding East-European immigrants

German labor unions start to change their opinion about Romanian, Bulgarian, Polish and Lithuanian immigrants that choose to work in Germany. They consider them colleagues and not competitors and act against their exploitation. – Deutsche Welle Numerous immigrants are forced to work in precarious conditions and are badly paid and some of them don’t know…

German patients are more than happy with their doctors

Berlin – German patients are in general satisfied by their visits to the doctor. This fact was revealed in a study conducted by Berndan-Schmittmann-Stiftung to which 7683 patients were subjected in 166 Doctor Practices from 2008 until 2011. The “impact” question of the whole study was: “Do you have any suggestions on how the quality…

Nobel Prize for Medicine 2012

Stockholm – British researcher John Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka of Japan won this year’s Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for discovering that mature, specialized cells of the body can be reprogrammed into stem cells – a discovery that scientists hope to turn into new treatments. Scientists want to harness the reprogramming to create replacement…