April 17th 2019, Frankfurt Germany STRAMMER is excited to have Daniel Jap Lim join the team as Senior Consultant – Full Talent Solution®, DACH. With an education background in Business Administration majoring in Human Resources Management, Daniel brings along several years of experience as a Recruiter, Talent Acquisition Partner, and most recently as Consultant. Some [...]
Abbott and Novo Nordisk plan to link diabetes devices Global Healthcare companies Abbott and Novo Nordisk have entered into a partnership, to provide integrated digital solutions to people with diabetes. The collaboration will enable insulin data to be shared between Novo Nordisk connected insulin pens and digital health tools compatible with Abbott’s FreeStyle Libre [...]
Pantheris - Cholesterol Plaque removing Machine A high cholesterol level magnifies the risks of heart disease and stroke, and the statistics associated with it are staggering. Globally, a third of heart diseases are attributed to high cholesterol, which has caused an estimated 2.6 million deaths and 29.7 million disabilities as per the last available [...]
Common Drugs to help with Mental Illnesses A study claims that medications commonly used to fight some physical health diseases could bring significant benefits to people with critical mental illnesses, like schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. The study, published in the journal JAMA Psychiatry, assessed the health data records of 142,691 patients with serious mental illness (SMI) in Sweden. Researchers from the Karolinska Institute in Sweden and the University College London (UCL), in the UK, analysed patients' health records relating to self-harm and psychiatric hospitalisation. The team assessed patients who were prescribed statins used for cholesterol/heart disease, L-type calcium [...]
Wordl Health Day 2019 Sunday, April 7th 2019 is World Health Day, a UN and World Health Organisation (WHO) observance since 1950 meant to raise awareness about the need to improve global health. Over the past 70 years, it has brought to light a vast array of significant health issues: mental health, maternal and child care, [...]
April 4th 2019, Paris STRAMMER is excited to have Anelis Quesada join the team as a Consultant Middle Management Science & Innovation. Anelis’ professional career began 8 years ago as a Recruitment Consultant for an executive search and interim management firm where she was later promoted to Senior Recruiter in Life Sciences. With an [...]
World Autism Awareness Day The twelfth annual World Autism Awareness Day is being observed on April 2, 2019. Hundreds of thousands of landmarks, buildings, homes and communities around the world will be lit in blue in recognition of people living with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), commonly referred to as Autism. Autism is a life-long neurodevelopmental [...]
New Discovery gives Hope for Alzheimer’s Therapy Alzheimer’s is a debilitating condition, that statistics show, is affecting nearly 44 million people worldwide. It is most commonly prevalent in Western Europe (North America is close behind). Now researchers at Cornell University have made a critical discovery of a culprit for Alzheimer’s onset, after a decade of research [...]
Wheelie 7 – Wheelchairs with Human Expression Control Brazilian startup Hoobox Robotics is producing an adapter kit that allows electric wheelchairs to be controlled by the users’ facial expressions, therefore taking advantage of the user’s best abilities to counteract their physical limitations. About 10% of the global population - almost 650 million people, have disabilities, [...]
Patient Experience: Transforming towards Patient-Centric Healthcare A Transformation towards a Patient-centric Healthcare is increasingly the need of the hour. Patient experience goes beyond on-site visit. It starts from pre-visit conditions, i.e. patient making an appointment after initial pain, and goes to post-discharge conditions. One of the three main pillars of quality care alongside safety [...]
