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Newswave

Newswave.eu is a Copenhagen based news website publishing a daily selection of articles chosen from monitoring regional and EU news titles. Newswave.eu is also a platform for featuring opinions, blogs and debates of the Baltic Sea Region. newsWave is partly financed by the Baltic Sea Program 2009-2013 (submitting the EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region) under the umbrella of the project ONE BSR. Newswave.eu was launched 26 February 2013 by Baltic Development Forum (BDF) who is editor-in-chief of the website. The BDF publishing team enjoys complete editorial independence.

KADIS Diabetes Management

Karlsburg has been an internationally distinguished place for diabetes research and treatment since 1930. In combination with the telemedicine system TeleDIAB®, the Karlsburg Diabetes Management System KADIS®, which is the result of 30 years intensive research, supports physicians and patients in their daily efforts to optimize the glycemic control. The services offered by the Diabetes Service Center Karlsburg is ready for use in the ambulatory practice with a number of specialized applications for e.g. education, optimization of glycemic control, prevention and personalized decision support.

DST GmbH

DST has identified the chances in developing, manufacturing and marketing in vitro tests for point of care diagnostics. Major products of the company are tests based on the FastCheckPOC® platform that require only little amounts of capillary or heparin blood. These tests come as complete kits and do not require any further equipment or readers. The test result becomes visible as an unambiguous patented display after max. 30 minutes. DST’s FastCheckPOC® allergy tests screen specific IgE against multiple airborne or food allergens, respectively and covers 90% of the relevant European allergies.