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Explanatory video: Healthcare market

Helping keep people healthy well into old age? Providing high-quality, affordable healthcare for ever more people around the world? That’s what healthcare companies are working for.
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Growing up with parenteral nutrition

How two brave adventurers from Switzerland are exploring the world step-by-step.
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The History of Dialysis

If the kidneys fail, death was certain for a long time. The year 1945 changed that.
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Using protons to take on cancer

Fresenius Helios to open Spain’s first proton beam therapy center.
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News

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S&P upgrades Fresenius to BBB with stable outlook

Standard & Poor’s has revised Fresenius’ corporate credit rating to BBB with a stable outlook from BBB- with a positive outlook. Fresenius is rated investment grade by the three leading rating agencies Standard & Poor’s (BBB/stable), Moody's (Baa3/stable) and Fitch (BBB-/stable).

May 23, 2019Fresenius

S&P upgrades Fresenius Medical Care to BBB with stable outlook

Standard & Poor’s has upgraded Fresenius Medical Care’s corporate credit rating to BBB with a stable outlook from BBB- with a positive outlook.
May 23, 2019Fresenius Medical Care
Annual General Meeting: Fresenius on course for continued growth, 26th straight increase in dividend approved

May 17, 2019Fresenius

Fresenius Medical Care stays on course for growth – Annual General Meeting approves 22nd straight dividend increase

May 16, 2019Fresenius Medical Care
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Fresenius Kabi launches biosimilar adalimumab IDACIO® in Germany

Fresenius Kabi is launching its first biosimilar in Germany following the European Commission (EC) granting marketing authorization for IDACIO® for all indications of the reference medicine in the areas of rheumatology, gastroenterology and dermatology.

May 03, 2019Fresenius Kabi

Fresenius makes solid start to 2019 and confirms Group guidance

May 02, 2019Fresenius
Fresenius Medical Care with a good start into 2019

May 02, 2019Fresenius Medical Care

Brief News
Fresenius Kabi receives European Commission approval for adalimumab biosimilar IDACIO®

The European Commission (EC) granted Fresenius Kabi the marketing authorization for IDACIO®, an adalimumab biosimilar, for all indications of the reference medicine. With this EC approval, IDACIO® is the first approved molecule of the Fresenius Kabi biosimilars portfolio.

April 03, 2019Fresenius Kabi
Fresenius Medical Care resolves FCPA investigation

March 29, 2019Fresenius Medical Care

Fresenius Medical Care appoints Dr. Frank Maddux as Global Chief Medical Officer

March 20, 2019Fresenius Medical Care
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Fresenius Helios and Marburger Bund agree on collective labor agreement

Helios Germany and the doctors' union Marburger Bund have agreed on a collective labor agreement for about 5,400 physicians in 34 Helios hospitals. It applies to the hospitals included in the Helios Group collective labor agreement. With effect from 1 January 2019, the base salary will increase by 2.5 percent. A further increase of 2.5 percent will follow on January 1, 2020. Salaries will thus increase by a total of 5 percent. This is in line with Fresenius Group's expectations.

March 19, 2019Fresenius Helios

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Fresenius Helios holds topping-out ceremony for new hospital building in Wiesbaden

Fresenius Helios held the topping-out ceremony today for the new main building at Helios HSK hospital in the German city of Wiesbaden, near Frankfurt. The seven-story structure, with almost 100,000 square meters (about 1 million square feet) of floor space, is being erected beside the existing clinic. It will have 22 operating rooms, about 1,000 beds, and a design that significantly reduces distances and waiting times for patients. Helios is investing about €200 million in the new building, while the state of Hesse is contributing €68 million. Completion is scheduled for 2021.

March 15, 2019Fresenius Helios
Fresenius Medical Care completes acquisition of NxStage Medical

February 26, 2019Fresenius Medical Care

Potentialpark study for 2019 finds Fresenius has Germany’s best online offering for job applicants

February 21, 2019Fresenius
Fresenius reports 15th consecutive record year – Significant investments in FY/18 and FY/19 for future growth

February 20, 2019Fresenius

Fresenius Medical Care achieves revised 2018 targets and accelerates investments for future growth

February 20, 2019Fresenius Medical Care
Fresenius Medical Care announces retirement of Chief Financial Officer Michael Brosnan

February 20, 2019Fresenius Medical Care

Brief News
Fresenius Kabi receives positive CHMP opinion for MSB11022, a biosimilar candidate of adalimumab

Fresenius Kabi announced today that the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has issued a positive opinion, recommending marketing authorization for MSB11022 a biosimilar candidate of Humira^® (adalimumab)*. The European Commission (EC) will now decide on the approval of MSB11022 which is expected in Q2/ 2019.
*Humira^® is a registered trademark of AbbVie Biotechnology Ltd.

February 01, 2019Fresenius Kabi
Fresenius Medical Care and NxStage extend merger end-date due to government shutdown

January 29, 2019Fresenius Medical Care

Fresenius Medical Care launches 4008A dialysis machine tailored to needs in emerging markets

January 18, 2019Fresenius Medical Care
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Fresenius Vamed adds new resort to network in Austria

VAMED Vitality World has taken over operation of a health resort in Austria’s Styria state. Operating under the new name of Spa Resort Styria in the town of Bad Waltersdorf, near Graz, the resort will offer health tourism for adults. Fresenius Vamed is the market leader in Austria, with about 3.2 million annual visitors to the company’s eight thermal spas and health resorts.

January 14, 2019Fresenius Vamed

Fresenius successfully places €1.0 billion in notes

Fresenius today successfully placed notes in two tranches with an aggregate volume of €1.0 billion.
January 10, 2019Fresenius
Fresenius Medical Care awaiting U.S. Federal Trade Commission decision on NxStage Medical acquisition

December 28, 2018Fresenius Medical Care

Brief News
Fresenius wins award for compensatory time account calculator

Der Gesundheitskonzern Fresenius ist für seinen Langzeitkonto-Rechner mit dem „HR Excellence Award 2018“ in der Kategorie „Compensation & Benefits“ ausgezeichnet worden. Der Langzeitkonto-Rechner bietet den Mitarbeitern schnell und transparent Informationen über eingebrachte Beiträge, Auszeiten für die persönliche Weiterbildung oder die Pflege von Angehörigen sowie einen möglichen Vorruhestand. Mit den „HR Excellence Awards“ prämiert das Magazin „Human Resources Manager“ seit 2012 herausragende Projekte im Personalmanagement.

December 14, 2018Fresenius
Unicyte AG to collaborate with Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf on innovative treatments for patients with kidney disorders

December 12, 2018Fresenius Medical Care

Brief News
PWC proposed as auditor for 2020

The Supervisory Board of Fresenius SE & Co. KGaA has decided to propose PricewaterhouseCoopers GmbH Wirtschaftsprüfungsgesellschaft as the auditor for the financial year 2020. The shareholders will decide on the appointment at the Annual General Meeting in 2020. New regulations provide for a regular rotation of the auditor, so Fresenius was not able to extend the existing mandate of KPMG AG Wirtschaftsprüfungsgesellschaft.

December 10, 2018Fresenius
Delaware Supreme Court upholds Fresenius’ termination of merger agreement with Akorn

December 07, 2018Fresenius Kabi

Fresenius expects mid-single digit organic growth in the medium-term, after strong investment year 2019

December 06, 2018Fresenius
Fresenius Medical Care gives early preliminary indicative guidance for 2019

December 06, 2018Fresenius Medical Care

Fresenius Medical Care announces acquisition of renal hospitals and dialysis centers in China

December 05, 2018Fresenius Medical Care