A service designed to deep freeze people after death has already gained its first client in the German capital. But experts warn that there is no current evidence that they can be revived in the future.
Germany is the only country in the EU that still allows tobacco companies to advertise their products on billboards and in cinemas. Now, doctors and some politicians pushing to change this.
Authorities shut down a pharmacy vending machine opened by Dutch pharmacy chain Doc Morris in a small town in southwestern Germany, saying the video-operated machine was inconsistent with German law.
Germany's paediatricians association Wednesday demanded mandatory childhood vaccinations against measles and a range of other diseases in a debate kicked off by the health minister.
Since medical marijuana was legalized in Germany in March last year, an increasing number of patients are being prescribed the drug. But the healthcare industry has been less enthusiastic about the boom and many questions have gone unanswered.
More and more people in Germany are applying for prescription cannabis and receiving reimbursements from their health insurance company, according to a media report published on Wednesday.
The highest court in Germany ruled in Karlsruhe on Tuesday that the procedure for allocating study positions in the subject area of human medicine is partially incompatible with the Basic Law.
Hypnosis has long been a kitschy trick performed at mediocre magic shows, but now it's become a regular method practised by thousands of German therapists, dentists and even surgeons.
Rural Germany is on the brink on a crisis: By 2020, around 50,000 registered doctors are expected to retire, but one authority says there is still time to do something about it.
When doctors in Australia admitted defeat in their attempts to cure a young child's brain cancer they said there was only one chance left - a cutting-edge clinic in central Germany.
The Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich is investigating an award-winning scientist, after eight children who participated in an experimental study contracted leukaemia.
A man who fooled a hospital in Hamelin into believing he was a psychotherapist and allowing him to work from their premises has been arrested. Police also found illegal weaponry when they searched his house.
A doctor in Augsburg is alleging that his American patient could still be alive today if police had not taken away his medical marijuana, it was reported on Tuesday.
A nurse allegedly murdered three patients in a hospital's intensive care unit using lethal doses of drugs because he was bored, a court heard on Thursday.
German football players, German tennis players, German TV characters and Germany's latest Topmodel winner are all taking on the ice bucket challenge, but is it actually making a difference?
Update: Around 600 people were held for several hours in emergency quarantine at a Berlin Job Centre on Tuesday after a West African woman collapsed with Ebola-like symptoms. Doctors later diagnosed Malaria.
More than 10,700 patients are waiting for a life-saving organ transplant, but with the organisation handling organ donations still plagued by a 2012 scandal, resulting in what could potentially be an all-time low of organ donations.
A man collapsed and died just 50 metres from a hospital in western Germany on Tuesday morning. A passer-by ran into the hospital, but a porter said doctors were not allowed to leave the building to help.
A court in western Germany has begun hearing over 500 charges against one doctor who is accused of secretly injecting patients with medicine while telling them they were receiving herbal treatment.
German doctors were able to save a 55-year-old man who was in a serious and baffling decline thanks to an episode of hit medical television show "House".
While the German government looks at a blanket ban on assisted suicide, there remain dedicated groups who help seriously ill people end their lives. The Local takes a closer look at the practice.
German doctors are fighting to keep a system which measures whether medicines do what they actually promise - while the new government says it will be scrapped.
A German scientist who found that the “cuddle hormone” oxytocin keeps men faithful by creating a drug-like effect has moved on to testing its effect on moral decision making – and women did not do well.
