Germany is short of doctors with its lack of GPs increasing by 30 percent in one year. Rural areas are the worst affected, a report released on Friday suggested.
A court sentenced a German gynaecologist on Monday to three-and-a-half years in prison for over 1,400 counts of gross invasion of privacy. He took more than 35,000 photos of his patients using a secret camera hidden in a drawer.
More people in Germany have been going to the dentist since the government abolished the €10 appointment fee earlier this year, figures released on Tuesday revealed.
A German gynaecologist has appeared in court accused of taking more than 35,000 photos of his patients on a secret camera - while he was examining them. He faces ten charges of sexual abuse and more than 1,400 counts of gross invasion of privacy.
A baby girl had a high-speed start to life on Thursday morning when her mother gave birth on a train in eastern Germany. The lucky new-born will be able to travel for free in the area for the rest of her life.
Health officials are warning that Germany’s failure to have blanket vaccinations for measles is putting people unnecessarily at risk of catching the potentially dangerous disease.
German Health Minister Daniel Bahr said on Monday he would push for immigration rules to be eased for healthcare workers, as the country battles against a growing dearth of nurses.
Psychiatrists in Germany are debating a new diagnostic manual due to be published in the United States in May. Some critics are warning that too many new illnesses are being identified and that over-diagnosing ailments could lead to the “medicalization of society’s problems.”
Dwindling numbers of young German doctors qualifying as general practitioners (GPs) are causing concern in the medical community, which said this week the country would face disaster if the shortage was not addressed.
A recent court ruling granting children information about their biological fathers has not deterred German men from making sperm donations, according to fertility experts.
A German court on Wednesday gave a 22-year-old woman whose father was an anonymous sperm donor, the legal right to find out who he was, but the doctor responsible said he no longer had the details.
Nearly every third baby in Germany is born via Caesarian section, giving the country one of the highest rates in Europe for C-sections, <i>Focus</i> magazine reported on Sunday.
Three doctors have been sacked following revelations that some patients had been moved up on an organ transplantation waiting list in the eastern German city of Leipzig.
Chief medical officers can only communicate with one-third of their staff in German and more patients are complaining about many physicians' poor command of the German language, the head of the Berlin Medical Association said on Monday.
In a potential scientific breakthrough for the treatment of venomous snake bites, a German doctor has been given a grant to develop a universal antidote.
German hospitals are increasingly performing non-vital operations for financial gain, according to a damning report by the largest German statutory health insurer due to be released this Friday.
Employers in Germany can demand that sick employees provide a doctor's note from the first day they call in sick, a state labour court ruled on Wednesday. Critics voiced concern that bosses could abuse the new power.
German babies are up to three times more likely to be born by caesarean section in western parts of the country than in the east, a study released on Wednesday revealed.
Experts say incontinence is a “secret widespread ailment” which has been ignored as a taboo subject for too long, as figures show one in ten Germans do not have control over their bladder functions.
The number of German men getting cosmetic surgery has more than doubled over the past five years, making one in every five patients male, the German association for aesthetic surgery (GÄCD) said on Thursday.
German hypochondriacs may have to cope alone soon, as 30 doctors' associations have voted to close their practices and go on strike some time before the end of September.
Nearly half of Germans are in favour of legalising euthanasia businesses, a recent survey revealed. The German parliament is still divided over proposed changes to assisted suicide laws.
German prosecutors said on Tuesday they had opened an investigation into a gynaecologist who allegedly took intimate pictures of women in his care using James Bond-style mini-cameras hidden in a watch and a pen.
A woman born without limbs after her mother took thalidomide while pregnant won on Wednesday a landmark multi-million dollar settlement in her class action against drug firms - including Germany-based Grünenthal.
