https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Germany in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Germany's Health Minister Monday pushed an initiative to boost the availability of transplant organs by making everyone a potential donor after death unless they have expressly opted out. https://www.thelocal.de/20190401/germany-debates-changing-to-opt-out-organ-donation-system Mon, 01 Apr 2019 15:57:41 +0200 germany-debates-changing-to-opt-out-organ-donation-system An organ donation scandal that rocked Germany several years ago is still having ripple effects as too few people are signing up to become donors to meet medical needs. https://www.thelocal.de/20161103/germany-still-has-too-few-organ-donors-after-scandal Thu, 03 Nov 2016 16:14:08 +0100 germany-still-has-too-few-organ-donors-after-scandal The German Medical Association is investigating an incident where surgeons began to operate on a north German man who was not completely brain dead. https://www.thelocal.de/20150112/man-found-not-quite-brain-dead-during-operation Mon, 12 Jan 2015 09:44:00 +0100 man-found-not-quite-brain-dead-during-operation New rules to encourage people to donate their organs take effect on Thursday, yet interest has been stagnant since the start of the year – and two scandals surrounding the corrupt allocation of donated organs will not have helped. https://www.thelocal.de/20121101/45909 Thu, 01 Nov 2012 12:04:00 +0100 45909 An investigation into people waiting for donated livers being pushed up the waiting list has been launched at a Munich clinic following scandals in two other German hospitals. https://www.thelocal.de/20121001/45299 Mon, 01 Oct 2012 18:46:00 +0200 45299 A boy with cystic fibrosis is starting a new life after German doctors performed the country’s first double living lung transplant, giving him a lung from each of his mother and father. https://www.thelocal.de/20120913/44941 Thu, 13 Sep 2012 11:30:00 +0200 44941 The donor organ waiting list scandal unfolding in a German hospital, where it seem doctors changed medical records to push patients up the lists, could date back nearly 20 years, it emerged on Monday. https://www.thelocal.de/20120730/44059 Mon, 30 Jul 2012 17:48:00 +0200 44059 A leading German doctor is under investigation for allegedly changing medical records to make people appear sicker than they were – bumping them to the top of organ transplant lists ahead of desperately ill people. https://www.thelocal.de/20120720/43869 Fri, 20 Jul 2012 12:51:00 +0200 43869 Everyone living in Germany will be asked this year, and then at regular intervals, whether they want to donate organs after their death. Parliament voted on Friday in favour of a new law designed to encourage people to consider donation. https://www.thelocal.de/20120525/42759 Fri, 25 May 2012 16:37:00 +0200 42759 In an exceptionally emotional debate, characterized by unusual unity across party lines, the German parliament took a first step Thursday toward approving an organ donation law. https://www.thelocal.de/20120322/41501 Thu, 22 Mar 2012 14:34:00 +0100 41501 Every person in Germany would be actively asked if they want to be an organ donor under plans being drafted by lawmakers to boost the rate of donation. https://www.thelocal.de/20110627/35913 Mon, 27 Jun 2011 14:17:00 +0200 35913 Frank-Walter Steinmeier, parliamentary group leader for the Social Democratic Party, wants the law changed so that every German is asked once in their lives whether they would be prepared to donate their organs after they die. https://www.thelocal.de/20110417/34447 Sun, 17 Apr 2011 14:07:00 +0200 34447