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 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 The University Clinic in Mannheim has massively reduced its surgery schedule after an anonymous report flagged up hygiene problems with its equipment, including dirty scalpels. https://www.thelocal.de/20141014/dirty-scalpels-slow-down-university-clinic-mannheim-karlsruhe Tue, 14 Oct 2014 11:24:00 +0200 dirty-scalpels-slow-down-university-clinic-mannheim-karlsruhe 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. https://www.thelocal.de/20140815/organ-donation-hits-all-time-low Fri, 15 Aug 2014 14:49:00 +0200 organ-donation-hits-all-time-low Germany is the world’s leader in penis enlargements, with five times as many people in the country undergoing the procedure than anywhere else in the world. Globally, Germany carries out the fourth highest amount of cosmetic surgery operations. https://www.thelocal.de/20140731/germany-tops-penis-enlargement-table Thu, 31 Jul 2014 18:54:00 +0200 germany-tops-penis-enlargement-table 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. https://www.thelocal.de/20121018/45641 Thu, 18 Oct 2012 18:07:00 +0200 45641 An elderly British woman died after a German surgeon working as a locum botched an operation on her hip, severing an artery, British media reported on Wednesday. https://www.thelocal.de/20100317/25935 Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:30:00 +0100 25935 Doctors in Germany have successfully implanted the world's smallest artificial heart pump, billed as more effective and unobtrusive than earlier devices, a hospital in Heidelberg said. https://www.thelocal.de/20090818/21311 Tue, 18 Aug 2009 09:01:00 +0200 21311