Shocked by premium hikes of as much as 50 percent, many Germans with private health insurance are seeking to switch to a national health plan, Der Spiegel reported.

Researchers from Schillerhöhe Hospital in Germany have found that sniffer dogs can reliably detect lung cancer in its early stage.

Researchers at the Heidelberg-based Max Planck Institute have developed new software that can interpret the vast network of brain cells swiftly and accurately.

A team of surgeons in Sweden have carried out the world’s first synthetic organ transplant, providing a cancer patient with a new windpipe using his own stem cells.

The German Bundestag faced a complex matter of conscience Thursday as it voted in favor of allowing the pre-implantation genetic diagnosis of embryos, Deutsche Welle reports.

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Neurological Research in Cologne have decoded a key mechanism through which insulin in the brain controls the body's energy balance.

A life-threatening form of the bacteria E. coli has spread across much of Germany, with scores of patients seriously ill in hospital.

The cannabis drug Sativex, sometimes referred to as medical marihuana, has been recommended for approval in the six other European countries targeted by GW Pharmaceuticals Plc and Spanish partner Almirall.

For over a year, a tiger named Girl at a zoo in the eastern German city of Halle has suffered from hip pains. In unprecedented operation, the tiger received an artificial hip.

Germany's leading medical association called on the nation's pharmaceutical companies to refrain from selling a drug used in lethal injections to the United States.

German pharmaceutical giant Bayer said it was developing a drug to combat double chins that it says could generate $300 million a year in sales, reports The Local.

A new drug based on a compound produced by the human body appears to block fusion peptides and halt an early stage of HIV infection by thwarting interaction between the virus and host cells, German scientists say.

Three patients who received artificial hearts at the Hannover Medical School (MHH) five years ago have broken a European survival rate record, the online newspaper The Local reported Wednesday.

Bavarian doctors began a two-day strike to air their concerns about the German government's policies. They  will refuse to see patients during that time.

A German attempt to develop a drug to help boost women’s sex drive has been knocked back by the US Food and Drug Administration, which said there was no evidence to show it was effective or safe.

The theories of two of the past century’s most prominent psychiatrists, Bruno Bettelheim and Sigmund Freud, have led to wrong treatment of children with autism, advocates have charged.

German doctors are restoring partial sight to blind people by grafting microchips covered with photocells onto the backs of their eyes in a major medical breakthrough, news magazine Der Spiegel reported on Saturday.

German health insurers are under attack for suggesting that patients bear the cost of a massive immunization against swine flu. The winners are – who else – the pharmaceutical companies.

The swine flu scare has thrown an Austrian scientist into the limelight this week as his creation - "Tamiflu" - has become the global medication of choice with which to fight the disease.