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Where does the vaccine for Covid-19 stand?

May 11, 2025 • 10:30 AM

In the worldwide race for a vaccine to stop the coronavirus, the laboratory sprinting fastest is at Oxford University. Most other teams have had to start with small clinical trials of a few hundred participants to demonstrate safety. But scientists at the university's Jenner Institute had a head start on a vaccine, having proved in previous trials that similar inoculations, including one last year against an earlier coronavirus, were harmless to humans. That has enabled them to leap ahead and...

Latest Corona Developments in Germany

May 11, 2025 • 10:30 AM

On April 30th 2020, German Chancellor Angela Merkel presented newely adapted corona rules. First of all it was announced that the contact restrictions would be extended until May 10th in any case. Merkel also made it clear once again that there will be no major events before the end of August. According to the federal government, the ban on major events, which is valid until the end of August, refers to public festivals, major sporting events with spectators, major concerts, festivals,...

Covid-19 and Germany's Leadership to support neighbouring countries

May 11, 2025 • 10:30 AM

Over the past few weeks there has been widespread curiosity about the German health care system. Since the coronavirus outbreak, the infection curve in Germany has risen just as steeply as in Italy, and the measures it has imposed are quite similar to those elsewhere. Yet, its death rate is noticeably lower. Covid-19, has hit Germany with force: According to John Hopkins University, the country had more than 122,215 laboratory-confirmed infections by 11-04-2020, more than any other country...

Flu vaccination: penultimate wave was deadliest in 30 years

May 11, 2025 • 10:30 AM

The flu season starts again: time for at-risk patients to get vaccinated! This year, the health insurance companies are again taking over the more expensive quadruple vaccine in order to prevent a flu wave like two years ago. It was the deadliest in 30 years. No one can predict how much flu will spread, because the viruses are extremely changeable. The best time to get vaccinated is around October and November. The flu wave usually reaches its peak after the turn of the year. The flu pathogen...

Germany Private Health Insurance and Corona

May 11, 2025 • 10:30 AM

The number of corona infections in Germany is increasing every day - despite efforts by the health authorities to limit the growth. Despite the massive restrictions such as school closings and curfews, it can currently be assumed that the peak of infections has not yet been reached. Even if the course of an infection with Corona is usually more like that of a mild flu, there is still the question of coverage through an existing or planned private health insurance. Here are some possible...

Corona Crisis: Germany decides financial rescue package worth billions

May 11, 2025 • 10:30 AM

To mitigate the consequences of the corona crisis for businesses and citizens, the German federal cabinet has decided on an unprecedented aid package. A supplementary budget with new government debt of 156 billion euros is planned. According to the German Federal Finance Minister Olaf Scholz (SPD), this package has "an order of magnitude that has not yet been reached". The minister spoke of a necessary and correct step. On the one hand, the decline in economic output, which is expected,...

Germany and Coronavirus (COVID-19)

May 11, 2025 • 10:30 AM

As the corona virus COVID-19 spreads across Europe, medical patients with existing conditions are seeking more secure and safe treatment options than that which they would normally have sought. Often during treatment, a patient's immune system is compromised, which makes the threat of a rampart virus very concerning for those already undergoing medical care. Hygiene of clinics and effective procedures and isolation units are now more and more part of the equation when these patients look at...

The Social Phobia that Stops People Going to the Toilet

May 11, 2025 • 10:30 AM

Paruresis - colloquially, "bashful bladder syndrome" - is a psychological condition that prevents people from urinating when they need to. The difficulty usually occurs in public bathrooms, when sufferers have a feeling that others may be observing them. The worst sufferers may even find themselves unable to urinate for long periods of time in their own homes if others are in the house or apartment. The condition can be debilitating, preventing people from going out to socialize with friends,...

Study finds smoking e-cigarettes could cause cancer

May 11, 2025 • 10:30 AM

A recent study hints that e-cigarette smoke may contribute to lung and bladder cancer, as well as heart disease, in humans.

Using mice models for their study, scientists at the Department of Environmental Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, have proposed that e-cigarette smoking is carcinogenic. The study results also found that e-cigarette smokers are at a higher risk of developing lung and bladder cancers and heart diseases compared to non-smokers.

Smoking tobacco creates a...

Flu virus becomes more virulent in pregnant women

May 11, 2025 • 10:30 AM

When a woman is pregnant, her immune system is dampened to protect the unborn foetus. This is because the baby is recognised as a foreign being by the mother's immune system - the baby is genetically different to that of the mother.

Scientists at the Heinrich Pette Institute in Hamburg have shown in mice that the mother's suppressed immune system provides a unique opportunity for the influenza virus not only to infect the mother but to evolve into a more powerful strain.

"Pregnant women become...

High-salt diet linked to dementia in mice

May 11, 2025 • 10:30 AM

Scientists have discovered that a diet which is high in salt, can have major effects on the brain and in mice, can lead to dementia. The study, published in Nature Neuroscience, is the first to identify a link between the gut and the brain and that it is responsible for cognitive impairment.  This finding explores the possibility of preventing detrimental effects to the brain caused by an excess in salt intake. Dr. Costantino Iadecola, of the Feil Family Brain and Mind Research Institute at...

Breastfeeding rates increased by financial incentives

May 11, 2025 • 10:30 AM

Breastfeeding rates increase when new mothers are offered financial incentives. Research from the University of Sheffield and the University of Dundee reveals that when mothers are offered vouchers to breastfeed their babies, the low rates of breastfeeding are significantly increased.

The study looked at over 10,000 new mothers in England, aged 16-44, who were offered £40 on five separate occasions if their child received breastmilk at two days, ten days, six weeks, three months and six months...

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Both private Health Insurance in Germany and public insurance, is often complicated to navigate, not to mention expensive. As an expat, you are required to navigate this landscape within weeks of arriving, so check our FAQ on PKV. For our guide on resources and access to agents who can give you a competitive quote, try our PKV Cost comparison tool.

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