Influenza and whooping cough: Vaccinations for pregnant women
For years now, we have been offering our pregnant patients the annual vaccination against seasonal flu (influenza).The flu vaccination is explicitly recommended for expectant mothers from the 2nd trimester of pregnancy. We have now received the first shipment of the vaccine and with [read more...]
Practice Dr. med. Berit Deiters
Big news: Since July 1 of this year, Dr. Deiters has taken over the practice from Mr. Dostal. However, Mr. Dostal remains present in the daily practice routine, has consultation hours on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons and performs the outpatient surgeries [read more...]
Corona: Office hours are on!
It's been months now that the beautiful picture with the rainbow fell into our hands in the evening while cleaning up the waiting room. Cheerful, colorful, a bit chaotic - clearly, this goes into our art-in-waiting-room gallery. Who would have [read more...]
Early cancer detection: New regulations from 2020 onwards
Since 2020, new legal provisions for the early detection of cervical cancer have been in force. The most important change affects patients aged 35 and over with statutory health insurance, who are now offered regular testing for human papillomavirus as part of cancer screening. The HPV test is performed with the conventional cytological smear from the [read more...]
Internal training: Vaginal infections
Today we had another of our internal training sessions, for which our female doctors kindly make themselves available on a regular basis. Topic: vaginal infections. Complaints that indicate an infection in the intimate area are a frequent reason for visiting the [read more...]
Prenatal DNA test: health insurance coverage in risk cases
The prenatal DNA test for the early detection of a trisomy (e.g. Down syndrome/trisomy 21) has been available in Germany since 2012.There has been a discussion about coverage of costs by statutory health insurers for almost as long.The examination of the issue took a while, but now it is [read more...]
The Mother's Passport Booklet: An obituary
The maternity passport was introduced in Germany in 1961. For almost 60 years now, the small light blue booklet has been in existence, in which the most important examination results of maternity care are entered. From time to time, there have been one or two innovations, but [read more...]
Gynefix copper chain: Training for the practice team
In our practice, we place coils very frequently. The absolute front-runner is the copper chain. Demand has been increasing for years. Especially among young women who have not yet had children, there is great interest in hormone-free contraception with the Gynefix copper chain. [read more...]