Sleep syndrome: No relocation for Kalachi villagers
Akim (Governor) of Akmola Oblast Kosman Aitmkhambetov has dispelled rumours of plans to relocate Kalachi villagers.
Careless surgery brings child to disability
For 10 y.o. Damira Esskendirova a simple surgery instead of brining relief turned into a constant pain and possible permanent disability due to the doctor’s carelessness.
What is behind anti-vaccination movements in Kazakhstan?
Every day there are more and more parents refusing to get their children vaccinated for religious reasons.
7 thousand tests cannot explain sleep syndrome
7 thousands tests have been made in Kalachi village in Akmola Oblast over the past year.
Medical blunder: baby girl almost buried alive
Medical blunder of the Mendykary Central Hospital led sorrowful parents to almost bury their baby girl alive.
Preliminary findings: Kazakhstan's sleep syndrome not infectious
The team of Kazakhstani scientists working in Kalachi village on the mysterious sleep syndrome has published their preliminary statement.
What is the cause of sleep syndrome in Kalachi?
A team of finest ecologists, virologists and toxicologists arrived to the Kalachi village of Akmola Oblast to determine the cause of the mysterious sleep syndrome that has affected more than 30 villagers.
Sleep syndrome: countermeasures and new patients
While the Ministry of Healthcare is taking measures concerning the sleep syndrome, there are more cases reported.
TV's 'Dr House' helps solve real-life medical mystery
For a year, the patient suffered from a range of worsening symptoms that left doctors stumped.
No Grimm Brother's Tale: Sleep syndrome in Akmola Oblast
It is certainly not a Brothers Grimm’s fairy tail, but a reality of Kalachi village in Akmola Oblast where people have started falling asleep for no obvious reason.
Canadian blogs of battle to save baby as wife dies
A Canadian whose brain-dead pregnant wife is being kept on life support until the birth of their baby is giving the public a glimpse of his very personal tragedy.
Michael Jackson doctor's conviction upheld
A California appeals court unanimously upheld Wednesday the involuntary manslaughter conviction of Michael Jackson's former doctor, saying there was evidence of his guilt in the star's 2009 death.
Man's cockroach-in-the-ear agony Down Under
A man in Australia endured a painful hospital visit after a large cockroach burrowed into his ear and his efforts to suck it out with a vacuum cleaner failed.
Migraine secret of Wagner's opera
Repetitive migraines lie at the heart of "Siegfried," the second part of Richard Wagner's "Ring" trilogy of operas, German neurologists suggest.
'Time to die,' German clock told hospital patient
Doctors at a British hospital were startled when an upset patient told them that the clock in his ward had announced his time was up, the British Medical Journal (BMJ) reported on Thursday.
'Dead' baby wakes at China funeral parlour before cremation
A Chinese baby boy who had been declared dead was saved from being cremated alive when he started crying at a funeral parlour, media reported Thursday.
British medics could face jail for patient neglect
British doctors and nurses who neglect their patients could be jailed under government proposals announced Saturday, in the wake of a scandal at a hospital where hundreds died after receiving appalling care.
Michael Jackson 'still loves me," says freed doctor
Michael Jackson's former doctor Conrad Murray said Wednesday that the late pop icon still loves him, and would be appalled by fans who attack him over the star's 2009 death.
China doctors protest after murder by patient: media
Chinese hospital staff protested on Monday after a patient killed one doctor and wounded two more, local media said, in the latest violence to hit the country's overburdened medical sector.
MSF denounces 'unprecedented' violence in C. Africa
Doctors Without Borders (MSF) on Wednesday denounced the "unprecedented" violence in the Central African Republic, urging all sides to respect civilian safety and calling for urgent international aid.
