News about doctors

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.
11 January 2014 16:33
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.
14 December 2013 13:55
'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.
13 December 2013 11:29
'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.
21 November 2013 15:02
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.
17 November 2013 16:27
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.
31 October 2013 14:36
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.
28 October 2013 17:57
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.
16 October 2013 16:23
Malala, Congolese doctor among Nobel Peace favourites Teenage Pakistani education activist Malala Yousafzai and a Congolese doctor dedicated to helping rape victims are the two most-hyped figures among pundits ahead of Friday's Nobel Peace Prize announcement.
10 October 2013 15:02
MSF pulls out of Somalia after 'extreme attacks' Medical aid agency Doctors Without Borders closed all its operations in war-torn Somalia on Wednesday, warning of growing insecurity, after 22 years of working in the Horn of Africa troublespot.
15 August 2013 12:29
Australian doctors call for ban on smacking kids Australian doctors Friday called for the smacking of children by parents to be made illegal, saying it was too easy to blur the line between reasonable discipline and abuse.
26 July 2013 13:01
Doctors urge access to Guantanamo hunger strikers More than 150 doctors from the United States and Britain have written to President Barack Obama urging him to grant independent medical care to hunger-striking Guantanamo detainees.
20 June 2013 16:50
Kosovo officials suspected of trafficking human organs from Kazakhstan Kosovo officials suspected of trafficking human organs from Kazakhstan
20 May 2013 19:17
Jackson death doctor had huge debts, trial hears Michael Jackson's doctor Conrad Murray was in dire financial straits when he was hired to care for the US superstar.
03 May 2013 10:04
Jackson doctor refuses to testify at AEG trial Michael Jackson's jailed former doctor refused Tuesday to testify at a trial in which the singer's mother is seeking massive damages from tour promoters she blames for hiring the medic.
03 April 2013 14:56
'Brazilian' could be pubic enemy No. 1 A trend for shaving, clipping or waxing pubic hair may encourage the spread of a skin virus.
19 March 2013 16:27
Doctors to decide if Pakistani girl to go abroad A team of senior Pakistani doctors flew to Peshawar on Wednesday to decide whether a 14-year-old child activist needs medical treatment abroad after she was shot in the head by the Talibanю
11 October 2012 11:30
Olympics: Chinese doctor reveals state-sponsored doping Chinese Olympians were subjected to a state-sponsored doping regime in the 1980s and 1990s, a retired chief medical supervisor revealed to Australian media on Friday.
27 July 2012 14:07
Kazakhstan-born doctor accused of $3.5 million fraud in U.S. Kazakhstan-born Boris Sachakov has tried to cheat Medicare insurance fund in the United States.
15 June 2012 16:24
Korean and Kazakhstan doctors exchanged experience in Almaty International experience exchange medical conference attended by Korean and Kazakhstan delegations completed in Almaty.
04 October 2011 17:08
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