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Olympians back California plan for disclosures on doctors

OlympianswhowereabusedbyformerUSAGymnasticsteamdoctorLarryNassarspokeinsupportoflegislationMondaythatwouldmakeCaliforniathefirststatetorequiredoctorstotelltheir

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2 doctors in Indian capital terminated for declaring living baby dead

TheservicesoftwodoctorsataleadingprivatehospitalinIndiancapitalcityNewDelhiwereterminatedforincorrectlydeclarednewlyborntwins"dead",whileoneofthemwasalive,offic

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Indian surgeons separate twins joined at the head

SurgeonsintheIndiancapital,Delhi,haveseparatedtwinboyswhowereconjoinedatthetopsoftheirheads.Two-year-oldJagaandKaliaunderwent16hoursofsurgery,andarenowintheinte

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Thousands of patients stranded in Sri Lanka as doctors strike

Sri Lanka doctors attached to the Government Medical Officers Association (GMOA), on Thursday launched an islandwide strike, protesting against the violent clashes which erupted between police and students on Wednesday.

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Thousands of patients stranded in Sri Lanka as doctors strike

ByAPDwriterJamilaHusainCOLOMBO,June22(APD)-SriLankadoctorsattachedtotheGovernmentMedicalOfficersAssociation(GMOA),onThursdaylaunchedanislandwidestrike,protestin

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Polish doctors conduct major face transplantation surgery

Doctors from the Cancer Center in Gliwice, Poland, have recently conducted a major face transplantation surgery.

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Medical career losing luster for top students

Medical degrees are gradually losing appeal among collage candidates on the Chinese mainland, with none of the 36 top scorers in this year's national college entrance examination (gaokao) is willing to be a doctor, according to a thepaper.cn survey.

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China targets family doctor services for all

China is planning to extend family doctor services to the entire population by 2020 and ensure more convenient health services for residents who have signed contracts with family doctors.

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Hong Kong doctors get lessons in how to be more welcoming to gay patients

Aids concern group offers training after survey reveals a fifth of homosexual men avoid seeing a GP

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Australian doctors "over medicate" hyperactive children: health experts

​Australian doctors are over medicating children diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), leading professionals say.

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Family doctors the future of China's healthcare system

​Getting medical treatment has become much more convenient for Wei Xianfang since she joined a family doctor program.

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Obstetricians leaving Hong Kong public hospitals for private sector in droves, with 1 in 10 making switch last year alone

​Mass exodus of senior doctors from public hospitals in last fiscal year, partly because of a wave of job vacancies in private sector hospitals

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Australian police raid homes linked to Islamic State "doctor"

Australian counter-terrorism police have conducted raids on two homes with suspected links to a supposed doctor who appeared in an Islamic State (IS) propaganda video last year, local media reported on Monday.

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Lawsuit renews dilemma over privacy of AIDS patients

​To tell or not to tell. The old dilemma of whether or not doctors should disclose HIV status to spouses has been renewed after a Chinese man filed a lawsuit against a hospital for failing to inform him of his wife's illness.

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Chinese doctors: What we need is respect and understanding

Frustration, misunderstanding and dissatisfaction are the new characteristics of doctor-patient relations in China, often resulting in violence.

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Boy's death reflects lack of qualified village doctors in China

The tragic death of an 11-year-old boy at the hands of an unlicensed village doctor earlier this week has once again brought into spotlight the lack of qualified doctors in rural China.