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A Saudi doctor went on trial on murder charges Monday over the car-ramming attack on a Christmas market in a German city.

Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID), Canada’s preferred euphemism for euthanasia, has become so popular practitioners struggle to meet demand.

President Donald Trump announced a new health technology program that would “easily” allow patients to share their records from “one doctor to another,” adding that it will also “make it simple” for patients to access their health records.

Microsoft has developed an AI diagnostic tool that it claims can diagnose diseases with significantly higher accuracy and lower costs compared to human physicians.

A German palliative care doctor has been accused of killing at least 15 of his patients and is suspected in at least 95 more cases.

A 31-year-old functionally blind Irishman is able to see for the first time in about 13 years thanks to a groundbreaking special treatment.

An Indian American doctor who reportedly kept two illegal aliens as servants in her home on low pay — somewhere between $3,000 and $7,200 per year — has permanently lost her medical license.

The former head of the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata, India, allegedly sold dead bodies and biomedical waste.

Doctors in India are considering upgrading their protests to a national strike, shutting down all but essential medical services on Saturday.

Doctors throughout India launched a strike on Monday after a student doctor in Kolkata was found dead at the government-run hospital, apparently raped and murdered at her workplace.

A newly proposed ethics rule regarding microaggressions by the Oregon Medical Board (OMB) could leave doctors in the state without medical licenses.

Doctors in Oregon are reportedly seeing a rise in pregnant women using fentanyl, which is ultimately causing newborns to begin their lives struggling with withdrawal symptoms.

Supreme Court justices appeared split during oral arguments on Wednesday in a case surrounding the Biden administration’s attempt to require emergency room doctors to perform abortions under the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act of 1986 (EMTALA).

The first-of-its-kind “Med Ed” bill is designed to combat abortion misinformation and provide guidance to healthcare workers.

About 10,000 trainee doctors in South Korea entered their second month of a nationwide strike in late March, forcing hospitals into “emergency mode” and shutting down critical sectors, including emergency wards, Korean news agencies confirmed Wednesday and Thursday.

The Interior Ministry of South Korea confirmed that it “intends to take administrative action” against thousands of striking doctors.

Police in South Korea executed raids on the Seoul and Gangwon Province offices of the Korean Medical Association (KMA) on Friday as part of the government’s response to an ongoing nationwide strike by trainee doctors that has devastated hospitals’ ability to sustain a functional healthcare system.

South Korea filed its first legal complaint against striking doctors on the grounds that the doctors were engaging in criminal behavior.

Some major hospitals in South Korea have canceled as many as 50 percent of scheduled surgeries between Tuesday and Friday as a result of a massive health worker walkout in which nearly 80 percent of trainee doctors have tendered resignations to their employers.

The South Korean healthcare system was paralyzed on Tuesday by a doctor’s strike, forcing delays in scheduled surgeries and raising public anxiety that essential hospital services will be unavailable.

A new study claims that Google’s advanced AI chatbot has demonstrated superior diagnostic abilities and empathy compared to board-certified primary-care physicians in simulated medical scenarios.

The High Court also agreed to hear the case in April, which surrounds the Biden administration’s attempt to require emergency room doctors to perform abortions under its new interpretation of Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act of 1986 (EMTALA). 

In a recent test, ChatGPT-4, the latest version of OpenAI’s popular AI chatbot, showed a significant failure to diagnose medical conditions in children accurately. 

The Biden administration cannot force emergency room doctors in Texas to perform abortions, a federal appeals court ruled on Tuesday.

Thousands of doctors walked off the job on Wednesday, the start of a six-day strike that was set to be the longest in the history of the NHS.

Forward Health is launching the “CarePod,” a self-contained, AI-powered doctor’s office that people can access in malls and office buildings.

President Joe Biden’s Department of Justice is asking the Supreme Court to reverse a lower court decision halting two U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) actions that loosened restrictions around mifepristone, the first pill used in a two-drug chemical abortion regimen.

One of the nation’s most influential medical organizations wrote an op-ed in The Washington Post calling for abortion with no restrictions. 

A federal appeals court issued an order on Wednesday halting two U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) actions which loosened restrictions around mifepristone, the first pill used in a two-drug chemical abortion regimen.

Tens of thousands of doctors in England walked off the job Friday, as their pay dispute with the government looks to continue.

A federal judge issued a preliminary injunction this week, blocking Idaho from acting if a medical provider refers a woman to abortion services in other states. 

The alleged attacker who fatally shot Memphis surgeon Dr. Benjamin Mauck in an exam room Tuesday has been identified and police indicate the assailant used a handgun.

The world’s biggest kidney stone is getting a lot of attention after doctors removed it from a patient in Sri Lanka on June 1.

A baby received “the smallest pacemaker in world” to help him recover from a dangerous heart condition, CBS News Philadelphia reported.

The board reprimanded and fined a doctor who publicly spoke about performing an abortion on a 10-year-old Ohio rape victim last year.

A new Florida law allows healthcare workers to exercise “conscience-based objections” based on sincerely held religious, moral, or ethical beliefs.