Hong Kong may soon suffer from a medical staff shortage amid an “increasing loss of public sector medical staff due to emigration,” Henry Fan, the chairman of Hong Kong’s government-run Hospital Authority, warned in an interview with the Hang Seng University of Hong Kong published Friday.
Swedish investigators are hunting a Dr Hammad Al-Saaid after he was alleged to be the ringleader in a false results corona testing scam.
The United Doctors of Venezuela, a non-governmental organization representing anti-socialist health workers, accused the socialist regime on Monday of fabricating its Chinese coronavirus statistics, which remain at press time suspiciously lower than those of its neighbors.
Doctors recently brought a lost hiker back to life after he was rescued from whiteout conditions on Washington’s Mount Rainier.
Hundreds of highly qualified doctors are leaving Lebanon following some of the most turbulent years in the country’s history, undermining its reputation as the medical capital of the Middle East.
Twitter has restricted Donald Trump Jr.’s account after he shared a viral video of Monday’s Capitol Hill press conference with America’s Frontline Doctors, asserting that he violated the policy “on spreading misleading and potentially harmful information related to COVID-19.”
Dr. Dan Erickson, owner of Accelerated Urgent Care, spoke at Monday’s “White Coat Summit” on Capitol Hill about the nation’s reponse to the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic, claiming, “99.8 percent of people get through this with little to no progressive or significant disease.”
American medical school graduates are asking President Trump to expand his executive order to halt the H-1B and J-1 visa programs that import thousands of foreign doctors every year — taking jobs from qualified Americans who are unmatched for residencies.
The media is reporting that “health experts” signed an open letter supporting the protests that have, in many American cities, devolved into violent riots that have destroyed neighborhoods and businesses, because “white supremacy is a public health issue” that has contributed to the spread of the coronavirus.
The House Democrats’ next coronavirus bill will help centralize the nation’s healthcare system by giving hospital chains more power to import many more doctors from overseas, say critics.
Authorities have fined Albanian doctors and nurses who came to Italy to help fight the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak for throwing a party in their hotel room following the end of their mission.
Doctors and nurses in South Africa protested the arrival of over 200 Cuban slave doctors to the country this week after reports surfaced indicating the country would have to pay the Communist regime far more than it would have if it had just hired local doctors.
The huge DACA amnesty should be preserved because it provides 27,000 healthcare workers to combat coronavirus, say pro-migration groups.
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) is threatening doctors who over-prescribe chloroquine, a proven malaria drug that President Trump has touted as potentially effective in combating coronavirus, by demanding they turn in any colleagues who do.
Just as the coronavirus epidemic went nationwide, 1,200 newly graduated American doctors were left on the sidelines because they were denied a place in the limited number of medical residencies for 2020.
Doctors in the Nigerian capital of Abuja went on strike this week to demand two months back payment as Chinese coronavirus cases in Africa’s most populous country begin to rise.
A Connecticut pizza shop is pitching in to help the community during the coronavirus outbreak by donating pies to the doctors and nurses fighting the outbreak at a local hospital.
As America confronts the coronavirus (COVID-19), we might ask: Who’s more valuable: first responders or private-equity managers? Which do we need more of right now: doctors and nurses or stock traders and their algorithms? Which is more essential: hospitals or hedge funds?
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) released letters from his doctors on Monday that concluded the presidential hopeful is “in good health currently.”
Lawyers in Pakistan announced a nationwide strike on Friday to protest the arrest of colleagues who went on a deadly rampage at the Punjab Institution of Cardiology (PIC) in Lahore on Wednesday, killing several patients in the process.
A mob of two hundred lawyers attacked the Punjab Institute of Cardiology (PIC) in Lahore, Pakistan on Wednesday, causing at least 12 deaths, several of them critical care patients whose treatments were interrupted by the riot.
A new cancer vaccine has given researchers hope after it removed cancer cells in a patient with breast cancer.
An ICU nurse went beyond the call of duty to save the life of a little boy this summer in Wisconsin.
A young woman has survived after reportedly falling 80 feet from her apartment balcony in the northeastern Mexican state of Nuevo Leon on Saturday.
A former car mechanic in Cleveland, Ohio, who recently became a doctor is using his story to encourage black men to join the medical field.
Migration Watch UK has warned that it would be “irresponsible” and “damaging” to stop charging foreigners to use the National Health Service as it would result in a “huge inflow of health tourists”. On Tuesday, an overwhelming majority of delegates
Over 100 Democrats introduced their “Medicare for All” proposal on Feb. 27. It takes away private health insurance — and that’s just the beginning.
Dozens of doctors flooded Venezuela’s border bridge with Colombia on Sunday urging the Maduro regime to stop blocking the entry of humanitarian aid into the crisis-stricken country.
California doctors, hospitals and insurers announced on Monday the formation of a coalition to fight California Democrats’ promise to pass a $400-billion-per-year single-payer health care plan.
A court in Nairobi, Kenya, ruled against local doctors Wednesday suing the government for importing 100 doctors from Cuba to take jobs that medical professionals in the country say rightfully belong to Kenyan citizens.
London hospitals will soon replace doctors and nurses with artificial intelligence for various medical tasks, according to a report.
Medical organizations in Kenya condemned a government plan Monday to import doctors from Cuba to address the nation’s vast shortage of medical professionals, citing that more than one thousand ready-to-work Kenyan doctors are still unemployed in the country.
A report from the Los Angeles Times is highlighting the diminishing amount of male doctors in the gynecology field.
TEL AVIV – Unlike their U.S. counterparts, Israeli doctors are not required to be vaccinated against influenza and in cases where they do receive the flu shot, they are forbidden from displaying a pin advertising that fact to patients, The Jerusalem Post reported on Wednesday.
Robot surgeons are making it difficult for junior doctors to learn how to perform operations, according to a report.
Five medical doctors and four pro-migrant activists have been indicted on charges relating to the issuance of fake medical certificates to asylum seekers to keep them in France.
The government of Brazil has blocked the few Cuban doctors who have successfully sued for full salaries from Brasilia from practicing medicine without going through medical certifications in Brazil, a luxury these doctors say they cannot afford.
Brazil’s Health Minister told reporters last week that his nation’s judiciary has seen “around 150” lawsuits by Cuban doctors forced to work for negligible salaries in Brazil, the pawn’s in an elaborate for-profit enterprise that nets the communist Castro regime millions of dollars a year.
TEL AVIV – Israeli doctors have cured a Palestinian man from Gaza suffering from a rare syndrome known as “tree man disease” in which bark-like lesions covered his hands.
Doctors at Jerusalem’s Hadassah Medical Center have developed a new method to monitor tumors without injecting patients with radioactive substances or exposing them to ionizing radiation.
