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A man in China has been hit by dizziness, headaches and nausea nearly 15 years after he ate raw snake gallbladders and drank medicinal wine soaked in raw snake skin. …
Catherine, the Princess of Wales, has revealed that she is receiving a preventative course of chemotherapy for an unspecified type of cancer. In a video statement issued on Friday, Catherine said …
A family doctor who helped create an anti-Black racism course for health professionals says she hopes participants will “unlearn” long-standing discriminatory practices that contribute to inequitable care for a vulnerable group. …
A Prince Rupert woman says emergency room closures plaguing the British Columbia port city forced her to make an “impossible” choice when her husband had a severe epileptic seizure early Monday …
Richard Simmons has been diagnosed with skin cancer. The reclusive fitness guru revealed the news in a lengthy statement on Tuesday, two days after he posted a concerning message about …
Following a pivotal year in the movement to discard the term “excited delirium,” momentum is building in Colorado and several other states to ban the discredited medical diagnosis from death …
Kris Koehler could tell something was wrong in the summer of 2013, when he started suffering unexplained abdominal pain and his bowels behaved differently. The Fort Collins resident’s doctor couldn’t …
There’s plenty of food in Sudan’s most populous state, says Jill Lawler. People just can’t afford it. Lawler, chief of field operations and emergency for UNICEF in Sudan, has just …
South Korea’s trainee doctors have asked the International Labor Union to intervene in their stand-off with the government, claiming the back-to-work orders imposed on them constitutes a breach of international …