Emergency units at all hospitals in South Korea except for one, on Thursday (Feb 22) were on red alert as more than 8,000 trainee doctors continued their protest against the government’s proposed reforms to boost the country’s healthcare sector.

Explained: Proposed reforms that have led South Korea’s doctors to walk out

In the United States, Nikki Haley, a Republican Presidential hopeful has courted controversy by stating that she believes frozen embryos created through in vitro fertilisation (IVF) were babies.

WION Explains: The 'embryos are babies' debate and how it will affect 2024 US Presidential elections

In a rare incident, a man from Florida, United States, got 150 live bugs removed from his nose, which were bugging him for months. The doctors in Jacksonville removed 150 live bugs, which were in the larva stage, and were infesting his nose, as reported by First Coast News.

Doctors remove 150 live bugs from man's nose in Florida

The General Medical Council (GMC), the UK's oldest medical regulatory body, is set to issue a formal apology to gay doctors who faced discrimination due to their sexual orientation through the years.

UK medical regulator set to say 'sorry' to gay doctors for past discrimination

In a shocking incident, a 73-year-old man in Australia was admitted to the hospital with the urgent need to undergo urethra surgery after he jammed three button-style batteries into his penis to attain “sexual gratification”.

Man in Australia jams batteries into his penis for 'sexual gratification', leaves doctors baffled

In a unique medical case, the doctors came across a 34-year-old patient, identified as Davey Bauer, whose lungs were infected badly with a drug-resistant strain of bacteria and they could not be changed with a fresh pair of lungs in a single move.

Bizarre operation: Doctors save a man's life with breast implants. Here's what happened

Doctors pulled out a spider from the ear of a 64-year-old woman in Taiwan. After struggling with a strange sensation in her left ear with incessant clicking and rustling sounds, a woman visited an ear, nose and throat clinic.

Watch | Doctors find a spider in the ear of 64-year-old woman in Taiwan

Doctors in India's northwestern state of Punjab were shocked when they opened up a man complaining of nausea, fever and severe stomachache on finding earphones, nuts and bolts, lockets and screws in his stomach.

India: Doctors in Punjab remove earphones, screws and other objects from man’s stomach

A degenerative disease that slowly destroys the mind, Alzheimer's affects millions around the globe. On World Alzheimer's Day, WION talks to Brain & Spine Surgeon Dr Bharat Subramanya to get you everything you need to know about the disease.

World Alzheimer's Day 2023: 'Never too early, never too late'

The National Medical Commission (NMC) has achieved a milestone by securing the coveted World Federation for Medical Education (WFME) recognition status for a decade.

Indian medical graduates can now practice in US, Canada and Australia. Here's how

Doctors in England are set to stage the biggest walkout in NHS history. Senior doctors and Junior doctors in England are staging their first joint strike. The strike scheduled by Consultants is expected to last two days whilst the one with Junior doctors is scheduled for three days.

NHS Strike: Doctors in England to stage the biggest walkout in NHS' history

For the first time in the history of the NHS, junior physicians and consultants in England will walk out on the same days in a dramatic escalation of their contentious wage dispute with the government. The British Medical Association attributed the decision to organize stoppages involving both categories of medical professionals to ministers' failure to bargain over doctors' salaries.

UK: Junior and senior doctors to strike together for the first time in NHS history

Female surgeons perform better than their male counterparts, two recent studies published in JAMA Surgery have found. In a review of millions of procedures in Canada and Sweden, the researchers found that patients treated by female surgeons were better off, 90 days to one year after the surgery.

Female surgeons are better than male counterparts, studies show

A new study has said that a majority of care workers who were sponsored for skilled work visas in the UK in 2022 came from non-EU countries, with maximum coming from India and just one per cent from the EU countries.

Most of the new doctors and nurses in UK came from India, says study

A complicated and unusual surgery, which has been dubbed as a "miracle", was carried out by doctors on a 12-year-boy during which they reattached his head back to his neck after he got involved in an accident with a car while riding a bicycle, reported The Times of Israel.

Miracle surgery | Doctors in Israel join back boy's head detached in an accident

The doctors in Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore were left flabbergasted after they discovered an eight-legged octopus stuck inside the oesophagus (food pipe) of a 55-year-old man.

Doctors discover ‘half-eaten’ octopus stuck inside throat of man in Singapore

South Korea is undergoing a unique crisis. There is a huge shortage of paediatricians, with the majority leaving their practice thinking the field has no future.

Doctors in South Korea are giving up on paediatrics, sparking major health concern. Know why

A Thai doctor endorsing a dubious diabetes treatment, a Filipino physician touting crotch-enhancing underwear, a US doctor sparking off anti-vaccine conspiracies -- they are all victims of identity theft plaguing health professionals.

'Significant threat': Around world, doctors battle impersonators

According to reports, UK NHS could have 12,500 extra doctors and nurses a year by 2028 to fill staffing shortages. The number of places in medical schools will rise from 7,500 to 10,000 by 2028 and could reach 15,000 by 2031 as a result of the NHS’s first long-term workforce plan.

UK NHS to have 12,500 extra doctors and nurses a year: Reports

Walking for 30 minutes a day and practising yoga can help cancer survivors improve their odds of survival as well as lower the risk of it spreading elsewhere, a new research study has shown.

Doctors should prescribe yoga to cancer patients to stop disease from spreading: Study

Is there a way to deliver prescription drugs to hard-to-reach places inside the human body? Medical science could soon allow doctors to deploy tiny, self-propelled ‘microrobots’ to do the job.

Microrobots, smaller than human hair, could soon be used to treat humans

Medical practitioners and providers paid $26.8 billion over the past decade to settle federal allegations including fraud, bribery and patient harm, a Reuters investigation found.

How doctors buy their way out of trouble

The union representing junior doctors in UK has announced a fresh 72-hour walkout next month after negotiations with ministers failed to resolve their pay dispute. The British Medical Association (BMA) said they will strike in England from 14-17 June.

UK: Junior doctors' union announces new three-day strike in June

A new bill that would impose five years of mandatory service on Nigeria’s medical graduates is being opposed by the doctors union and civil society. The bill, which is aimed to stop the migration of doctors to the UK and the US, passed its second reading in the lower house of the Nigerian parliament last month.

Nigeria's doctors fume over five years of mandatory service

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