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Singapore: attracting foreign doctors thanks to the policy
More and more foreign doctors come to work in Singapore hospitals because the country has an attractive support policy. There are no exact statistics yet, but the hospit…
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Scanning the brain can help diagnose Alzheimer's early
A study reported on Dec. 21 showed that brain scan techniques help identify brain deposits that are linked to Alzheimer's disease in people with mild amnesia.
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Nervous system disorder is the cause of type 1 diabetes?
So far, doctors have confirmed that the cause of type 1 diabetes is because pancreatic cells that produce insulin fail after the immune system is working poorly.
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Hands after 28 years
Spanish doctors have successfully implanted two hands for a 47-year-old woman. This patient, Alba, from Castellón, was amputated in an explosion that occurred 28 years a…
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China: Facial surgery for 'elephants'
After nearly 8 hours of surgery, on 11-12 Chinese doctors removed 22 tumors on the face of Mr. Ou Guifeng (22 years old, from Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region), who is k…
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VN: nearly 2,000 newborn babies suffer from cleft lip and palate every year
Associate Professor-Doctor Trinh Dinh Hai, Director of the Central Institute of Odonto-Stomatology said that at present, there are nearly 2,000 newly born babies sufferi…
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Sudden death in young children is related to abnormalities in the brain
Sudden death in a nursing child (MSN) usually occurs in children 2 to 4 months of age. The reason may be that there is an abnormality in the part of the brain that direc…
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Using high frequency radio waves to treat chronic pain
The doctor uses a needle into the nerve to treat and transmits an energy source to relieve the patient's pain. Within 6-24 months, the patient no longer has multiple att…
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Boy 'pregnant' in stomach
In the stomach of a boy who was just born at the Hernan Henriquez Hospital in Temuco, southern Chile, doctors discovered a fetus with limbs and spinal cord. But this fet…
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China: saving a baby's life
With the care of the medical doctors, a Chinese infant with a rare birth defect called sirenomelia or
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Useless antibiotics with most cases of bronchitis
Most people with bronchitis are prescribed at least one antibiotic when they visit a doctor's office. But according to a recent study, antibiotics have no effect on most…
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Cough - use antibiotics or drink water?
If you have a severe cough in the short period, what will you do: go to the doctor and get a prescription or lie in bed and drink plenty of water? A recent study support…
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Egypt: successful surgery first conjoined twins
According to Egyptian state news agency MENA, Egyptian doctors yesterday, on November 18, successfully operated a conjoined twins at a public hospital in Cairo.
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3D technology helps locate pain
A 3D program that helps patients describe the pain that always tortures them most accurately and intuitively is being developed by Brunel University (UK).
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'Project Vietnam' hearts of multinational doctors
Volunteer delegation of Project Vietnam group (from the US) consists of 86 members with 40 multinational experts and doctors on the journey (from October 27 to November…