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China has recently relaxed its one-child per family rule in an effort to cut down on the number of children being trafficked illegally. The one-child rule and the favoring of male infants has led to an increase in the selling of baby girls and women.

Delaware - Delaware County prosecutors in Ohio contend a former emergency room doctor violated his oath when he murdered a woman and her unborn child.

A North Carolina mother is accusing hospital security guards of forcibly ejecting her son, despite the fact that he was dying.

Medical marijuana is constantly in news and more positive views about its “harmless” nature seem to be attempting to win public opinion. But is it really safe? One experienced doctor rejects all safety claims of medical cannabis.

Morgantown - It has long been held that handshaking is a vector for the transfer of disease-causing bacteria from one individual to the next. But an on-the-rise greeting trend could be a step in the right direction for reducing the spread of disease.

Kent - A British grandfather showed up at a school to pick up his granddaughter to take her to a doctor's appointment. The school mistakenly released another girl with the same last name as his granddaughter who was then erroneously taken to the doctor.

Ohio - It seems Google Glass can do more than take videos of cats and talk to friends, as one doctor from Ohio State University has shown.

A highly-regarded anesthesiologist in Russia was recently fired after he brutally beat a heart surgery patient, who later died.

A doctor in Brazil could prove to be one of history's worst serial killers of mankind, according to the British newspaper The Guardian.

Virginia Soares de Souza is being investigated by the Brazilian health authorities on suspicion of intentionally killing close to 300 patients to free up hospital beds at the Hospital Evangelico in Curitiba, south Brazil.