Doctors News

Darwen - Eamonn Kilbride, 46, collapsed and died from acute heart failure Saturday after he danced Psy's YouTube hit Gangnam Style. He died after he complained of chest pains following an energetic session of the horse-gallop dance at his office Christmas party.

Surgical errors have become far too common in hospitals today. With everything from operating on the wrong person, to infecting a healthy patient with non-sterile equipment, it is hard to trust our medical professionals in such an unstable environment.

While medical science has performed miracles, the ingenuity of innovative medical practitioners can do wonders. This is the case of Sherrie Walter, who lost her ear to cancer two years ago.

Ottawa - The Canadian Medical Association says it's time to change the Criminal Code's 120-year old so-called spanking law. Currently, the law gives parents and teachers the right to spank or hit children as a means of discipline.

A woman who reported at China's Changsha Central Hospital, complaining about itching in the left ear, was terrifed when doctors told her that the cause of the itching was a spider that had been living in her ear canal for five days.

From pacemakers to artificial hips, people are getting more familiar with new technology placed in their bodies, but imbedding microchips still raises many privacy concerns.

A UK student suffering from a life-threatening brain tumor was repeatedly turned away by doctors who insisted her crippling headaches were due to just being 'homesick.'

Had George Zimmerman shot Trayvon Martin in Britain, the case would have been handled very differently, if the daytime soap 'Doctors' is anything to go by.

A rapist is battered to death in 'Coronation Street', and a launderette lady in 'EastEnders', while in 'Doctors' there is domestic violence afoot. (Note: This article contains spoilers for those who haven't seen these soaps yet).

In a study published in the medical journal The Lancet, two Australian doctors have recommended regular doses of contraceptive pills for nuns. The doctors Kara Britt and Professor Roger Short, said that contraceptive pills will protect nuns from cancer.