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News
Chinese Frontliner Dumps MASSIVE Amount of Sweat From Suit During Break
Incredible footage reportedly showing a sweat-soaked medical frontliner in China has become widely shared on social media. ...
Ryan General
Sichuan Medical Team Fighting COVID-19 Pandemic to Receive 1 Year Free Hot Pot
The medical team sent from Sichuan Province to Wuhan, a city in Hubei Province, is set to receive a year’s worth of hot pot for free o...
Bryan Ke
1,153 Coronavirus Patients Have Recovered and Left the Hospital, China Reports
A total of 1,153 patients infected by the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) have reportedly been discharged from the hospital on Wednesday, Chin...
Husband Sacrifices Stomach Cancer Treatment for Wife With Breast Cancer and Daughter With Lupus
A man in eastern China decided to sacrifice his cancer treatment to save costs for his wife and daughter, who were also struck with medical ...
Carl Samson
Asia
South Korea Becomes the First East Asian Country to Legalize Medical Marijuana
South Korea recently became the first country in East Asia, and only the second Asian country after Sri Lanka, to legalize medical marijuana...
Thai Monks With First-Aid Training Perform CPR on Injured Man
A group of Thai monks has gone viral after performing CPR on a severely injured motorcyclist whom they had come across with while returning ...
Hero Med Student Saves Elderly Man Who Collapsed at a Train Station in China
A medical student from Jinzhou in Liaoning Province, China is earning praise online after saving an elderly man who collapsed and lost consc...
Lifestyle
South Asians in the U.S. Are at High Risk for Heart Disease
New reports claim that South Asians living in the United States have a high risk for cardiac disease. After a comprehensive review of existi...
You Can’t Donate Sperm in Beijing Unless You Are Loyal to China’s Communist Party
A sperm bank in Beijing has recently made headlines for its strict donor requirements, including loyalty to China’s Communist Party and its ...
Food
5-Foot Tapeworm ‘Wiggles Out’ of Man’s Butt After Eating Sushi in California
A Fresno, California man who walked into a hospital complaining of bloody diarrhea discovered that he had been hosting a 5-foot Japanese sal...
World
Doctor Goes to Help Puerto Rico, Discovers the Disaster is Much Worse in Person
I volunteered in Puerto Rico for two weeks, serving as a doctor in a mobile medical unit. What I witnessed was a humanitarian crisis that wa...
Celine Thum, MD
Plastic Surgery Clinics in Korea: Where to Go and Whom to Trust
“Money can’t buy you happiness, but it can pay for the plastic surgery.” — Joan Rivers. What is the reason for the high demand i...
Regen Medical Group
Civil Rights
Nursing Textbook Pulled After Stereotyping How Asians, Other Racial Groups Deal With Pain
A nursing textbook has been pulled from shelves after a student posted a page depicting woefully inaccurate stereotypes about different raci...
Heather Johnson Yu
Surgeons In China Save Boy Who Stuck 26 Magnets Up His Penis
It took a surgeon two hours to remove 26 mini magnetic balls from a Chinese boy’s bladder. The unnamed 11-year-old from Zhejiang Province in...
Taiwanese Homeowner Stops Rescuers From Saving Dying Man Because of Asian Superstition
Firefighters in Taiwan encountered a delay in their attempt to rescue an injured man after a superstitious homeowner reportedly refused to l...
Why Some Asians Have a Vanishing Blue Birthmark Called A ‘Mongolian Spot’
“Do you have any birthmarks?” a coworker behind me randomly asked aloud. My ears perked up and I turned my chair around to face ...
Chinese Teen Undergoes Surgery to Have Boob-Like Lump Removed
A Chinese teenager underwent surgery to partially remove one of his breasts after it mysteriously grew to the size of an A-cup bra, accordin...
Misc
26-Year-Old Woman With Rare Disorder Challenges Beauty Standards on Instagram
“My skin was my biggest insecurity, but now I just think it’s the most beautiful thing ever.” These powerful words opened ...
Miami City Attorney Compares Legalizing Medical Marijuana to ‘Having Sex With a Child’
Miami’s deputy city attorney, Barnaby Min, has been taking some heat after he compared the legalization of medical marijuana in the city to ...
Khier Casino
Chinese Doctors Successfully Give Patient New Ear After Growing One on His Arm
A doctor from China successfully replaced a man’s lost ear by growing it on the patient’s arm and attaching it back to his head. The patient...
King Malleta
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