Doctors/Surgeons

Cagliari striker Trepy out of induced coma after swimming pool accident

Soccer Football - Serie A - Cagliari v Napoli - Unipol Domus, Cagliari, Italy - March 20, 2026 Cagliari's Yael Trepy REUTERS/Ciro De Luca

Doctor, acquaintance who took drugs in Sentosa hotel get a year’s jail each

Rayson Lee Rui Sheng (left) and Tan Li Ming (right) were each convicted of one count of drug consumption in June.

US Senate panel votes to hold Anthony Fauci in contempt of Congress

Anthony Fauci, former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, during a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing on July 29.

The wearable data your doctor actually wants: Key health metrics revealed

Wearables can offer rough information about a person’s health, experts say, but only some metrics are medically useful.

Medical Mysteries

Singer’s rare benign spinal tumour kept at bay with proton beam therapy

Hasyima Yusof (right) with her husband, Jaime Cruz, at the National Cancer Centre Singapore on July 21. Hasyima had spinal ependymoma, a very rare tumour that develops from the cells lining the spinal cord.

North Dakota fertility doctor accused of using own sperm to impregnate woman

Dennis Lutz serves as chair of the obstetrics and gynaecology department at the University of North Dakota, the largest university in the state.

Vietnamese doctors perform nation’s first successful penis transplant

The Viet Duc Friendship Hospital medical team perform Vietnam’s first penis transplant from a brain-dead donor.

I have varicose veins. Should I worry?

Wearing compression stockings during the day can help as well as they apply external pressure to the legs, thus helping counteract gravity and reduce blood pooling.

Doctor who damaged Japan temples, shrines by performing ‘anointings’ admits to own ‘delusion’

Traces of an oil-like liquid are seen at the Katori-Jingu Shrine in Japan’s Chiba Prefecture.

Senegalese football federation says coach Pape Thiaw’s salary demands caused World Cup downfall

The issue was discovered late and had raised concern among players, said Senegalese federation chief Abdoulaye Fall.

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