Internal Medicine Doctor

Boston/Berlin - Women who enjoy drinking coffee may be lowering their risk of suffering a stroke, new US research suggests. Women who drank five to seven cups of coffee a week were 12 per cent less likely to have a stroke than were those who downed j...

Hamburg, Germany - Spring has arrived in the northern hemisphere - and with it, a time of suffering for those who are susceptible to hay fever. About 10 million people in Germany are allergic to pollen, said the Association of German Allergists in Ha...

Sydney - For half her life, 66-year-old Gael Lander struggled with high blood pressure that did not respond to the drugs usually prescribed. I really felt as if something or someone had pushed the fast- forward button, she said. Everything raced -...

Singapore - Singapore was hit by the second outbreak of mass food-poisoning case in two weeks, as a dozen people fell ill after eating the same food, local media reported Sunday. The Health Ministry said it was notified Saturday of 12 cases, all stem...

Hong Kong- A Hong Kong anti-smoking campaigner who for a quarter of a century has been a thorn in the side of the tobacco industry in Asia was Sunday celebrating a major international award for her crusading work. Dr Judith Mackay, labeled one of the...