Health

Blue Whale ‘suicide game’ big concern for Dubai parents

May 4, 2017

It sets them 50 challenges and the last one is to commit suicide Worried school parents in Dubai have been sharing advisories with each other via social media regarding an online craze, which has reportedly been linked to hundreds of teen deaths in Russia. The chilling challenge, called Blue Whale, [...]

Scissors pulled from Vietnam man’s stomach 18 years after surgery

January 3, 2017

Hanoi (AFP) – A Vietnamese man has had scissors removed from his abdomen which were left behind during surgery 18 years ago, after reporting a stomachache that was nearly two decades in the making. Ma Van Nhat, now 54, underwent surgery in 1998 after a car accident and only recently [...]

UK first country to legally offer ‘three-parent’ gene therapy

December 15, 2016

London (AFP) – Britain is set to become the first country in the world to legally offer “three-parent baby” fertility treatments after regulators gave the green light. The technique, which uses DNA from two women and a man, would allow mothers who carry disease-causing mutations [...]