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Sudan President Omar al-Bashir vowed "real reforms" on Monday after days of deadly protest that pose one of the biggest challenges he has faced during decades in power. As demonstrations sparked by a hike in bread prices entered their sixth day, doctors went on strike ...

Sudan's doctors will go on an indefinite strike in the first of a series of work stoppages amid protests calling on the country's longtime autocratic leader, President Omar Bashir, to step down, an umbrella coalition of professional unions said on Sunday. In a statement, it ...

Seven-year-old Carlos Kamara needs urgent surgery on a collapsed lung after he swallowed a toy whistle. Instead, all he can do is lie in pain in a half-empty hospital ward waiting to be seen. A doctors' strike in Sierra Leone has paralyzed an already threadbare ...

Cuba announced Wednesday it will pull thousands of its doctors out of Brazil in response to President-elect Jair Bolsonaro's "direct, contemptuous and threatening" remarks about its medical aid program. The far-right leader repeatedly criticized the communist-run island's "More Doctors" program — which sends thousands of ...

Educators at schools nationwide work more than 11 hours per day on average while senior school staff were found to have worked even longer.

More than half Venezuela's doctors have been forced to flee the country's crushing economic and political crisis, according to a report by health NGOs released Thursday. "Between 2012 and 2017, 22,000 Venezuelan doctors migrated" — 55 percent of the total 39,000 doctors registered by the ...

Yukiko Hayashi, an alumnus of the school and head of pathophysiology at its School of Medicine, beat her sole rival — a male pediatrician — in an election among professors.

Listening to the excuses being given for discrimination today, it's almost as if 1985's Equal Opportunity Act never happened.

Women in the capital were asked about their feelings about the gender discrimination in the medical school exam-fixing case and the situation where they live and work.

Tokyo Medical University deducted points from the entrance exam scores of all female applicants to keep the ratio of women studying at the university at about 30 percent, sources have said.

The education ministry on Friday began a probe into entrance exams at university medical departments after Tokyo Medical University admitted to unfairly lowering the scores of women applicants to curb their enrollment. The ministry also announced that it will set up a team of experts ...