A Wuhan nurse has reportedly jumped to her death from a hospital building following an argument with a supervisor over a lack of personal protective equipment for COVID-19 front-line health workers. The name of Wuhan Union Hospital’s chief nurse, Liu Yilan, 54, is now trending on Chinese social media after…
This is the moment a homeowner narrowly avoids a bicycle falling from the 18th floor of a nearby tower block after a naughty boy who had tripped over it in a corridor threw it out the window. The incident happened in a gated community in the county of Huangmei, in…
A Chinese man who ate a delicacy of undercooked fish has lost half a liver after the vital organ was “eaten" from the inside by an army of parasitic flatworms which laid “countless” eggs. The patient, named only as Mr Xie, 55, presented with symptoms including a loss of appetite,…
A pensioner and her elderly mother survived on each other’s urine for four days after they became trapped in a darkened lift in their private villa. The 64-year-old daughter and her 82-year-old parent were the only two people at home and did not have their mobile phones on them, their…
A Chinese arthritis patient whose severe spinal deformity gave him the nickname ‘Folding Man’ has walked out of hospital standing up straight for the first time in 28 years. Li Hua, 46, left Shenzhen University General Hospital in China’s southern province of Guangdong on 13th June following a full year…
This is the pregnant German cockroach found burrowing into a sleeping man’s ear canal where it then laid a large sac containing dozens of hatchlings. The male patient in his 20s took himself to Dongguan People’s Hospital in South China’s Guangdong Province after experiencing a sharp pain in his ear,…
This is the moment surgeons operating on an infant suffering from five days of vomiting discover a large water bead toy obstructing her intestines. The nine-month-old from Xi’an, capital of Shaanxi Province in north-western China, was diagnosed with a severe bowel obstruction on 6th July, according to a report by…
These viral videos seen over 200 million times show a young basketball starlet who is wowing the internet with his hoop skills at the young age of two. Nicknamed ‘Xiaobuding’ - Chinese for ‘Little Pudding’ - the boy from the city of Luzhou in south-western China’s Sichuan Province was shooting…
A surgeon has shared pre- and post-op images of a woman who accidentally sawed through her own hand on a building site. Worker Ms Wang suffered a “lapse in concentration”, causing her to put her right hand on an operational electric saw, according to her doctor, Yue Xiaotai. Pictures shared…
A man who complained of a constant scratching noise in his sleep has had a live cockroach removed from his ear canal. Xiangzhou People’s Hospital in Zhuhai, in South China’s Guangdong Province, said that the case was not an isolated one, and it treated three patients in seven hours after…