Last month, a frantic call came into the National Fire Agency’s 119 Safety Reporting Center. A family member reported that Ms. A, a woman in her 70s living in northern Seoul, was vomiting blood.

Dr. William Moore Thompson IV was the only doctor of his kind in South Orange County. According to many of those he treated, Thompson was an infectious disease expert who had made his name in medicine ...

People might attribute midnight bouts of chest pain or waves of nausea to food poisoning, stress or a stubborn case of ...