Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Members of the Military Medical Examination Commission can no longer use their own discretion when determining a person's ...

The defense and interior ministries are jointly handling revisions to the physical classification standards, with the Ministry of Health and Welfare, medical associations and human rights groups ...

As the population of conscripts in their 20s decreases, the number of medical personnel such as military doctors, public health doctors, and specialized research personnel—all of whom hold medical ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Photo: getty images President Volodymyr Zelenskyy signed legislation to reduce the age limit of ...

At the military barracks in Sweden's southern town of Karlskrona, as in those across the country, every bathroom is equipped with dispensers for tampons and sanitary pads supplied to women conscripts ...

Taiwanese soldiers pose for a photo at the Songshan military airbase in Taipei on March 21. (I-Hwa Cheng/AFP via Getty Images) One year after the conscription reform implementation, Taiwan’s military ...

Taiwan needs nurses as the country grapples with a chronic shortage. Now, policymakers are looking to conscripts to help fill in some gaps in an overburdened health system. Canadian PM Carney says ...