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Accident and emergency departments’ fee for people with less urgent needs will increase from the current HK$180 to HK$400, under the reform. Photo: Jelly Tse

Hong Kong healthcare and hospitals

Hong Kong lawmakers urge clarity on fee waivers under new healthcare charges

Many elderly residents are unclear about their inclusion under the new policy’s safety net, Kitson Yang says.

14 Apr 2025 - 8:39PM

How to lower your risk of Parkinson’s disease and slow its advance

13 Apr 2025 - 5:15PM

New medical drugs

Trump’s tariffs: will Chinese pharmaceutical industry feel the pain?

12 Apr 2025 - 11:33AMvideocam

Told she had stage 4 cancer at 41, designer finds strength in art therapy

Ivy Ip says art therapy classes at the Hong Kong Cancer Fund have been a source of inspiration. Now she’s exhibiting her work in Wan Chai.

12 Apr 2025 - 7:58AM

Ivy Ip (left) and husband Kenneth Kwan, together with Hong Kong Cancer Fund art therapist Tang Hoi-lam, display a wool-felt scarf they made together at a couples’ art therapy session. Photo: Courtesy of Ivy Ip

Pig kidney removed from US woman after record-setting 4 months

Towana Looney’s body eventually rejected the animal organ, but previous recipients of such transplants did not survive past two months.

12 Apr 2025 - 3:50AM

‘Human error’: Australia woman has stranger’s baby after IVF clinic mistake

Staff at Brisbane’s Monash IVF discovered an embryo from another patient had been mistakenly thawed and transferred to the birth mother.

11 Apr 2025 - 8:18PMvideocam

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Trump health chief RFK Jnr says US will know cause of autism ‘epidemic’ soon

Kennedy has long promoted a debunked link between vaccines and autism despite scientific evidence to the contrary.

11 Apr 2025 - 3:05AM

US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jnr attends a press conference in Salt Lake City, Utah, on Monday. Photo: Reuters

At 23, she had a stroke. It left her feeling like ‘a ticking time bomb’

Before her stroke, Emma Rand had been told her blood pressure was high. After a series of tests, doctors revealed what probably caused it.

10 Apr 2025 - 3:15PM

Hong Kong healthcare and hospitals

Are community pharmacies the magic bullet for Hong Kong’s patients?

How will patients benefit and how much will proposed community pharmacies help Hong Kong’s chronically overstretched public healthcare system?

10 Apr 2025 - 8:00AM

That little voice in our heads? This woman doesn’t have one

Most of us have an inner voice, some more than one. But to the surprise of some scientists, a few people do not – like Australian Mel May.

9 Apr 2025 - 4:15PM

For people like Mel May, not having an inner voice means they don’t stress about the future, but may also have a hard time remembering the past.
Photo: Shutterstock

From robot nurses to diagnoses, 5 ways AI is changing healthcare

Doctors say using artificial intelligence will make future healthcare more effective, such as by rapid diagnosis and tailored treatments.

9 Apr 2025 - 1:00PMvideocam

Missi, the AI-powered robot nurse helping to minimise healthcare worker burnout. Photo: NUHS

More evidence links diabetes in pregnancy to higher autism risk in children

Women with diabetes who become pregnant are shown to be at particular risk of giving birth to a child with ADHD, autism or other disorders.

8 Apr 2025 - 5:45PM

Rise in fungal diseases, hard to treat and deadly, worries experts

Dangerous fungal infections that kill millions are becoming more common as the planet warms, and treatment options are few and far between.

7 Apr 2025 - 4:15PM

Second US child dies of measles, almost 650 ill in southern states: officials

Texas reported its first measles death, also of a child, in February – marking the first US fatality from the disease in nearly a decade.

7 Apr 2025 - 10:40AM

Signs point the way to a measles testing centre in the car park of a hospital in Seminole, Texas. Photo: TNS

Can alternative cancer treatment like in Netflix’s Apple Cider Vinegar work?

Integrative cancer treatment fusing conventional medicine and holistic therapy from meditation to yoga is getting eyeballs. Experts weigh in.

5 Apr 2025 - 4:15AM

Alycia Debnam-Carey as Milla Blake in Netflix’s Apple Cider Vinegar. Photo: Netflix

What you should do after dementia finding about shingles vaccine

Research showing older adults’ risk of getting dementia fell if they had shingles vaccination another reason to consider getting the shot.

4 Apr 2025 - 1:45PM

Hong Kong society

Opinion | Hong Kong healthcare reforms must go to the heart of systemic failures

Cutting healthcare subsidies without a big expansion of primary care investment risks deepening disparities.

3 Apr 2025 - 10:41AM

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Japan’s second ‘baby hatch’ for abandoned infants opens amid economic strain

With thousands of product prices rising, the cost of raising a child is becoming an impossible burden for some young Japanese women.

2 Apr 2025 - 11:00AM

A member of staff demonstrates Japan’s first baby hatch at Jikei Hospital in Kumamoto city. Photo: AFP

Hong Kong society

Opinion | Hong Kong’s hard-hit middle class will bear brunt of rise in healthcare fees

The government sees the increases as an unavoidable course correction but, for many Hongkongers, it feels like yet another financial squeeze.

2 Apr 2025 - 10:16AM

For those struggling with severe or chronic pain, stem cell therapy may offer relief

When Tim Noonan’s shoulder tore in 2014, stem cell therapy eased his extreme pain – 10 years later, he returns for more of the novel therapy.

2 Apr 2025 - 9:00AM

Trump health cuts to axe 10,000 jobs, strip union rights, amid measles outbreak

The US Department of Health and Human Services aims to lay off up to 10,000 employees through agency consolidation, raising public health concerns.

1 Apr 2025 - 9:56PM

People march in protest against Tesla CEO Elon Musk and the Trump administration on March 29. Photo: AFP

China makes advances in commercialisation of brain-computer interface technology

The semi-invasive system developed by CIBR and its affiliated start-up NeuCyber NeuroTech have completed their first three human implants.

1 Apr 2025 - 5:00PM

A staff member demonstrates a brain-computer interface for post-stroke rehabilitation at the World Robot Conference in Beijing, August 16, 2023. Photo: Xinhua

Stroke survivor speaks again with help of experimental brain implant

Brain implant using artificial intelligence turns thoughts into speech in near real-time.

1 Apr 2025 - 2:14PM

Dementia’s links to diabetes, herpes explored as research widens

Protein clumps in the brain have long been associated with Alzheimer’s, but other potential causes of the condition are now in the spotlight.

31 Mar 2025 - 4:15AM

Top US vaccine official quits, slams Trump health chief for ‘misinformation’

The Food and Drug Administration’s Peter Marks oversaw the agency’s rapid review and approval of Covid-19 jabs during the pandemic.

30 Mar 2025 - 1:49AM

Peter Marks, Director of the Centre for Biologics Evaluation and Research at the US Food and Drug Administration answers a question during a hearing in Washington in May 2021. Photo: AFP

This week in PostMag: from André Fu’s designs to stem cell therapy

Stunt double Jason Li talks about his journey from squash courts to the set of Transformers while we look at Fu’s Dusit Thani Bangkok project.

4 Apr 2025 - 4:38PM

Architect André Fu in his studio in Central, features on this week’s print cover. Photo: Jocelyn Tam

What if curing cancer could cost 99% less in China?

Chinese biotech start-ups are going up against Western drug makers – and they could win.

29 Mar 2025 - 8:40AMvideocam

Suffering from a migraine? Cinnamon may provide remedy, study suggests

Researchers in Seoul ease man’s chronic migraines using cinnamon after traditional drugs fail. They say it works by inhibiting inflammation.

28 Mar 2025 - 4:15AM

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