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Shingrix is a second-generation vaccine against shingles. Photo: Shutterstock
Wellness

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.

Hong Kong society

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

Japan

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

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.

Hong Kong Secretary for Health Lo Chung-mau (centre) speaks about the changes to public hospital fees and charges, at the government headquarters in Tamar, on March 25. Photo: May Tse
Wellness

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.

United States

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.

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5G

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.

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

Stroke survivor speaks again with help of experimental brain implant

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

Wellness

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.

United States

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.

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
Hong Kong

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.

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

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.

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Wellness

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.

Wellness

Free museum visits for health? This town will give you the doctor’s note

A novel medical option encourages patients to get physical and intellectual exercise, while the arts have been shown to boost mental health.

Marianne de Reynier Nevsky (left), the cultural mediation manager in Neuchâtel, and town council member Julie Courcier Delafontaine, chat about a new “museum prescription” programme outside the Ethnographic Museum of Neuchâtel in Neuchâtel, Switzerland, on March 19, 2025. Photo: AP
Wellness

Scared of needles? Blood-taking robots could provide painless solution

A Dutch firm’s AI-powered machines that draw blood with more accuracy than humans without the patient seeing the needle to be trialled in US.

Aletta by Vitestro uses infrared light and AI to quickly take patients’ blood samples. The machines arrive as health systems face a shortage of staff trained to draw blood. Photo: Vitestro
Hong Kong healthcare and hospitals

Explainer | Here’s all you need to know about Hong Kong’s coming medical fee changes

Revamped public healthcare charges are set to take effect on January 1 next year. We break down how patients will be affected.

Hong Kong healthcare and hospitals

Hongkongers brace for public hospital fee increases under service reform

Experts call for alternative medical services to be strengthened, as reform seeks to increase standard A&E fee to HK$400, among other areas.

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Malaysia

Malaysian minister’s claim of ‘Yolo’ mindset driving HIV cases draws ridicule

Deputy Health Minister Lukanisman Awang Sauni says the ‘you only live once’ mindset encourages individuals ‘to try something new’.

A diagnostician holds a positive HIV test. Photo: Shutterstock
Pope Francis

Pope Francis back home after 5-week hospital stay for double pneumonia

The 88-year-old pope made his first public appearance since February 14.

Hong Kong healthcare and hospitals

‘Gift of life’: Hong Kong breast milk bank collects over 300 litres

More donations needed to reach aim of collecting 1,000 litres annually to help 450 to 600 premature and critically ill newborns.

Hong Kong healthcare and hospitals

Record high 400,000 Hong Kong residents listed on organ donation register

Health minister hails ‘selfless’ and ‘mighty’ acts, while advocate notes city still has one of lowest organ donation rates globally.

Secretary for Health Lo Chung-mau (left) with donor recipient Cleo Lai and her parents. Photo: Handout
Fame and celebrity

Who’s Big Baller Brand’s controversial CEO, LaVar Ball?

The LA entrepreneur suffered from a foot infection due to diabetes that escalated into leg amputation in January – his wife Tina was also a basketball player, and the pair met at Cal State.

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LaVar Ball is opening up about the diabetes complication that led to his leg being amputated. Photo: @lavar/Instagram
Wellness

Now in pill form, hair loss treatment easier to use, may be more effective

Hair loss solution minoxidil in the 1990s was a sticky topical solution applied to the scalp. Now you can take it orally. It may work better.

Japan

Japanese stem cell research helps treat spinal injuries

Paralysis caused by serious spinal cord injuries affects more than 150,000 patients in Japan alone, with 5,000 new cases each year.

Hong Kong society

Letters | Hong Kong’s healthcare system needs a dose of empathy

Readers discuss the importance of human-centred medical system design, new traffic regulations, and the legalisation of basketball betting.

People at the Accident and Emergency Department of Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Jordan on March 17. Photo: Jelly Tse
Hong Kong healthcare and hospitals

Hong Kong chronic disease subsidy scheme to cover tests to detect high cholesterol

Starting March 28, participants under the scheme can undergo blood lipid testing at a subsidised cost of HK$120.

Dr Pang Fei-chau, commissioner for primary healthcare. Photo: Edmond So
Wellness

Ozempic workouts are the latest exercise craze, but are they anything new?

Workouts at gyms to combat muscle loss caused by GLP-1 drugs are gaining traction, but do they differ from regular strength training?

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Hong Kong healthcare and hospitals

Hong Kong A&E wards aim to cut wait times for urgent patients with fee change

Hospital Authority says it hopes to meet its service target of treating 90 per cent of urgent patients in A&E within 30 minutes.

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