Clinic

Illegal human embryo clinic busted in Beijing

26 Mar 2013

Police and various regulators in Beijing cracked down on a medical group claiming to be from Hong Kong that had grown almost 300 human embryos a year in test tubes for surrogate mothers without...

4:45AM

Elderly forced to queue at 2am for dental care, concern group claims

10 Mar 2013

It's a long and painful wait and they don't get much sleep, but elderly people still queue up in the early hours of the morning at one of the few government dental clinics in the city.

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Letters to the Editor, January 21, 2013

21 Jan 2013

Top ranking a poisoned chalice

I refer to the report ("Populist policies 'threaten HK's reign as freest economy'", January 11).

The US organisation with the pompous title, the...

3:35AM

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Healer faces 18 months for lapse

19 Jan 2012

A former Chinese medical practitioner was given an 18-month suspended sentence yesterday for continuing to treat patients despite being delisted for unprofessional conduct.

5:43AM

Treat the disease

14 Nov 2011

Do we have enough doctors in Hong Kong? Is protectionism to blame for this perceived manpower crisis in hospitals? As soon as the people of Hong Kong decide how much to spend on public health...

12:37AM

East meets West for the treatment of inpatients

12 Sep 2011

Kwong Wah Hospital will provide the city's first inpatient service offering a combined treatment of Western and Chinese traditional medicine from the end of this month.

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Opinion

Tom Holland

Attempts to diversify China's reserves have been a disaster

4:45AM

Howard Winn

China is like the EU; provinces are its member states

5:26AM

Free clinic caters for city's working poor

New immigrant Coco Chui is one of 20 patients sitting in the Sham Shui Po office of a leading welfare group, waiting her turn to see a Chinese medical practitioner to ease her...

4:25PM

Scheme to let doctors open private clinics

Doctors in five mainland cities will find it much easier to set up private clinics under a new pilot programme announced by the Ministry of Health.

1:42PM

Family doctors urged to play greater role

Family doctors with additional training in psychiatry should play a more important role in the care of patients facing a long wait for treatment at public clinics, says Dr Choi Kin, the newly...

11:57AM

Little chance of promotion for dispensers, court told

Disgruntled pharmaceutical dispensers at public outpatient clinics took their grievances to the Court of First Instance yesterday, saying they are deprived of fair promotion prospects.

1:32PM

Survey finds need for night clinics

Half of 352 former mental patients said they were adversely affected by a lack of night clinics, a survey by the Society for Community Organisation found.

5:47AM

Lack of skin specialists 'costing lives of patients'

The lack of dermatology services at public hospitals is putting patients at risk, according to a frontline doctor who says elderly patients have died from skin disease complications because of a...

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