Disease

9 May 2013

Pet lovers in Hong Kong are a vocal lot. It is becoming difficult to find a decent walk on Hong Kong Island without encountering furry pets.

Keeping a pet is a personal lifestyle choice. It...

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Chronic diseases: Asia's emerging health threat

29 Jan 2013

People are living longer and fewer are dying from infectious disease, but this progress in health is no guarantee of living happily and healthily.

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Cancer reflects the processes of the evolution of life

27 Jan 2013

In the frantic search for an elusive "cure", few researchers stand back and ask a very basic question: why does cancer exist? What is its place in the grand story of life? Astonishingly, in spite...

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50 infected in Cuban cholera outbreak

17 Jan 2013

Cuba's second cholera outbreak in four months - after 130 years without the disease - has infected more than 50 people and killed one in Havana.

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World Diabetes Day a timely reminder of a global killer

14 Nov 2012

Amid a national party congress that will install China's new leaders and the aftermath of a US presidential election, a day on the UN calendar that comes round every year seems unremarkable. World...

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Experts warn of drug-resistant malaria threat

1 Nov 2012

Drug-resistant malaria is spreading in Asia, experts warned, as a high-level conference opened yesterday with the aim of hammering out an action plan to strengthen the region's response.

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Opinion

Worrying economic parallels between China and India

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Howard Winn

Elsie Leung caught up in Rusal's byzantine politics

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UK scientists develop cheap test-tube technique to spot disease

Scientists in Britain say they have developed a super-sensitive test using nanoparticles to spot markers for cancer or the virus that can lead to Aids in blood serum that can be verified using the...

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Shaw Prize laureates set great store by curiosity

For 20 years, professors Franz-Ulrich Hartl and Arthur Horwich loved to tinker with the functioning of protein in body cells.

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Yosemite phones flooded by global callers asking about hantavirus

The calls from concerned tourists have been coming in from as far away as China. Ever since an emergency line was set up on Tuesday at the Yosemite National Park after a recent outbreak of...

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US faces mosquito-borne West Nile virus outbreak, as cases climb 60pc

The number of West Nile virus infections in the United States has jumped more than 60 per cent in the past week in what officials say is one of the country's biggest-ever outbreaks of the disease...

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Shutting schools conquered swine flu

More than half of the victims of a swine flu pandemic three years ago were school children and school closures proved to be a practical way to slow the spread of the disease, a study has found....

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Disease victims in cry for help

Shanghai resident Wu Jun has not set foot outside his home for more than 18 months.

Wu has ALS, a rare disease of the brain and spinal cord nerve cells that control voluntary muscle...

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