Healthcare

8 May 2013

The need to provide a high standard of health care for China's growing population has taken centre stage in terms of policy implementation and execution.

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Teva better suited than most for China: chief executive

7 May 2013

Teva Pharmaceutical Industries has yet to make any serious inroads into China, but its chief executive believes the company is better suited than its rival drugmakers to serve the world’s fastest...

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China's two-in-one fix to improve public health

22 Apr 2013

For the new Chinese government, a task in these times of global economic slowdown will be to match job creation with the growing number of job seekers looking for gainful employment. Here the...

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Don't bank on trade from mainland Chinese mothers, CY warns medics

18 Mar 2013

Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying was addressing how the zero-tolerance policy for expectant mainland mothers in Hong Kong's maternity wards could affect the city's obstetrics industry. Yesterday...

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Shanghai's 'Dr Smile' Zhang Qiang goes private for public good

17 Mar 2013

Shanghai vascular surgeon Dr Zhang Qiang made headlines by quitting as department head of a public class-A hospital at the end of last year and becoming one of the mainland's few freelance doctors...

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Ageing population pushes up costs of getting old

7 Mar 2013

Asia's ageing population is increasing the demand for health-care and retirement products in the region, says Paul Murray, the managing director of life and health products for Swiss Reinsurance...

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Opinion

Alex Lo

Survey exposes racism's shameful face

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Alice Wu

Security chief's remarks on rape are illogical and misguided

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'While I battled Sars, Dad died in ward above'

For Dr Yeung Koon-sing, battling his Sars infection in 2003 was like taking a "roller-coaster ride". Not only did he have to go through the physical ordeal of having the virus, but his father died...

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Doctors confident Hong Kong is prepared if Sars strikes again

Medical experts pointed to the greater number of respiratory specialists and isolation wards, and the better understanding of how the disease spreads and thrives.

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Briefs, February 20, 2013

State Councillor Liu Yandong will attend the inauguration ceremony of South Korean president-elect Park Geun-hye on Monday as the special envoy of President Hu Jintao and Communist Party General...

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HEALTH CARE

Wong Yuk-man questions worth of free beds in private hospitals

A lawmaker said the free beds offered at private hospitals may as well not exist, after the health chief admitted that other charges at the facilities meant the poor were unlikely to ever use them...

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Letters to the Editor, December 7, 2012

Many Western countries face difficulties balancing their budgets. One of the biggest factors is the ever increasing cost of health care, with a greying population and the development of better but...

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WUHAN

Wuhan hospital takes down banner celebrating 40,000 patients