The latest bad news in the hunt for an Aids vaccine: the US government has halted a large study, saying the experimental shots are not preventing HIV infection. Nor did the shots reduce the amount...
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A rare eye infection 40 boys suffered while in Singapore for a rugby tournament is resistant to drugs and can cause blindness if not treated properly, doctors say.
The parasite...
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John Moore's retained jockey, Darren Beadman, yesterday abandoned 2009 Hong Kong Sprint runner-up One World and switched to unheralded Let Me Fight after an injury cloud appeared over the...
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Queen Mary Hospital's bone marrow transplant unit will reopen today to take new patients, after closing about two weeks ago because of a rare fungal infection that killed a six-year-old leukaemia...
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Health authorities are investigating the death of a leukaemia patient who could have succumbed to a rare fungal infection that has struck several patients at Queen Mary Hospital, where it has...
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Private hospitals have been urged to strike a better balance between the need for mother-baby contact and preventing infection after doubts were raised over the long-standing practice of keeping...
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The Centre for Health Protection warned people to guard against enterovirus 71 (EV 71) after a nine-month-old was confirmed to have the disease. The girl was admitted to Queen Elizabeth Hospital...
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A 59-year-old Chinese herbs dealer was yesterday confirmed to have the pig-borne Streptococcus suis infection, the fifth case this year.
The man was in stable condition at North...
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When adventure racer Ryan Blair reaches the roof of the world in the European Alps next weekend, he will have climbed more than a mountain. Fifteen months ago, the 33-year-old American suffered a...
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The infection rate of the most common food-borne parasitic disease on the mainland has increased by 75 per cent since 1990, according to a nationwide survey.
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The elderly gentleman Chan Yat-biu who lost his companion monkey Kam Ying has every reason to be sad and melancholic.
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