Medical Equipment

Letters to the Editor, May 19, 2013

19 May 2013

The future belongs to our children, and every loving parent should want that future to include the biodiversity that we take for granted.

3:55AM

Priced out of life: the patients who chose to die

13 May 2013

At least five patients who needed breathing equipment at home to keep them alive have opted to die in the past year to spare their families the financial burden of renting or buying the apparatus...

5:24AM

Patient counts the cost of just staying alive

13 May 2013

Samuel Lo Siu-fung, who has a muscle-degenerative disease, is already using a machine to help him breathe, and tries not to think about what might happen were his condition to worsen.

8:42AM

Prioritising rare 'orphan diseases' of the medical world

18 Feb 2013

Mitochondrial disease is one of the orphan diseases - an ailment that has been ignored by the medical and pharmaceutical industries because of its rarity. There is no money to be made from finding...

4:34AM

The fight to diagnose mitochondrial disease in Hong Kong

18 Feb 2013

After years of appeals for donations, equipment to diagnose mitochondrial disease was brought to Hong Kong a few months ago and will be operational at the Queen Mary Hospital next year, after a...

4:34AM

Subsidy to help severely handicapped in Hong Kong

22 Nov 2012

People who have a severe physical handicap and need to rent medical equipment will receive a year-long subsidy of HK$2,000 to HK$2,500 a month from a trust fund, Chief Secretary Carrie Lam Cheng...

4:44AM

Opinion

For HSBC, the first love is apparently not the deepest

Updated 4:18AM

Tom Holland

Plunge in gold price puts a bad idea out of its misery

Updated 4:18AM

TCL Healthcare to take on global giants

A battle over market share in China often pits home-grown companies making affordable, low-end products against foreign rivals enjoying bumper sales with established brands.

2:45AM

Death at HK's Queen Mary Hospital 'caused by disconnected oxygen tube'

A patient with severe heart problems died in Queen Mary Hospital after a tube delivering oxygen to his blood became detached, it was revealed yesterday.

3:19AM

Ambulance workers manhandled patient

The Fire Services Department will investigate three ambulance workers for roughly dragging a patient into and out of a lift as he lay on the floor, without using a stretcher or wheelchair.

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9:42PM

Fresh perspective

Given Hong Kong's pollution, air purifiers can be a godsend, especially on those particularly muggy days. And the home-proud no longer need to contemplate something clunky and clinical-looking.

3:20PM

'Man of steel' aims for quick return

Brett Prebble is hoping to be back riding by early March, despite the fractured left collarbone he suffered falling in the opening race last Saturday at Sha Tin.

7:25AM

Vet denies beating and threatening girlfriend

A veterinarian yesterday denied allegations that he had beaten his girlfriend and had threatened to inject her with a chemical used to euthanise animals.

7:30PM