Medical Ethics

Sydney honour for China organ transplant doctor prompts outcry

1 May 2013

Australian academics are calling for a Chinese surgeon accused of harvesting organs from executed prisoners to be stripped of a University of Sydney honorary professorship. Huang Jiefu, who was...

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Beijing hospital staff grilled over private use of ambulance sirens

31 Dec 2012

With sirens wailing, a Beijing ambulance headed for the hospital was not rushing a patient back at all. It was returning from a noodle restaurant where staff members had dinner that night.

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Luo Diandian campaigns for death with dignity

16 Dec 2012

Most mainlanders spare no effort to obtain the best medical treatment available to extend the lives of loved ones in the terminal stage of an illness, but 61-year-old Luo Diandian is calling for a...

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Quadriplegic Tang Siu-pun, who stirred debate on euthanasia, dies

10 Dec 2012

Quadriplegic Tang Siu-pun, whose appeal for the right to end his life sparked widespread discussion about euthanasia, died yesterday. He was 43.

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Locked-in syndrome patient dies peacefully days after losing euthanasia bid

23 Aug 2012

A British man left paralysed but fully conscious and aware of his predicament died yesterday, days after losing a legal bid to end his life of "pure torture", his lawyers and family said.

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Twist of faith

22 May 2012

When the University of Hong Kong released the results of a study into the effectiveness of acupuncture in treating depression recently, it wasn't the fact that 19.4 per cent of patients reported...

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Opinion

Michael Cox

The last straw for Terry Wong?

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Jake Van Der Kamp

iBonds are little help in easing inflation and a bad bet financially

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Health issue that's tragically neglected

When tragedies involving mental patients attacking family members and strangers become regular occurrences, questions have to be asked whether our society is giving sufficient attention to the...

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HK$67m compensation package for medical staff

About 5,600 public hospital nurses and other staff will receive compensation for being on call on public holidays or days off from 2004 to 2009, the Hospital Authority said yesterday.

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16 charged over sale of 51 human kidneys

Sixteen people have been charged with organising the sale of 51 human kidneys for more than 10 million yuan (HK$12.3 million) in the mainland's biggest organ trading case.

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Mystery of kidney 'lost' on night out

A migrant worker claims he awoke on Thursday night in Dongguan to find himself 20,000 yuan (HK$24,600) richer but minus one kidney.

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Slow progress on a legal black hole

Legal experts have been busy scrutinising draft amendments to the Criminal Procedure Law, but the recently released draft mental health legislation also deserves attention in the context of...

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Rehabilitated patients earn less

More than half of rehabilitated mental patients earn lower salaries than before they were diagnosed, an Alliance for Advocating Mental Health Policy survey found.

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