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Into the light

14 Jun 2012

Enjoy the sun and not its harmful effects with radiance-restoring facials, writes Catharine Nicol.

Spring cleaning

8 Mar 2012

Put your best face forward with the latest in luxury organic facials, writes Victoria Ip.

Beauty before age

27 Sep 2012

Botox, fillers, lasers and more join the mainstream in ourquest for younger-looking skin, writes Catharine Nicol.

Anti-HIV drug effort boosts life expectancy in South Africa

24 Feb 2013

An intensive campaign to combat HIV/Aids with costly antiretroviral drugs in rural South Africa has increased life expectancy by more than 11 years and significantly reduced the risk of infection...

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...

Opinion

Jake Van Der Kamp

An age-old problem and the sums that just don't add up

Howard Winn

HSBC suffers the Taibbi treatment in Rolling Stone

Shirley Yam

How tycoons' IPO 'losses' may hide profits at herd's expense

The fight to diagnose mitochondrial disease in Hong Kong

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...

Bird flu kills Guiyang woman in first fatal case in a year

One of two patients confirmed to have contracted the H5N1 bird flu virus died yesterday in a hospital in Guiyang, capital of Guizhou province. Guizhou authorities said Shuai Pengyue, a 21-year-old...

Research to resume on deadly artificial strain of H5N1 virus

Experiments with a deadly, artificially mutated version of the bird flu virus are set to resume in a few weeks, ending a year-long suspension in research prompted by a global outcry over the risks...

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MEDICINE

Insulin breakthrough may end daily jabs for diabetics

Research mapping how insulin works at a molecular level could open the door to novel new diabetes treatments, ending daily needle jabs for millions, scientists said yesterday.

MEDICINE

Sex change patients getting younger, and are more likely to be women

Transsexuals in Hong Kong are now seeking gender-changing surgery at a much earlier age than two decades ago, and those coming forward are more likely to be women seeking to become men.

MEDICINE

Three medical leaps that could transform disease treatments

More than once last year, researchers described leaps in medical science that were so breathtaking, and held so much potential for patients, that they immediately joined the list of fields to...