Pediatrics

Girl, 5, in intensive care as scarlet fever cases triple

31 May 2012

A five-year-old girl was said last night to be in a critical condition with scarlet fever, as figures showed the number of cases in the city has tripled since last year.

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Ready or not

18 Mar 2012

Bouncing happily around the house, 3?-year-old Andrea Chiu is all giggles and smiles. It's hard to imagine that she weighed just 570 grams and was barely bigger than the palm of a hand when she...

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Record demand for care of newborns

11 Jan 2012

The demand for intensive care services for newborns in Hong Kong's public hospitals hit a record last year, taking up 108 per cent of available capacity, according to statistics released...

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When big hearts can save little lives

21 Nov 2011

The story of baby Dong - a pneumonia-stricken infant abandoned at a hospital in Guizhou because his parents could not afford medical care - is one that Children's Medical Foundation (CMF)...

1:18AM

Rubella outbreak halts church services

18 Oct 2011

A hotel in Causeway Bay has cancelled church services held on its premises catering to Indonesian domestic helpers after an outbreak of rubella or German measles.

10:25PM

HK rubella outbreak traced to church service

17 Oct 2011

Health authorities yesterday traced a suspected outbreak of rubella, or German measles, to a church service that is attended mostly by Indonesian domestic helpers, held at a hotel in Causeway Bay...

10:20PM

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Help protect yourself against the new type of scarlet fever

Two young children have died of a disease called scarlet fever. One was a five-year-old boy and the other a seven-year-old girl.

1:35PM

Scarlet fever feared to have killed second child

Scarlet fever is suspected to have claimed the life of a second child yesterday as the number of recorded cases soared to nearly double the previous high.

12:58PM

Three more children hit by scarlet fever

Three children from the same primary school in Tuen Mun have been added to the list of youngsters across Hong Kong stricken by scarlet fever.

12:31PM

No clues to record rise in cases of scarlet fever

The number of cases of a highly contagious and potentially fatal childhood disease has hit the highest level since records began and experts have no idea why.

11:58AM

Neonatal transfers up sharply

The number of babies transferred from private hospitals to the intensive care units of public hospitals has risen by a quarter over the past three years, Hospital Authority figures show.

9:23AM

Doctor warns of complacency in face of autism danger

Hong Kong has escaped the anti-MMR childhood vaccine movement - linking the jab to autism - which spread across many English-speaking countries in the past decade.

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