Pulmonology

18 Sep 2012

Little Danny Lai was having a rough two weeks. The 23-month-old toddler had diarrhoea, low-grade fever and a persistent cough that would not go away.

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TB checks for all new students included in draft amendment to health regulation

17 Aug 2012

All newly enrolled students and people working in the food, drugs and cosmetics industries should be screened for tuberculosis to prevent the spread of the highly contagious disease, according to...

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Patient gets her second wind

31 Jul 2012

Elaine Wong, 50, is no stranger to challenges. She was born with a congenital bone condition called osteogenesis imperfecta that made her bones fragile and twisted her spine.

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Joint effort boosts global battle against TB

12 Jul 2012

A recent breakthrough in the global war against tuberculosis has not only raised hopes for the millions of people living with the disease, it has also highlighted what can be achieved through...

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A lucky old puffer

8 May 2012

Every day for the past five decades, Jerry Wang, 71, would smoke 21/2 packs of cigarettes. Predictably, he racked up a host of health problems along the way: high blood pressure, gout, gastric...

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Doctors join forces to cut soaring lung cancer toll

1 May 2012

Doctors dealing with lung cancer on the mainland, the world's largest consumer and producer of tobacco, have set up the first association focused on battling the disease and its causes.

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Opinion

Hari Kumar

Workers pay the price for our bargains

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Howard Winn

Barry Cheung makes waves in Moscow

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Grieving family accuses hospital

Relatives of a previously healthy elderly man who died two days after being treated in a Kowloon hospital say he was discharged too soon and misdiagnosed.

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Beijing faces funding crisis for TB treatment

With a global health fund withdrawing, the mainland is scrambling to find the means to support its fight against tuberculosis, which the WHO estimates infects 1.3 million mainlanders every year...

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Drug cocktail raises hope for sufferers

In an ambitious effort to stem the deadly tide of TB and deadly multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB) around the world, international non-profit organisation TB Alliance yesterday launched a clinical...

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Doctors removed his lung, but cancer was in his blood

When Rocky Perez went into the operating theatre to have his left lung and the tumour it contained removed in June last year, he was hoping to walk out healthy.

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Probe as scarlet fever kills girl

The Department of Health has launched an investigation after the death of a 14-year-old girl from scarlet fever yesterday. This follows a 10-fold increase last year in the number of children...

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Virus

Virus
by James Rose
Random Ax Media (e-book)

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