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Latest news and updates on healthcare and hospitals in Hong Kong, including medical issues, the impact of the city's ageing population, coronavirus pandemic and seasonal influenza outbreaks on the health system.

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Family of eight-year-old Hong Kong girl left in vegetative state for years after operation deserves empathy from community. Public hospitals treat most people in city and there have been relatively few serious medical blunders despite pandemic and staff shortages

  • Paul Yip, head of the university’s centre for suicide research, says system will start with data collection of daily cases when it launches in two to three months
  • ‘The early warning system operates similar to daily weather reports and it offers amber, red and black alerts,’ he says
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Rights group says slashing maximum course of medications from 16 to four weeks could force very ill patients to make extra trips to hospital, and pay more for drugs.

The Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics expects its CARES Copilot 1.0 system to help neurosurgeons provide ‘more efficient clinical diagnosis’.

Secrets of metastasis are key for researchers looking to create new early detection tools and therapies, says HKU cell biologist Alice Wong Sze-tsai.

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Deduction on assisted reproductive services expected to cover services obtained from both public and private clinics, while ones undergone outside city not eligible.

PolyU chief says 2.5 million population of Northern Metropolis will need a hospital, highlights university’s strengths in healthcare and artificial intelligence.

Readers discuss how to help patients in long-term cancer management, concerns about Article 23 legislation, and why Hongkongers should cultivate a sense of gratitude.

Growing number of elderly Hongkongers opting to live across the border, but concern groups say fundamental differences between local and mainland’s healthcare system still a deterrent.

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Club’s Lester Garson Huang says teenagers and elderly among those struggling with emotional, mental health issues as city recovers from Covid-19 pandemic.

Hongkongers eligible for subsidies will by the third quarter be able to spend them at seven additional hospitals and dental clinics in southern China. Fostering a stronger culture of preventive medicine will help ease the burden on local hospitals and clinics

HKUST president Nancy Ip confirms plans to set up the city’s third medical school to media for first time after lawmakers unveiled proposal last year.