• Company in eastern Zhejiang province accused of luring elderly clients with offer of free eggs and noodles, then duping them into buying high-priced elixirs.

Prince of Wales Hospital in Sha Tin found the carcinogenic material, which was widely used for insulation and fireproofing in construction before it was banned in Hong Kong over 30 years ago.

Last year, Chinese researcher He Jiankui rocked the scientific community with his announcement that he helped make the world’s first gene-edited babies.

Britain’s National Portrait Gallery and Sackler Trust issued a joint statement saying the gift for the museum’s Inspiring People project won’t proceed. The trust is run by the Sackler family, members of which own Purdue Pharma, which makes prescription painkiller OxyContin.

The research identified four types of breast cancer with ‘exceedingly high risk’ of relapse. The findings open new avenues for treatment and screening of at-risk patients.

Forgetting whether you need milk at the shop is annoying but then there are false memories, when you are convinced bread was on the list when it wasn’t – and nothing anyone says will make you change your mind.

The discovery explains why it is difficult to wean alcoholics off drinking, but also opens the doors to preventing addiction by intervening early on.

‘If you’re coming to tell us we want to put you on a morphine drip until you die, it should be done by a human being and not a machine,’ said patient’s daughter.

Wang Zhigang condemns research such as He Jiankui’s manipulation of twins’ DNA and admits law is struggling to keep up with technological changes.

The spray acts within hours, rather than weeks or months as is typical for current antidepressants.

The major study detected no increased risk of autism in children who had the MMR vaccine and no evidence that it triggered autism in susceptible children.

Peter Zhu was declared brain-dead days after a skiing accident and his family raced against time to get a rare procedure performed to ‘preserve his legacy’. He was the only child in his family.

Realistically it is not always possible to meet our nutritional needs all the time with the food we eat. We asked several nutritionists which supplements they suggest to help make up some of the more important deficiencies.

Breakthrough comes 12 years after Timothy Brown, the so-called ‘Berlin patient’, became the first person cured of HIV.

As the Hong Kong public health system struggles, authorities need to ensure that the Greater Bay Area brings benefits to the sector and does not make the shortage of doctors worse.

At least 17 people have been hospitalised in the US after being injected with products made from umbilical cord blood. Stem cell treatments are booming, even as health authorities ring alarm bells about some of their unproven claims.

Financial Secretary Paul Chan delivers his third budget for Hong Kong on Wednesday. In the second part of a series on the spending plan, we look at the issues surrounding the city’s public health care system.

Chinese University of Hong Kong confirms proposals but plays down fears it will lead to brain drain in the city.

Professor Lau Chak-sing calls for change in rules governing medical professionals trained overseas, as debate rages about how to solve staffing shortage in public hospitals.

The team will transplant 2 million cells into the spines of the patients, who will then go through rehabilitation and be monitored for a year

A ban on the sale (but not use) of e-cigarettes will only push young people to black markets, or perhaps to traditional tobacco products that may be even less healthy.

Only the best swimming sperm can make it though tight spots known as strictures that act like gates on the journey from cervix to egg.

Acupuncture, faith healing, chiropractic and meditation are among the therapies examined in Melanie Warner’s book The Magic Feather Effect. She looks for the middle ground between sceptics and enthusiastic disciples.

Several Stanford professors have said they were in contact with He Jiankui over the last year.

Known as leung cha, herbal tea is found throughout south China, and tea shops have been a familiar fixture of the Hong Kong landscape for more than a hundred years.

You may know about your appendix, but what about your auricular muscles or plica semilunaris? These vestigial body parts all became obsolete as we evolved into hominids; so too will wisdom teeth and body hair in due course.

Two patients were diagnosed with the disease, and one who visited Prince of Wales Hospital, died in January.