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Hong Kong healthcare and hospitals

Hong Kong launches 3-year action plan to help residents fight the flab

Proportion of Hongkongers who are obese or overweight has been rising in recent decades.

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Wellness

Why electrolyte drinks like Gatorade and Pocari Sweat aren’t always beneficial

Wellness

Paging Dr Chatbot? 5 things to know before you ask AI about your health

Education in Hong Kong

HKUST may reserve 20% of first medical school intake for non-locals

School to welcome first batch of 50 students in 2028-29, with most non-locals expected to be from mainland China.

The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology campus in Clearwater Bay. Photo: Nora Tam
Science

Biomedicine | China AI boosts cancer screening, rare disease diagnosis

Artificial intelligence is among new technologies being used in China in patient-specific healthcare, known as personalised or precision medicine.

Made in China 2025

Hong Kong-listed Chinese drug firms set to turn corner on rising sales, deals

Chinese pharmaceutical firms are poised for profit growth, driven by innovative drug sales and licensing deals, despite pricing pressures.

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Wellness

Explainer | All about TCM’s ‘miracle pill’ Angong Niuhuang Wan, and when not to take it

The prized Angong Niuhuang Wan is thought to help stroke victims if taken at the right time. But when is that, and can it harm you?

Angong Niuhuang Wan is among the most prized traditional Chinese medicine formulas and costs an eye-watering amount. But do the pills actually help prevent and treat strokes, and can they be harmful? A Hong Kong-based TCM practitioner helps us understand more. Photo: Shandong Hongjitang Pharmaceutical Group
Wellness

It’s not ‘all in your head’: women’s pain really lasts longer, study finds

Myth-busting findings that immune system differences cause chronic pain to persist longer for women highlight the need for better treatment.

Wellness

Women’s heart attack symptoms and risk factors differ from men’s. Here’s what to know

Women’s heart attacks often have more subtle symptoms and sex-specific risks. Experts provide preventive measures to protect your body.

Wellness

Parents of Hong Kong’s ‘Girl Behind the Face’ finally share their story

Mui Thomas’s story of living with a rare skin disease has moved many. Now, her adoptive parents share why they ignored advice to ‘walk away’.

Rog and Tina Thomas pose for a picture with their daughter, Mui, whom they adopted 30 years ago, in a Facebook post from 2015. Mui was born with Harlequin ichthyosis, a rare and often fatal genetic disorder. Rog and Tina now share their story in their new book, An Unexpected Adoption: The Girl Behind The Face.
Wellness

‘I could not walk’: how exercise helped a mother manage serious knee pain

With surgery off the table, Hong Kong-based Kavita Biswas forced herself to strengthen the muscles around the knee.

Kavita Biswas could barely walk short distances before she started physiotherapy and resistance training to strengthen the muscles around her knee. Now the osteoarthritis sufferer can walk for up to 45 minutes at a time and manages her daily life independently. Photo: Kavita Biswas
Wellness

Is magnetic heating technology a new weapon in the fight against cancer?

America’s Mayo Clinic is testing Israeli technology that targets solid tumours with fast-rising heat in a process it calls hyperthermia.

Science

Scientists test universal vaccine for cold, flu, Covid and allergies

The nasal spray works to protect the lungs of mice, and could eventually replace multiple jabs if shown to be effective and safe for humans.

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Japan

Japan approves world’s first regenerative medicines using iPS cells

Drugs made with iPS, or induced pluripotent stem cells, will be used to treat patients with severe heart failure and Parkinson’s disease.

A heart muscle sheet derived from human stem cells at the University of Osaka. Photo: Kyodo
Wellness

How the cancer that killed James Van Der Beek is threatening more under-50s

No one knows what is causing the rise in colorectal cancer cases in younger adults. Here are the symptoms and who is most at risk.

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Ageing society

Opinion | Hong Kong should see the ‘silver economy’ as a golden opportunity

The city could reframe its ageing trend by working to become a global capital for ‘longevity finance’ and supporting East-West healthcare innovations.

Hong Kong healthcare and hospitals

Repurposed kidney drug may offer hope to infertile women, Hong Kong study finds

Researchers say finerenone may provide affordable treatment with few side effects for women affected by premature ovarian insufficiency.

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Foreigners flock to China for cheaper medical treatment, drawn by free visa policy

Number of foreign visits to mainland hospitals spikes to 1.28 million in 2025, a rise of 73 per cent on the number 3 years ago.

Many foreigners are seeking medical treatment in China, attracted by the free visa policy and lower costs compared to their home countries. Photo: SCMP composite/Shutterstock/Xinhua
Hong Kong healthcare and hospitals

Opinion | Fee hikes are only half the equation if Hong Kong health reform is to work

If paired with viable service alternatives, clear guidance and a stronger focus on prevention, price rises could become a catalyst for real change.

Hong Kong healthcare and hospitals

Medical Council to set time frame for sorting complaints under proposed shake-up

Proposed measures follow ombudsman slamming watchdog for excessively lengthy complaint-handling process.

Hong Kong healthcare and hospitals

Patients given more hope as study finds best time for lung cancer treatment

‘Highly encouraging’ results uncovered after immunochemotherapy administered at different times in two groups of patients.

Lung cancer is the most common and deadliest cancer in Hong Kong. Photo: Getty Images
Donald Trump

‘Save a fortune’: Trump unveils TrumpRx discount drug site

New platform connects American patients directly to drug makers with promised price cuts on popular medications like Ozempic.

US President Donald Trump at the TrumpRx website launch. Photo: EPA
Wellness

What is cancer ‘prehab’? How patients are getting a head start in recovery

On World Cancer Day on February 4, we look at how cancer prehabilitation helps patients recover more quickly and better handle treatment.

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Wellness

How mono or ‘the kissing disease’ may increase your risk for lupus, arthritis

The Epstein-Barr virus behind mono, which spreads through saliva, sits silently in the body but can reactivate.

Hong Kong healthcare and hospitals

Editorial | Properly supervised, weight-loss drugs have a place in Hong Kong

While ensuring that Hongkongers who need the drugs have access to them, the authorities must act against the grey market for the medication.

Advertisements of a weight-loss drug are seen in the Tsim Sha Tsui MTR station on January 21. Photo: Jelly Tse
Hong Kong healthcare and hospitals

Hong Kong health chief seeks to speed up Medical Council’s complaint handling

But Secretary for Health Lo Chung-mau warns against ‘arbitrarily’ adding non-professional members to watchdog.

(Left to right) Candy Yip, a family member of a victim of a medical incident; Tim Pang from the Society for Community Organisation; and mainland Chinese parents Lai Zhijin and Peng Hongying, who are fighting for answers after their son’s hospital ordeal. Photo: Jelly Tse
Wellness

Why these common painkillers might be bad news for long distance runners

NSAIDs strain the kidneys, as does endurance running, and many race organisers advise against taking the anti-inflammatories during events.

Hong Kong healthcare and hospitals

‘Don’t blindly follow’ US changes to infant vaccines, Hong Kong parents told

Warning comes after US health authorities scaled back routine child vaccine recommendations, leaving key shots to parental choice.

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