Doctors missed crucial signs in patients’ X-rays in fatal lung cancer...
As many as eight doctors missed abnormalities in X-rays in three patients, two of whom were eventually diagnosed with lung cancer, hospital authorities revealed on Friday. Announcing the results of an...
View Article‘I feel like I could work to death’: Hong Kong’s weary nurses share tales...
As Hong Kong’s public hospitals reel from the flu season crisis, overburdened nurses are taking to social media to vent their frustration, but also to share positive tales and remind themselves amid...
View ArticleBalmy start to Year of the Pig forecast for Hong Kong but flu still a threat,...
The Year of the Pig is expected to start with warm and humid weather in Hong Kong but doctors are still urging the public to guard against flu after the rampant spread of the virus this winter. Sunday...
View ArticleAnswer to overcrowding in Hong Kong’s public hospitals may lie in paying...
The Hong Kong Public Doctors’ Association has said the government should subsidise patients for private medical treatment while capping private health care fees, as a way of easing the pressure on the...
View ArticleHong Kong man drowns during night dive off Po Toi island, in second such...
A man died during a dive in Hong Kong’s southern waters on Sunday night. A friend found him unconscious shortly after he went into the water. The diver was rushed back to shore at Blake Pier in...
View ArticleThree-day suspension of live pig supplies unlikely to affect Hongkongers over...
Pigs may be taking centre stage this Lunar New Year, but some people in Hong Kong are steering clear of pork dishes during the festivities for the Year of the Pig amid rising concerns about African...
View ArticleA flexible approach to eating is good for you and for the planet. In the Year...
The idea of promoting vegetable-rich diets and encouraging people to reduce meat consumption has become a topic of intense discussion the world over the past few years. Very often, the argument centres...
View ArticleHong Kong doctors investigating after first death of the year from...
A 55-year-old man with underlying illnesses has died from legionnaires’ disease, the first such death in the city this year, according to health authorities. The Centre for Health Protection (CHP)...
View ArticleHow your smartphone battery can power the re-industrialisation of Hong Kong’s...
Entrepreneur Eric Wong Sing-hung sees a waste crisis on the horizon and has a big idea to solve it. Smartphone in hand, the 70-year-old taps the back of its case – batteries. Specifically, the...
View ArticleCanada reports world’s first case of rat-to-human hepatitis E infection...
A case of rat-to-human hepatitis E infection has been documented in Canada, the first to be reported outside Hong Kong. The case, concerning a middle-aged Canadian man who had visited Africa,...
View ArticleHow Hong Kong electricity company CLP is saving millions of dollars, and...
Vincent Yan Kwok-hung’s childhood dream was to fly planes. Things did not quite work out the way he had imagined – he is now an engineer at power utility CLP – but he takes comfort in the fact he has...
View ArticlePork back on the menu in Hong Kong after live pigs return following three-day...
Live pigs were back on Hong Kong butchers’ tables on Friday, after a three-day ban on fresh pork to allow the city’s slaughterhouses to be cleaned amid concerns over African swine fever. Butchers at...
View ArticleCows go foraging in Lantau Island supermarket, which Hong Kong animal...
A supermarket on Lantau Island had some unexpected visitors on Thursday night, when a group of hungry bulls wandered the aisles and fed on fruit, prompting a concern group to call for more public...
View ArticleDisabled Hong Kong tour guides get creative in building careers by making...
At first glance, Vincent Li Pok looks like your average 33-year-old Hongkonger, sporting a neat undercut, blue shirt and khakis. But as he introduces the history of Sunbeam Theatre in North Point to...
View ArticleAs threat of global warming becomes deadly reality, what can Hong Kong do to...
In parts of the United States this month wind chills brought already Arctic temperatures down to minus 39 degrees Celsius. More than 20 people died as a result of the polar vortex. Meanwhile, in...
View ArticleBulls invading ParknShop supermarket a one-off, Hong Kong conservation chief...
A bizarre incident last week in which hungry bulls wandered the aisles of a Lantau Island supermarket was rare and likely to be a one-off, Hong Kong’s conservation chief said on Sunday. But he admitted...
View ArticleLack of sleep could damage DNA and affect repair ability, possibly raising...
Sleep deprivation can damage DNA and the body’s ability to repair this, possibly leading to higher chances of genetic diseases such as cancer, a study has found. The University of Hong Kong research,...
View ArticleIs Hong Kong’s fishing industry being thrown a lifeline and will the farmers...
In the winter of 2015, rare toxic algal blooms began spreading across Hong Kong waters. Lee Muk-kam’s floating fish farm in the sheltered bay off Tai Po’s Sam Mun Tsai was one of the mariculture zones...
View ArticleTwo porpoise carcasses found on separate Hong Kong shores, bringing number of...
Two porpoise carcasses were found on separate Hong Kong shores on Sunday, bringing the total number of stranded cases involving the marine animal to 15 this year – a figure that was alarming,...
View ArticleHealth service bureaucracy has gone too far says head of Hong Kong’s oldest...
The head of Hong Kong’s oldest medical school has said the Hospital Authority is too bureaucratic and questioned whether extra meetings truly benefit patients. In a rare display of public disagreement,...
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