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The three-day exemption from new mortuary charges effective next year at Hong Kong public hospitals will be extended to four weeks, the government has said, after the move sparked controversy. The Hea...
A Singaporean battery recycling start-up has been crowned overall winner at this year’s EPIC start-up investment competition hosted by the Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corp. One hundred semi...
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Mortuary charges set to be introduced at Hong Kong public hospitals next year could unfairly penalise families for delays in after-death arrangements, an industry association has argued, despite autho...
Hong Kong’s Department of Health is under mounting pressure to explain its role in a 15-year delay in the handling of a complaint involving an alleged blunder that left a child disabled for life. Call...
Hong Kong’s Medical Council will look into its decision to terminate an inquiry into a paediatrician accused of a medical blunder that left a child with cerebral palsy and quadriplegia, after the city...
Hong Kong reported its third locally acquired chikungunya infection on Monday, with health authorities saying that there could be a second source of the disease as this case was not related to the two...
The debt-ridden Chinese University of Hong Kong Medical Centre (CUHKMC) cut the prices of more than 1,000 service items, or around one-fifth of those available, this month to help attract more patient...
A top university in Hong Kong has said it aims to test 9,000 adults aged under 44 to identify their risk of diabetes and provide interventions to delay or prevent its onset. Researchers from the Chine...
Hong Kong’s first large-scale genome sequencing project has recruited more than 52,000 participants in about four years of operation, exceeding its original target, with the body behind it hoping to e...
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Hong Kong reported two imported cases of chikungunya on Saturday, both of whom were hospitalised and are now in stable condition, bringing the total number of cases this year to 54, according to healt...
Hong Kong has confirmed its second locally acquired chikungunya fever infection, with the patient’s viral sample found to match that of the first domestic case. The Centre for Health Protection said o...
Hong Kong health authorities have ordered a review of the city’s Medical Council after it terminated an inquiry into a paediatrician due to a prolonged procedural delay of 8½ years, as the regulatory ...
Hong Kong patients enrolled in government subsidised healthcare services will be able to buy medicines under a specific list of drugs at prices much lower than market rates when a new initiative launc...
Hong Kong could face a higher risk of chikungunya fever spreading during the coming National Games as an outbreak across the border had yet to be brought under control, a leading infectious disease ex...
The University of Hong Kong has pioneered a first-of-its-kind clinical trial that integrates lipofilling surgical practices with breast conservation, providing a new solution for cancer patients that ...
Researchers from Hong Kong and the United Kingdom have together developed a new predictive model that can estimate the lifetime risk of diabetic patients having a stroke, cancer and premature death, e...
An expanded medical fee waiver mechanism under public healthcare reforms in Hong Kong will open for applications from patients on Monday, months before the new policy takes effect next year. The Hospi...
A patients’ group has accused Hong Kong’s Medical Council of setting a “bad and unjust” precedent that could allow doctors to evade responsibility after it terminated an inquiry into a paediatrician d...