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Japan

Japanese stem cell research helps treat spinal injuries

Paralysis caused by serious spinal cord injuries affects more than 150,000 patients in Japan alone, with 5,000 new cases each year.

Hong Kong society

Letters | Hong Kong’s healthcare system needs a dose of empathy

Hong Kong healthcare and hospitals

Hong Kong chronic disease subsidy scheme to cover tests to detect high cholesterol

Wellness

Ozempic workouts are the latest exercise craze, but are they anything new?

Workouts at gyms to combat muscle loss caused by GLP-1 drugs are gaining traction, but do they differ from regular strength training?

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Trainers are targeting patients on GLP-1 weight-loss drugs. Some say the workouts are just regular resistance training repackaged. Photo: Shutterstock
Hong Kong healthcare and hospitals

Hong Kong A&E wards aim to cut wait times for urgent patients with fee change

Hospital Authority says it hopes to meet its service target of treating 90 per cent of urgent patients in A&E within 30 minutes.

United States

US Senate Democrats demand reversal of CDC mass firings

Firings puts lives of Americans and people across the world at risk, senators argue.

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Science

Chinese breakthrough challenges Elon Musk’s verdict on paralysed patients

Patients with spinal cord injuries have been offered the chance to walk again after the success of a Chinese trial.

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Four patients with spinal cord injuries were able to move their limbs hours after groundbreaking surgery as part of a clinical trial led by Shanghai’s Fudan University. Photo: Fudan University
Education in Hong Kong

PolyU makes bold offer to pay for set-up cost of Hong Kong’s new medical school

Council chairman Lam Tai-fai says the institution can cover costs if needed, until the school moves into the Ngai Tam Mei campus.

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Hong Kong healthcare and hospitals

Race for third Hong Kong medical school hots up, but which university is ahead?

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Baptist University and Polytechnic University have now submitted their proposals.

Middle East

Professor deported to Lebanon supported Hezbollah leader, US says

US visa holder Dr Rasha Alawieh was removed after US officials found photos of Hezbollah figure on her phone.

Demonstrators protest the deportation of Dr Rasha Alawieh of Brown University at the State House in Providence, Rhode Island. Photo: AFP
Science

Chinese scientists turn tumours to ‘pork’ in radical cancer treatment

Researchers in China have used the body’s own immune system to kill cancerous cells in a pioneering new therapy.

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A pioneering new cancer treatment tricks the body into thinking tumours are pig cells which leads to an immune response which targets the cancer cells. Photo: Shutterstock
Wellness

10 things about dementia to ask a doctor to keep your brain healthy

Dementia risk factors range from mental health to diet. Ask your doctor about them to help you slow down or prevent the onset of disease.

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Disease

Letters | As Asia’s grapples with a diabetes crisis, more genetics nurses could help

Readers discuss the role of genetics nurses in the region, and a court case involving a film in Malaysia.

Biomedicine: Companies

Chinese drug maker Akeso hailed as biotech’s ‘DeepSeek moment’ amid US rivalry

Akeso’s immunotherapy drug allowed half of its patients to go 11.1 months without their condition worsening.

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Akeso founder and CEO Michelle Xia. Photo: Handout
Wellness

3D bioprinter that makes humanlike tissue should improve drug testing

The coffee-machine-sized printer produces 3D humanlike tissue that should allow for better testing and development of medicines.

A 3D bioprinter created by researchers at Newcastle University in the UK produces humanlike tissue that could make drug testing more accurate and speed up research. Photo: New castle University
Hong Kong healthcare and hospitals

Hong Kong health chief confirms patients may pay separate fees for scans like MRIs

Health minister Lo Chung-mau says hospitalised patients and those visiting emergency rooms would be excluded from proposed move.

Donald Trump

Trump drops vaccine critic Dave Weldon as nominee to head CDC

The surprise move came hours before his confirmation hearing, making Weldon the first Trump pick to be withdrawn from consideration.

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Hong Kong healthcare and hospitals

Explainer | Are Hongkongers paying too little for healthcare? Breaking down the costs

Subsidy rate is among highest in developed economies, as government looks at possible fee changes to crack down on abuse.

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The government currently covers almost 98 per cent of the cost of public healthcare services. Photo: Jelly Tse
South Korea

South Korean medical schools threaten to expel striking students

The government proposed increasing the medical school admission quota to address a doctor shortage, but students argue poor working conditions are the real issue.

Hong Kong

She tried several careers but found her niche in genetic sequencing

PostMag talks to 5 women innovators at the top of their game and pushing the boundaries of scientific discovery – here we meet Angela Wu, a professor at HKUST’s division of life science and department of chemical and biological engineering.

Two Sessions 2025

China urged to prepare students for challenges of AI and ageing population

At ‘two sessions’, Chinese lawmakers and political advisers call for changes to education system to ‘solve future problems’.

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Some lawmakers warn that China’s universities do not offer enough specialised medical programmes focused on treating the elderly. Photo: Peking University
Australia

His heart will go on: Australian man survives for 105 days with titanium heart

The artificial heart uses magnetic levitation – the same technology used in high-speed trains – to pump blood around the body.

A BiVacor artificial heart. Its makers say the long-term goal is for patients to live with the device indefinitely without needing a transplant. Photo: BiVacor
Cancer

Groundbreaking cancer therapies are the goal for this biotech innovator

PostMag talks to 5 women innovators at the top of their game and pushing the boundaries of scientific discovery: here we meet Gina Jiang, managing director of the Hong Kong Institute of Biotechnology.

Hong Kong healthcare and hospitals

Hong Kong reviews HK$15 prescriptions in bid to boost cancer drug resources

Hospital Authority official says the aim of adjusting fees is not to save costs but to boost resources for patients with cancer and rare diseases.

Wellness

How self-checks can save you from skin, breast and testicular cancer

If you check your body regularly for changes, you can detect cancer early. Here is how, from spotting moles to feeling for breast lumps.

Ask your partner to check your back for any unusual moles. Photo: Shutterstock
Wellness

‘The lower the semen quality, the lower the life expectancy’: study

Men with the highest counts of swimming sperm can expect to live 2 to 3 years longer than those with poor semen quality, research shows.

Men with a higher count of healthy sperm could live an extra two or three years compared o those with lower counts, according to a recent study. Illustration: Shutterstock
Wellness

Explainer | Ayurveda, TCM share approach to healing. How else are they similar?

Ancient medical systems have much in common, including a focus on the individual, not the disease. We compare and contrast their features.

Wellness

Why do I keep fainting? It could be something to do with the heart

Fainting takes different forms, a heart doctor says; a drop in blood pressure can cause it – or it can be a sign of a serious condition.

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