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22 November, 2024
Medicine
Novel drug awaits Hong Kong diabetics suffering from debilitating eye disease
Oculis’ OCS-01 eye drops, currently in phase 3 trials for diabetic macular edema, can be an alternative to injection, CEO says.
16 Dec 2024 - 9:07AM
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Health & Fitness
China expands health insurance coverage with 91 new drugs, innovative treatments
29 Nov 2024 - 4:42PM
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Biomedicine: Companies
Germany’s BioNTech buys Biotheus in US$800 million push into cancer drugs
14 Nov 2024 - 11:57AM
Wellness
New weight-loss drugs coming to Hong Kong, and what they can do
Semaglutide and tirzepatide helped Texas woman Kathryn Dean lose 18kg and keep the weight off, and she is no longer diagnosed as prediabetic.
22 Oct 2024 - 7:51AM
Wellness
The scientists behind the development of obesity drugs like Ozempic
Developed to treat diabetes, drugs like Ozempic now help fight obesity. Scientists newly honoured for working on them recall their findings.
22 Oct 2024 - 10:02AM
Hong Kong healthcare and hospitals
How Hong Kong researchers aim to turn bugs into drugs to treat autism, dementia
Microbiota I-Centre researchers have isolated 200 to 300 types of bacteria with therapeutic potential and hope one day to develop them into medications.
15 Sep 2024 - 10:00AM
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Wellness
Weight-loss drugs help with heart attack, stroke, fertility, kidneys
Ozempic and similar weight-loss drugs can lower the risk of heart attack, stroke, kidney and liver disease, and even increase fertility.
22 Oct 2024 - 10:05AM
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Hong Kong healthcare and hospitals
How will coming medicine approval regime help Hongkongers? New, better drugs
Authorities plan to set up Hong Kong Centre for Medical Products Regulation in 2026-27, tasking it with conducting primary drug approvals.
28 Aug 2024 - 8:30AM
Science
Chinese and US scientists create AI model to help develop new drugs
ActFound performed better in tests than competing models and could offer a cost-effective alternative to traditional methods.
26 Aug 2024 - 6:30PM
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Science
Chinese scientists’ quantum computing pipeline could change drug design
Researchers say quantum computing could ‘revolutionise’ pharmaceuticals as they reveal new drug design approach.
28 Jul 2024 - 6:25PM
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Wellness
Patients stop taking ‘miracle’ weight-loss drugs like Ozempic, study finds
Joe Biden says they’re too expensive, and price may be one reason most patients given ‘miracle’ diabetes drugs such as Ozempic and Zepbound for weight loss stop taking them within 2 years, according to US data.
22 Oct 2024 - 10:03AM
Hong Kong healthcare and hospitals
Could Hong Kong patients benefit from a streamlined drug approval process?
Approval process is slowed down by current requirements, say experts calling for a change of rules.
7 Oct 2023 - 5:19PM
Wellness
We need new ideas to beat cancer, top experts say. Here’s what they suggest
The future of cancer treatment and beating the disease should involve better identifying people at risk, smarter trials, earlier testing and driving forward new drugs, two cancer experts say.
9 May 2023 - 7:27PM
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Cancer
The good news about cancer: new treatments point the way to eventual cures
While the ‘war on cancer’ is far from won, survival rates are at an all-time high, thanks to new therapies, drugs and vaccines. They are pointing the way to potentially revolutionary advances in treatment - and cures.
5 Aug 2022 - 7:55PM
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