South China Morning Post - Hong Kong Health & Environment

To head off a public health crisis, China is stepping up efforts to find new treatments for Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s disease. As its population ages, the country already has more cases of these neurodegenerative diseases than anywhere else in the world and their prevalence is rising faster than the global average. Cases of Parkinson’s disease in China are forecast to ...

A Hong Kong-born biomedical imaging expert and founding dean of a US institution has been appointed to head the city’s third medical school. In a statement released by the University of Science and Technology on Monday, physician-scientist King Li King-chuen, dean emeritus of Carle Illinois College of Medicine, said he would draw on his experience to work closely with partners i...

‘Silent killer’: the race to beat cancer in Hong Kong

Confronting cancer in Hong Kong

In the first of a six-part Health Matters wellness series on cancer in Hong Kong, Emily Hung looks into how the city takes on its leading cause of death while maintaining one of the lowest mortality rates in the developed world and what more it must do to excel as a hub for cancer research. When Hong Kong began modern cancer tracking in 1983, it recorded 15,000 new cases and a f...