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By , on June 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Physician and superstar microblogger Dr Yu Ying announced her resignation from the Peking Union Medical College Hospital last week <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Ten bedridden terminal cancer patients lie in the dimly lit, quiet hospice ward at the Jingan Temple Community Hospital in Shanghai. Most are cared for by auxiliary workers, who look after a few at a time. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 10th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Chinese-made Xian MA60 twin turboprop planes were involved in two landing mishaps yesterday. There were no deaths or serious injuries in either crash. The plane is badly damaged, I don’t think it can be used anymore MERPATI AIRLINES SPOKESMAN HERRY SAPTANTO A state-run Merpati Nusantara Airlines plane carrying 50 people landed hard at an airport in eastern Indonesia, slamming both engines onto the runway, while a domestic Myanma Airways flight swerved off the runway on landing in Myanmar. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 6th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Raymond Xie quit his job as an English teacher at a university in Guangxi early last year to join the gold rush in the west African country of Ghana. The 41-year-old and his partners spent about 3 million yuan (HK$3.76 million) establishing a small mine in Obuasi, in the Ashanti region, and set about making a fortune. Three million yuan is not enough to buy a three-bedroom flat in Beijing but it was enough to set Xie on the road to riches overseas as one of an estimated 50,000 Chinese gold miners in Ghana, most of them, like Xie, from Shanglin county. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 6th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> About 450 garment workers fell ill during their shifts at a sweater factory near Bangladesh’s capital, and authorities said on Thursday the water supply was suspected. Investigators from the government’s health ministry were testing the water at the Starlight Sweater Factory for possible contamination, area civil surgeon Syed Habibullah said. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 5th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> France said on Tuesday it has confirmed that the nerve gas sarin was used “multiple times and in a localised way” in Syria, including at least once by the regime. It was the most specific claim by any Western power about chemical weapons attacks in the 27-month-old conflict. Britain later said that tests it conducted on samples taken from Syria also were positive for sarin. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 4th, 2013 
The NHS in England missed its A&E target in the first three months of the year, with a sharp rise in those waiting more than four hours, researchers say.
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By , on June 3rd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Lawmakers and the insurance industry have lashed out at the government’s proposed standardised medical insurance plan, saying it has backed down from regulating private hospital prices. Under the new Health Protection Scheme (HPS), insurers would offer clients the choice of not paying, or paying a known extra amount, for certain procedures. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 3rd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A 66-year-old apparently male patient made a stunning discovery when he sought treatment for swelling in his abdomen. The swelling was a cyst on his ovary and he was in fact a woman. The condition was caused by a very rare combination of two genetic disorders. One, Turner’s syndrome, causes women to lack some female features, including the ability to get pregnant. Sufferers usually look like women, but in this case the patient also had congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH), which boosted the male hormones and made the patient look like a man. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 2nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Rights groups denounced police violence, with Amnesty International saying that there had been two deaths, while Turkey’s Western allies Britain and the United States called on the government to show restraint. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 2nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Michael Adebolajo, 28, has been charged with the murder of 25-year-old soldier Lee Rigby as well as the attempted murder of two police officers and possession of a firearm, London’s Metropolitan Police said <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 1st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> It would serve the many new housing developments planned for the site of the former airport, and would answer a longstanding complaint of Wong Tai Sin residents: that the densely populated district lacks adequate medical facilities close by. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 31st, 2013 A look at the season’s notable cooking, travel and gardening titles and more: books about Jewish humor, Jimmy Connors, and Mickey Mantle and Willie Mays.
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By , on May 31st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> You would have thought that having a smoking ban in Hong Kong would mean that World No Tobacco Day would be a big success. But yesterday, people were still happily puffing away in bars. In 2007, the city implemented a smoking ban that applied to all indoor public places to rid the city’s bars and restaurants of cigarette smoke. Meanwhile, yesterday’s World No Tobacco Day was intended to encourage a 24-hour period of abstinence from all forms of tobacco consumption across the globe. Each year. tobacco use leads to 5.4 million deaths worldwide. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 30th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Tung Chung is due to have its own hospital this year, but 24-hour accident and emergency services will not be available until the third quarter of next year due to a shortage of medical staff. North Lantau Hospital, under the Kowloon West Cluster, will open in late September, but operations will be launched in phases, with the accident and emergency department in service eight hours a day, from 9am to 5pm for the first stage. The hospital – near Yat Tung Estate – is a seven-storey, crescent-shaped block. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 30th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> When people have unhappy experiences with shops or companies, they usually complain to the Consumer Council and if that doesn’t work they go to court. But the council is now evaluating a possibly simpler and cheaper way of resolving disputes: arbitration. The watchdog announced yesterday that it was planning a feasibility study on establishing a consumer dispute arbitration system. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By By KIRK JOHNSON, on May 28th, 2013 One hospital tends to dozens of communities in a remote Alaskan region the size of Oregon, where medical decisions are filtered through an equation of time and distance.
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By , on May 28th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Police investigating the grisly murder of a soldier in London by two Islamists made another arrest on Monday, as 1,000 far-right protesters demonstrated near Prime Minister David Cameron’s office. A 50-year-old man, held on suspicion of conspiracy to murder, becomes the 10th person arrested over the hacking to death of 25-year-old Lee Rigby near a barracks in Woolwich on Wednesday. This includes the two prime suspects, Michael Adebolajo, 28, and Michael Adebowale, 22, who remain under armed guard in separate London hospitals after being shot by police at the murder scene. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 27th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Queen Elizabeth Hospital is at the centre of an inquest into an elderly patient’s sudden death after his discharge from care. Punnamali Swamy, 76, was admitted to Queen Elizabeth Hospital on March 19 last year after slipping and falling in his bathroom. He was discharged five days later, but was re-admitted in a semi-conscious state the following day. He died a day after that, his son, Rajsekar Swamy, told the coroner’s court yesterday. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 27th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> In 2010, Michael Adebolajo was arrested with five others near Kenya’s border with Somalia, Kenya’s anti-terrorism police unit chief Boniface Mwaniki said. Police believed Adebolajo was going to work with Somali militant group al-Shabab. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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China’s ‘Dr House’ resigns from post at public hospital
<!– google_ad_section_start –> Physician and superstar microblogger Dr Yu Ying announced her resignation from the Peking Union Medical College Hospital last week <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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