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Methanol is a toxic alcohol used in industrial and household products. Unscrupulous producers sometimes add it to alcoholic drinks to make them more potent. Methanol poisoning recently killed six tourists in Laos. Photo: Shutterstock
Wellness

Explainer | Methanol poisoning, its symptoms and why it is so deadly

The deaths in Laos of six foreign tourists who had methanol-tainted drinks was a reminder of how lethal the industrial alcohol can be.

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Animals

Are pigeons really ‘rats with wings’ or merely misunderstood?

Hong Kong society

Editorial | Early detection key to Hong Kong’s fight against cancer

Wellness

Beer drinkers less healthy than wine drinkers, research shows. Why?

A survey finds beer drinkers more likely to smoke, exercise less and eat worse than wine and liquor drinkers. Researchers propose a reason.

People toast with beer and wine. Photo: Shutterstock
Hong Kong healthcare and hospitals

75% of sexually experienced young Hongkongers have not had HIV test: poll

Schools should offer more comprehensive sex education, including teaching young people about safety measures, academic says.

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Trending in China

Man in China suffers decades of depression after false boss blame, has Parkinson’s

Doctor says years of insomnia and depression had played significant role in onset of Parkinson’s disease in Wang.

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Wellness

How weight loss surgery and exercise helped 25-year-old lose 68kg

‘Morbidly obese’ Ese Milan tried weight-loss drugs, then had surgery; 68kg lighter, these days she works out and is still shedding the kilos.

Ese Milan, a Polynesian Samoan content creator in Las Vegas, had weight-loss surgery at age 22 and started strength training. She has lost 68kg since 2021. Photo: Instagram/ese.milan
Wellness

Is psilocybin the magic bullet for treating cluster headaches?

Neurologists call cluster headaches the most painful condition known. Psychedelics offer sufferers hope, but are illegal in most places.

Hong Kong healthcare and hospitals

Hong Kong infectious disease hero looks back at outbreaks, pandemic and career

Dr Owen Tsang, medical director of Hospital Authority Infectious Disease Centre, to be honoured for work on front lines of various outbreaks.

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Bangladesh

Bangladesh deaths from dengue cross 400 as outbreak worsens

Scientists say changing weather patterns are creating ideal conditions for dengue to flourish and spread.

A city corporation worker sprays fumigator to control mosquitoes, as number of dengue infected patients increase, in Bangladesh. File photo: Reuters
Wellness

She would drink until she passed out. Now she is a new woman

Corporate high-flier Julie Landau beat an alcohol addiction and in the process overcame her bulimia. Now she’s helping other women.

Having given up alcohol and broken free of bulimia’s grip, Julie Landau says she feels “lighter, freer and more like myself than ever before”. Now, instead of getting black-out drunk, she is into fitness and coaches women in power. Photo: Julie Landau
Hong Kong healthcare and hospitals

Hong Kong health experts urge clearer HIV testing guidelines for lower-risk groups

Surge in late HIV diagnosis cases prompts advice from experts to test beyond high-risk groups.

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SCMP Highlights

Recap | Diabetes facts you need to know, air pollution link to dementia and more health stories

Explore expert insights on diabetes, seasonal affective disorder, healthy ageing, dementia risks from air pollution and China’s weight-loss camps.

World Health Organization (WHO)

More than 800 million adults have diabetes globally, many untreated: study

The percentage of adults suffering from diabetes across the world has doubled over the past 30 years.

The global diabetes rate has doubled since 1990 from around 7 per cent to 14 per cent, the study suggested. File photo: Reuters
Wellness

9 crucial facts about diabetes, from worrying trends to how to avoid it

On World Diabetes Day, we talk to experts about the causes, symptoms and treatment of type 1 and 2 diabetes, and changes that can help.

Glucose monitors help people with diabetes keep track of their blood sugar levels. On World Diabetes Day we look at how to manage and even avoid type 2 diabetes, and other important facets of the disease. Photo: Shutterstock
Canada

Teen in critical condition with Canada’s first presumptive human case of bird flu

Officials are trying to figure out how the teen – who had no farm exposure – was infected.

Hong Kong healthcare and hospitals

Breast cancer now second most common form of disease in Hong Kong

Lung cancer remained the most prevalent type with 5,707 new cases recorded in 2022 while colorectal cancer was third.

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Hong Kong healthcare and hospitals

Celebrity weight-loss drug gets nod in Hong Kong but experts warn over use

Eli Lilly’s Mounjaro joins list of obesity and diabetes drugs made popular by celebrities who lost weight.

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US drug giant Eli Lilly has announced Mounjaro, for treating obesity and type 2 diabetes, has been approved by the Department of Health as a prescription-only medicine. Photo: Reuters
Wellness

Thin, beautiful, refined? In China, weight-loss camps promise all three

China’s growing obesity crisis sparks the popularity of strict camps aimed at fat loss for those who ‘can’t control their diet outside’.

Education in Hong Kong

26 Hong Kong pupils fall ill during study tour to Guangdong cities

Centre for Health Protection says 15 boys and 11 girls, aged 10 to 11, developed symptoms including vomiting, diarrhoea, abdominal pain and fever.

Science

China’s ‘bat lady’ Shi Zhengli opens path for new coronavirus research

Shi and a team of Chinese, US and Swiss researchers have developed a customised virus receptor that could pave way for new treatments.

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Shi Zhengli is best known for her research into coronviruses in Wuhan. Photo: AP
Wellness

How lifting weights gave 2 older Singaporeans stronger bones

He was 52 and had endless back pain; she was 62 and had osteoporosis. Weightlifting increased their bone density. Now both do powerlifting.

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When Raj Grover developed severe back pain, he hit upon a surprising remedy: lifting weights. Here he is seen squat lifting 155kg. Photo: Shaun Pang
Wellness

Celebs with adult ADHD help shine a light on the condition

More grown-ups are admitting to having adult ADHD, calling attention to a disorder that affects about 2.58 per cent of the global population.

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Hong Kong

Editorial | Covid case sends jabs reminder to Hong Kong parents

Ordeal of 10-month-old Hong Kong girl, whose condition has improved, gives reason to get children vaccinated against coronavirus and flu.

Wellness

Bruce Willis’ stutter masked his dementia, actor’s wife says

‘Just a part of a stutter,’ Emma Heming Willis thought. Then came dementia diagnosis. She’s writing a book to remind carers about self-care.

Willis at the UK premiere of Glass in 2019. Photo: EPA/EFE
American cinema

How Grand Theft Auto and World of Warcraft became virtual film sets

Filmmakers explain using Grand Theft Auto to host Shakespeare’s Hamlet and setting the life story of a dying gamer in World of Warcraft.

Custom characters from World of Warcraft and Blizzard Entertainment in a scene from the documentary “he Remarkable Life of Ibelin. Photo: World of Warcraft and Blizzard Entertainment/Netflix via AP
What to do in Hong Kong

5 wellness events this weekend in Hong Kong, November 1-3

Up your tennis game, sweat at a fitness fest with rescued dogs, combat anxiety at breathwork and meditation sessions or go to an autism fair.

Bird flu viruses

US spots 1st H5N1 bird flu case in a pig, raising concern for humans

There is concern that hybrid viruses can emerge from pigs with characteristics that allow them to infect humans more easily.

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9 September, 2024
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