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‘No time to be a detective’: medics warn of split-second calls under new end-of-life law

1 day ago02 mins

Hong Kong’s new legislation on end-of-life directives could create significant operational challenges, including verifying patients’ wishes in emergencies and affordability barriers for low-income families, according to frontline responders and patient advocates. The warnings come a week before the Advance Decision on Life-sustaining Treatment Ordinance takes effect next Friday. Under the law, a formal legal framework…

Hong Kong launches 3-year action plan to help residents fight the flab

5 months ago02 mins

Hong Kong has launched its first action plan on weight management, aiming to reduce the proportion of people who are overweight or obese to less than half the population in three years from the current 51.3 per cent of adults. On Wednesday, World Obesity Day, the Department of Health announced more than 40 measures, ranging…

Chinese or Western medicine? Hong Kong to help residents decide

7 months ago02 mins

Hong Kong health authorities will guide residents on when to seek Chinese medicine treatment, identifying conditions where it is considered more effective than the Western practice in the sector’s development blueprint. Commissioner for Chinese Medicine Development Vincent Chung Chi-ho said on Saturday that only 9 per cent of the about 10,000 Chinese medicine practitioners in…

A mobile app intervention to support nutrition education for heart failure management: co-design, development and user-testing | BMC Nutrition

Cs news1 year ago021 mins

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