The pearl report [2017]
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23:29 31. Vegan families
2017-08-14
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"Vegans are vegetarians who only eat plant-based food, no dairy and eggs. Some even spurn animal-derived goods such as leather. More than 20% of Hong Kongers refrain from meat at least once a week but...
23:39 32. Second chances
2017-08-21
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"You've been diagnosed with a serious illness, but what if the doctor is wrong? A US study found 88% of patients seeking a 2nd medical opinion left with a different diagnosis. Also, the internet facil...
23:59 33. Online refuge
2017-08-28
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"HK youths are following a world trend in spending more time online, to the point of addiction for some. Parents are advised the best way to combat that is to spend more time with their kids, and not ...
23:29 34. Mayhem in Macau
2017-09-04
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"A fatal typhoon that recently battered Macau exposed flaws in its weather forecasting and warning systems, its flood prevention, its electricity supply mechanism, its rescue and emergency relief oper...
22:59 35. Shaw prize 2017. Life science & medicine
2017-09-11
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"Two men now calling the San Francisco Bay Area home, are sharing this year's Shaw Prize for Life Science and Medicine. Ian Gibbons and Ron Vale found motor proteins that move components around in our...
24:14 36. Shaw prize 2017. Astronomy ; Shaw prize 2017. Mathematical sciences
2017-09-18
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"Prof. Simon White won for contributing to the understanding of structure formation of the universe, how galaxies develop. He's also an originator of the cold dark matter paradigm"--TVB website. "Alge...
23:59 37. Rarely recognised
2017-09-25
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"350 million people worldwide have rare diseases. HK has 800 sufferers. But the government has no official policy to subsidies life-saving medication for them. And new drugs are slow in coming here. I...
23:29 38. Gerontechnology
2017-10-02
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"In 20 years' time, 1 in 3 people in HK will be aged 65 or above. Gerontechnology is helping people in their twilight years, to enhance their medical care, their mobility, their memory, their moods an...
23:44 39. Fatitude
2017-10-09
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"Being overweight isn't a standard of pulchritude nowadays. And obesity is seen as a global health scourge. Fat people face workplace discrimination and hurtful sobriquets. So do how chubby people in ...
23:29 40. Hepatitus B : a time bomb
2017-10-16
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"About 1 in 8 people in HK has Hepatitus B. The condition has no symptoms, so many carriers of the virus are oblivious, neglect proper treatment, and at risk of dying from drug misuse, liver cancer or...
