HONG KONG – Hospitals in China are using fewer targeted therapies for lung cancer than their Western counterparts, despite China having the world’s highest number of lung cancer patients and Asians being more susceptible to the disease than Westerners, a leading local oncologist has warned.

HONG KONG – A common respiratory virus previously believed to cause only mild respiratory tract infections in children can cause more serious, life-threatening infections in adults than seasonal influenza, according to the findings of the largest retrospective cohort study of the respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) conducted in Asia to date.