by | Nov 5, 2019
At first glance, the findings on migrant families would overwhelmingly suggest migration does harm. They suffer higher divorce and death rates, for instance, and the children face greater likelihood of being institutionalised. But that portrait tells an incomplete...
by | Nov 1, 2019
Hirschsprung disease is a congenital affliction in which babies are born with a bowel that lacks nerve cells to control movement along the gut. The only option for treatment is to surgically remove the affected part of the bowel. But about one-third to one-half of...
by | Nov 1, 2019
When the world’s first ‘test-tube’ baby, Louise Brown, was born in 1978, it was heralded as the dawn of a new era for infertile couples. By using donated eggs, sperm and/or surrogates, they could at last become parents.But the new era has not been such a simple matter...
by | Nov 1, 2019
“Better have your baby before you’re 37” is advice that Professor Kui Liu of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology likes to give his students in a light-hearted manner. The line draws a laugh but everyone in the room knows that this statement is no joke.A...
by | Nov 1, 2019
The more things change, the more they remain the same, as Dr Carol Tsang of the Department of History has discovered. Her area of research is women’s health and reproduction in Hong Kong and China, and her female students and acquaintances keep reminding her that...
