by admin | Nov 8, 2020
Described on its website as ‘a mental health companion for you and your therapist’, Hollo was first conceived three years ago as a solution for young people with mental health issues who tended to fall between the gaps when it came to getting treatment.The concept...
by admin | Nov 7, 2020
A team led by Professor Ng Siu Man in the Department of Social Work and Social Administration, have made a major breakthrough in the detection of risk and prevention of relapse in schizophrenia with the development of an innovative assessment scale. Unlike existing...
by admin | Nov 7, 2020
POOR VENTILATION HELPS THE VIRUS SPREADHKU’s Department of Mechanical Engineering has shown that COVID-19 can be transmitted several metres by air when there is poor ventilation – a timely warning as winter approaches and people spend more time indoors. The...
by admin | May 3, 2020
HKU’s LKS Faculty of Medicine (HKUMed) has been at the forefront of research into emerging infectious diseases for decades, producing groundbreaking work on H5N1 and H9N1 bird flus, H1N1 swine flu, SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) and MERS (Middle East...
by | May 3, 2020
Exercise is generally recognised as highly beneficial for your health, but it works better on some people than others. New research suggests that people possessing certain gut microbes may in fact gain better metabolic outcomes from exercise than others. “The...
