Advanced and Affordable Care

Opened in autumn last year, the state-of-the-art Institute for Advanced Dentistry – Multi-Specialty Clinic (IAD-MSC) is Hong Kong’s only training facility that provides advanced clinical training for qualified dentists pursuing taught postgraduate (TPG) training in...

Healing through the Arts

Pummelling, squeezing and moulding clay into shape, splashing paint across a canvas or moving freely to music should instinctively feel satisfying. Professor Rainbow Ho Tin-hung of the Department of Social Work and Social Administration has put that insight through a...

Leprosy Paradox

Dr Laura Meek, Assistant Professor in the Centre for the Humanities and Medicine, is studying what she terms the ‘grammar of leprosy’ – the ways in which leprosy has been framed as a disease of the past for nearly a century. This framing, she argues, leads to leprosy...

Breakthrough in Fight against Liver Disease in Newborns

“What we are doing here is applying science to solve an intractable clinical problem: a clinician-scientist’s quest,” said Professor Paul Tam Kwong-hang in describing his research on liver disease in newborn infants. He went on to quote an editorial in The Lancet from...

How Green Is Seen

Numerous studies have reported the mental health benefits of contact with green landscapes. However, the mechanistic and neural bases of why such landscapes drive positive mental health outcomes have remained poorly understood until now. “This study uses functional...