A New Angle on Views

Inevitably, a view from a 30th-floor window is different to that from the second floor. But how do you monitor the benefits of either? In the time of COVID-19, ‘view health’ is particularly important as going outside may be restricted. Now a technological window of...

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...