by admin | Oct 21, 2024
As many as 40 per cent of middle-aged and elderly adults may suffer from chronic loneliness, meaning there is a discrepancy between their preferred and actual social relations. That puts them at risk for depression. But what is the mechanism that links the two?...
by admin | Oct 21, 2024
When Dr Zohar Lederman was an emergency medicine doctor in Israel, he was struck by how many patients did not want to go home because they had no one to go home to. They often ended up in the hospital longer than their condition warranted, but medical staff were not...
by admin | May 22, 2024
The screening programme – called Vision Matters: Glaucoma AI-ROTA Screening Project for 50+ – was launched in May last year through a collaboration between HKU’s Department of Ophthalmology and Orbis, and was made possible through technology called ROTA (Retinal nerve...
by admin | May 22, 2024
Secretin was the first hormone to be discovered, back in 1902. For decades, its actions were thought to be limited to gastro-intestinal functions. But this century, thanks in part to the work of Professor Billy Chow Kwok-chong, Chair of Endocrinology in the School of...
by admin | May 22, 2024
Antibiotic resistance is a growing, global problem. In the US, about 70 per cent of bacteria in hospitals are resistant to at least one commonly used antibiotic, and 25 per cent resistant to more than one. In Europe, drug-resistant bacterial infections have led to...
