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 | Aug 1, 2024
A study, led by Research Assistant Professor Dr Naomi Takemura and supervised by Professor Lin Chia-chin, Alice Ho Miu Ling Nethersole Charity Foundation Professor in Nursing, both from the School of Nursing, found that engaging in tai chi regularly enhanced patients’...
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...
