by admin | May 14, 2025
“These positive associations were observed in more than 87,000 people across 23 countries and, representing a wide variety of cultural and economic contexts,” said Professor Zhang Qingpeng, from the Department of Pharmacology and Pharmacy and HKU Musketeers Foundation...
by admin | May 14, 2025
Scientists at HKUMed have invented a groundbreaking regimen – an oral formulation of arsenic trioxide (oral-ATO, or ARSENOL®) – for the treatment of acute promyelocytic leukaemia (APL), a blood cancer which has a high fatality rate. They have been...
by admin | May 1, 2025
Anyone suspected to have cancer wants to know the situation as soon as possible – is the diagnosis confirmed? Is the treatment working? Has it come back? But getting accurate information can be expensive and time-consuming. Labels, or biomarkers, have to be...
by admin | Nov 15, 2024
In the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, the UK government announced that it was “following the science” in implementing severe interventions. The approach sounded reasonable, but soon revealed serious limitations, particularly in regard to people’s freedoms and...
by benny | Nov 15, 2024
Dogs play a central role in many people’s lives – not only as family pet, companion or exercise facilitator, but often as child substitute. Others have professional roles – be they sniffing out drugs or explosives, police dog or emotional support...
