The Sad Place

Two decades ago, Professor Tatia Mei-chun Lee, Chair Professor of Psychological Science and Clinical Psychology and May Professor in Neuropsychology, was puzzled by a patient’s symptoms. The man had suffered from acute liver failure and undergone an emergency liver...

Fractured Vision

The project, which is the largest collaborative study of hip fracture ever undertaken and involved 400 million patients, was planned in 2019 and officially started in 2020. The global team of Amgen, a pharmaceutical company which makes anti-osteoporosis medications,...

Living Long, Despite the Odds

Since 2013, life expectancy at birth in Hong Kong has been the highest in the world – 88.1 years for women and 82.7 years for men (as of 2020). And this has posed a conundrum for public health scientists and practitioners. Hong Kong has one of the highest income...

Mindful Matters

When the Jockey Club ‘Peace and Awareness’ Mindfulness Culture in Schools Initiative began in 2019, COVID-19 had not appeared on the scene. But the challenges the pandemic has wrought on the mental health of our community – especially youth – have made it both timely...

Snuffing out Alternative Tobacco Products

E-cigarettes and other ATPs have presented a challenge when it comes to controlling tobacco use. On the one hand, in the United Kingdom, the National Health Service touts them as a stepping stone to quitting traditional cigarettes. On the other hand, the World Health...