The Eyes Have It

Cataracts are a common disease of the eye affecting vision especially among older people. The problem is easily cured, but in Hong Kong the wait for cataract surgery in the public health system is among the longest in the developed world, at three to four years....

Our New Head of HKU-Shenzhen Hospital

Professor Kenneth Cheung Man-chee, Chair Professor of Orthopaedics and Traumatology and Jessie Ho Professor in Spine Surgery, and now Chief Executive of the HKUSZ Hospital, has made a career of traversing East and West and seizing opportunities with the energy and...

Material Values

The best things in life are freeBut you can give them to the birds and beesI need money (That’s what I want) These lyrics come from an old American pop tune that has been covered by the Beatles and many other popular bands. But that fondness for material over...

Evaporation Revelation

One of the problems with trying to research the hypothetical ‘primordial soup’ from which all life may have emerged is how to separate the elements which led to the first living cells being formed. Now, a research team has found that evaporation could facilitate...

Diamonds Are a Tooth’s Best Friend

A cross-disciplinary team has discovered that nanodiamonds (NDs) may be a highly effective agent in battling oral infections, a discovery which could open up new opportunities for improving oral health worldwide and provide a real alternative to the customary...