by admin | Nov 19, 2021
What does One Health mean in practice? Professor Malik Peiris, Tam Wah-Ching Professor in Medical Science, of the School of Public Health, one of the most highly cited scholars in the world on emerging infectious diseases and recent joint recipient of the prestigious...
by admin | May 13, 2021
The promise of robotics in healthcare is often equated with the development of self-driving cars. The latter technology has accelerated and these cars are now being tested on roads, although not without challenges. Could we one day have autonomous medical droids...
by admin | May 13, 2021
Dr Laura Meek, Assistant Professor in the Centre for the Humanities and Medicine, is studying what she terms the ‘grammar of leprosy’ – the ways in which leprosy has been framed as a disease of the past for nearly a century. This framing, she argues, leads to leprosy...
by admin | May 12, 2021
“What we are doing here is applying science to solve an intractable clinical problem: a clinician-scientist’s quest,” said Professor Paul Tam Kwong-hang in describing his research on liver disease in newborn infants. He went on to quote an editorial in The Lancet from...
by admin | May 12, 2021
“Surgery is a challenging subject that requires not only skills and craftsmanship but also knowledge and timely judgment and decision,” said Course Director Dr Ian Wong Yu-Hong, who is also Clinical Assistant Professor sub-specialising in esophageal and upper...
