by admin | Nov 21, 2022
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...
by admin | Nov 21, 2022
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...
by admin | Nov 21, 2022
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....
by admin | Nov 21, 2022
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...
by admin | May 26, 2022
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...
