by admin | Nov 8, 2020
“The Centre for the Humanities and Medicine (CHM) is unique as a hub that links science, public health, history and anthropology to address some of the biggest health challenges facing societies in Asia and globally,” said Professor Robert Peckham, MB Lee Professor in...
by admin | Nov 7, 2020
POOR VENTILATION HELPS THE VIRUS SPREADHKU’s Department of Mechanical Engineering has shown that COVID-19 can be transmitted several metres by air when there is poor ventilation – a timely warning as winter approaches and people spend more time indoors. The...
by admin | May 3, 2020
HKU’s LKS Faculty of Medicine (HKUMed) has been at the forefront of research into emerging infectious diseases for decades, producing groundbreaking work on H5N1 and H9N1 bird flus, H1N1 swine flu, SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) and MERS (Middle East...
by | May 3, 2020
Research is critical to the pharmacy profession and drug dispensation, but most pharmacy students do not get a deep, first-hand insight into that process. Dr Esther WY Chan of the Department of Pharmacology and Pharmacy set out to change that by incorporating...
by | May 3, 2020
Exercise is generally recognised as highly beneficial for your health, but it works better on some people than others. New research suggests that people possessing certain gut microbes may in fact gain better metabolic outcomes from exercise than others. “The...
