The Suicide Watch

Last autumn, when classes resumed following the COVID-19 pandemic, there was a feeling of relief that life could go back to normal for children and youths. Yet almost the opposite happened. From August to October 2023, there were 16 reported cases of suicide attempts...

Stuck on Scrolling

Facebook came in for a harsh grilling earlier this year when the CEO of parent company Meta, Mark Zuckerberg, was accused in a US Senate hearing of having ‘blood on his hands’. The reason was the mental health effects linked to the platform’s algorithms.Social media...

Generations Connect

Few people in Hong Kong have the breadth of understanding about COVID-19 and how to deal with it as Professor Sophia Chan Siu-chee. She was Secretary for Food and Health from 2017 to 2022 and was charged with planning Hong Kong’s response to the pandemic. When she...

Changing Old Attitudes

The term ‘ageism’ was coined during the 1960s by physician Robert Butler to refer to systematic stereotyping of people based on chronological age, and little progress has been made to address age-bias in healthcare over the years. Recently, big increases in the size...

The Distance between Us

“An informal discussion between colleagues about the benefits of having a collaborator close by led to agreement that face-to-face interactions – no time-difference, no Zoom meetings – seemed to spur more in-depth exchange,” said Dr Frank van der Wouden, Assistant...