by admin | Nov 21, 2022
The project, which is the largest collaborative study of hip fracture ever undertaken and involved 400 million patients, was planned in 2019 and officially started in 2020. The global team of Amgen, a pharmaceutical company which makes anti-osteoporosis medications,...
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 | May 12, 2021
In 1889, Nature magazine carried an article that described China as a treeless country. To Professor Chen Ji of the Department of Civil Engineering, who was corresponding author of a recent groundbreaking study on urban development, the description was revealing of...
by | May 2, 2020
About 10 per cent of Hong Kong people aged over 65 show signs of depression, the result of stress, poor health and lack of social engagement. Similar factors can also darken the mood of the family members who look after elderly relatives suffering from dementia. The...
by | May 2, 2020
Dr Gloria Wong Hoi-yan has worked for years to develop interventions and care management for sufferers of dementia. And while she has had some successes (see box), one stumbling block has loomed in her path. Unlike Taiwan, Macau and other developed societies, Hong...
