What should be done about asymptomatic hypercholesterolaemia?

What is osteopenia, and what should be done about it?

What should be done about postnatal depression in Hong Kong?

Postnatal depression is one of the most common forms of psychiatric morbidity of child-bearing and causes a host of adverse psychosocial complications to the mother, the children, and the family. Recent studies have shown that 12% of local women have postnatal depression and most of them receive no meaningful medical attention. The validation of a local version of the Edinburgh Postnatal Depres...

What should be done about smoking in movies?

In 1997 Ron Davis, Tobacco Control’s inaugural editor, and I wrote an editorial titled Smoking in movies: is it a problem? Since then, a growing body of research has examined the relation between viewing of movies containing depictions of smoking and subsequent smoking among youth. Reviewing this evidence, a 2008 National Cancer Institute monograph concluded ‘‘The depiction of cigarette smoking...

Getting Prices Right: What Should Be Done?

T he theory of price indexes is usually left to specialists, but when a suspicion that something has gone wrong is coupled with the possibility of large political and fiscal benefits from fixing it, the topic can move into the limelight. I suspect that much of the profession, like me, is now prepared to believe that, in some sense, the rate of growth of the Consumer Price Index likely overstate...

O3: Children are Not Small Adults! What should be done to Better Protect Them?

Road Traffic injuries are known as the most prevalent childhood injury and besides being the greatest cause of child mortality, place an extraordinary burden on health care system. Children’s limitation in cognitive, physical and social development makes them more vulnerable in road traffic injuries than adults. Their small structure cause challenges to see and be seen and their risk taki...