1Department of Clinical Oncology, Queen Mary Hospital, Pokfulam, Hong Kong 2Department of Gynecologic Oncology, University Hospital Erlangen, 91023 Erlangen, Germany 3Department of Clinical Oncology, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong 4Department of Medical Oncology, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai 50200, Thailand 5Head and Neck Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard ...

Surveillance of amantadine and oseltamivir resistance among influenza viruses was begun in Hong Kong in 2006. In 2008, while both A/Brisbane/59/2007-like and A/Hong Kong/2652/2006-like viruses (H1N1) were cocirculating, we detected amantadine and oseltamivir resistance among A/Hong Kong/2652/2006-like viruses (H1N1), caused by genetic reassortment or spontaneous mutation.

The recent handover of Hong Kong to the People’s Republic of China (PRC) brought Hong Kong worldwide attention and scrutiny. In the run up to the handover, the international media prominently featured stories about Hong Kong’s freewheeling capitalism and the stability created by its administrative institutions. Lost in the media attention was the role of nonprofit organizations and the voluntar...

precipitation using acetamide Yuhui Shen1, Hongquan Zhang2, Lianfu Deng1 ,Weibin Zhang1 ,Ting Wang 3,Haobo Pan3 , Lu, W W3 . 1 Department of Orthopaedics, Shanghai Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China 2 Department of Health Technology and Informatics, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Hong Kong, China 3 Department of Orthopaedics & Traumatology, The University of Hong Kong, C...

Some of the recent communicable disease problems in Hong Kong are summarised to illustrate the strengths and weaknesses of how Hong Kong currently controls and prevents communicable diseases. Suggestions on how Hong Kong could improve the control and prevention of communicable diseases are made.

1 Department of Neuroscience, University Federico II, Via Pansini 5, 80131 Naples, Italy 2 Department of Ophthalmology, Shanghai First People’s Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, China 3Department of Ophthalmology, United Christian Hospital and Tseung Kwan O Hospital, Hong Kong 4Department of Ophthalmology, LKS Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

BACKGROUND In recent years there has been a steady influx of immigrants into Hong Kong from Mainland China, where breastfeeding patterns differ. Studies in other regions have found substantial differences in breastfeeding rates between native-born and immigrant mothers. The purpose of this study was to examine factors associated with breastfeeding initiation in Hong Kong born and Mainland China...

OBJECTIVE. Medical professionalism has been widely discussed in western scholarly literature. However, since Hong Kong has a mixed Chinese-western culture, it remains uncertain whether Hong Kong health care professionals, medical students, and patients see medical professionalism in exactly the same way as westerners. The objective of the present study was to explore perceptions of medical prof...

A location-aware news feed system enables mobile users to share geotagged user-generated messages, e.g., a user can receive nearby messages that are the most relevant to her. In this paper, we present MobiFeed that is a framework designed for scheduling news feeds for mobile users. MobiFeed consists of three key functions, location prediction, relevance measure, and news feed scheduler. The loc...

Chinese, Mercè Garcia-Barceló, Lok Yee Chow, Kwok Lim Lam, Helen Fung Kum Chiu, Yun Kowk Wing, and Mary Miu Yee Waye ( Department of Psychiatry, Prince of Wales Hospital, and 2 Department of Biochemistry, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region; * address correspondence to this author at: Department of Psychiatry, 11/F Room 134045, P...