HKJGOM 2005; 5 (1) 40 Introduction In modern days, birth control in our community has been achieved with modest success via the practice of various contraceptive methods. According to statistics from The Family Planning Association of Hong Kong (FPAHK), the contraceptive practice rate in Hong Kong has been maintained at above 80% since 19871. This is higher than the world average of 60%2. Famil...

s a child, did you like reading science fiction or watching Star Trek? If so, this issue is really a treat for you! Robots the size of small VW bugs in the operating room assisting urologists in removing a prostate. Wireless endoscopy capsules, the size of large vitamin pills, touring through the small intestine, filming a scene straight out of Fantastic Voyage. Preimplantation genetic testing ...

The “final” 5-year outcomes of combined trials with the Endeavor zotarolimus-eluting stent (E-ZES) by Kandzari et al. (1), published in this issue of JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions, might be considered a companion to the Kirtane et al. (2) publication in the issue last month of JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions, which reported on the “final” 5-year follow-up of the ENDEAVOR IV (A Randomize...

The search for novel proteins is complicated by the diversity of amino acids, the non-linear relationship between amino acid sequence and folding and the huge size of sequence space. The goal of this research is to discover patterns in amino acid composition and sequence that relate to known or novel folds, thereby helping to constrain the search space for new functional proteins. This approach...