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Research: A rising trend in primary brain cancer incidence in younger males in high-income countries

Primary brain cancer, though not a common malignancy, has a very poor survival rate compared to other types of cancer. The Chinese...

Research: COVID-19 prescribed oral medication lower the risk of death and hospital admission

Two types of oral antiviral drugs have been prescribed to COVID-19 patients since the fifth wave of the pandemic in Hong Kong. The Jockey...

Research: Rising incidence of multiple myeloma, particularly in older males from high-income nations

Multiple myeloma, lymphoma and leukaemia are the three major types of haematological malignancies. In Hong Kong, multiple myeloma is the...

[Research] Real-time bioinformatics platform to predict COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness

Timely evaluation of COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness (VE) is desperately needed to inform and update vaccine design as novel genetic...

[Long COVID] Prediction, diagnosis and treatment with distinct gut microbial signatures

CU Medicine have identified for the first time distinct gut microbiome profiles associated with post-acute COVID-19 syndrome, more...

A joint HKU-CUHK study finds that smoking increases the risk of COVID-19

Researchers from the School of Public Health, LKS Faculty of Medicine of The University of Hong Kong (HKUMed), in collaboration with The...