Event Highlights
Scientific Symposium: RISTTM Radial Access Device US & HK Experience Sharing

Dr. Edward Chu, Consultant of Radiology Department, Queen Mary Hospital, HK Dr. Brian Snelling, Director of Cerebrovascular and Endovascular Neurological Surgery, Neurosurgeon, Boca Raton Regional Hospital, Florida, US A shift in diagnostic and trea...

Jun 21, 2024
Current Landscape for Paediatric Patients with Atopic Dermatitis under 12 Years: Worldwide and in Canada

Scientific Meeting organised by the Department of Paediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, CUHK Treatment of atopic dermatitis (AD) remains a challenge in children and adolescents due to its complicated pathophysiology. As an earlier onset is associated wi...

Apr 19, 2024
Scientific Symposium: OMEGA-3 LIPID EMULSION IN PARENTERAL NUTRITION AND ROLE OF NST IN HOSPITAL

Parenteral nutrition (PN), delivered intravenously, plays a crucial role in maintaining patients’ nutritional status when they cannot meet their nutritional needs orally or enterally. Unfortunately, underutilisation of PN is a significant issu...

Apr 19, 2024
Hong Kong World Kidney Day 2024

A kidney disease, often asymptomatic in early stages, is usually overlooked by the public. In fact, more than one-tenth of the world’s population is living with kidney diseases, including chronic kidney disease (CKD). Because of the progressiv...

Apr 19, 2024
MANAGING TYPE 2 INFLAMMATION IN SEVERE ASTHMA

Asthma and chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps (CRSwNP) are often said to be analogous to siblings, given their overlapping pathophysiology and inflammation pathways. On 13 th December 2023, it was privileged to have invited Dr. Terence Tam Chi...

Feb 7, 2024
Biologic for managing atopic dermatitis: further u[dates for younger children Scientific Metting for Paediatrics Department of P

Atopic dermatitis (AD), one of the most common skin conditions worldwide, has shown an increasing severity and chronicity in recent years, affecting 20.6% of children and adolescents. Fortunately, recent advancements in the management of AD have rek...

Feb 7, 2024
Advancement in AML treatment

The treatment landscape of acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) is constantly evolving, and a new form of treatment for AML, oral azacitidine, has just become available in Hong Kong. On 18 th January 2024, the Hong Kong Society of Haematology organised a s...

Feb 7, 2024
Unveiling the 2023 ESH Hypertension Guidelines and its Practical Implications

The European Society of Hypertension (ESH) presented the updated guidelines for hypertension management in 2023 Summer. Coincidently, 2023 marks the 10 th anniversary of the launch of nebivolol in Hong Kong. To celebrate these milestones, A. Menarin...

Dec 18, 2023
11th Annual General Meeting cum Hybrid Seminar

On 21 st October 2023, The Hong Kong Respiratory Nursing College (HKRNC) held the 11 th Annual General Meeting in Cordis Hotel, Mong Kok, which came with a hybrid seminar to discuss the management of asthma. The event was opened with the President o...

Dec 18, 2023
APHRS 2023 Hong Kong

The recently concluded 16th Asia Pacific Heart Rhythm Society (APHRS) Scientific Session, held in conjunction with CardioRhythm 2023, took place in Hong Kong from 1st to 3rd September 2023. Organised by the APHRS and the Hong Kong College of Cardiol...

Oct 26, 2023
Endless Love Spring Memorial Ceremony 2023

Organ transplant is crucial to individuals suffering from organ failure for various reasons, including chronic illnesses, accidents, autoimmunity, and genetic disorders. Constrained by traditional values, religious reasons and a low social awareness...

Aug 11, 2023
Hybrid Symposium on Managing Multiple Myeloma Insight on Multiple Myeloma

Multiple Myeloma (MM) is a haematological malignancy characterised by the uncontrolled proliferation of mutated plasma cells in the bone marrow. In Hong Kong, there are about 300 new cases per year. Very often, patients with MM are presented with an...

Aug 11, 2023