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The Hormonal Change Triggered by E-sport

E-sport competitions are organised in a relatively controllable setting as compared to those of physical sports, while existing research works on physiological and psychological impacts of E-sport are limited. A recent investigation on influencing f...

Jul 1, 2020
The Power of Emoji

With the increasing popularity of digital communication platforms, emoji has been used as a new language worldwide, conveying non-verbal communication cues and substituting for the face-to-face conditions. Essentially, emoji enables people from diff...

Jun 24, 2020
Virtual Care: A Step towards Modernisation

COVID-19 has allowed the widespread adoption of communication and collaboration software to facilitate medical care at a distance, while reducing the risk of transmission of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) between patien...

Jun 17, 2020
Association of Blood Glucose Control and Outcomes in Patients with COVID-19 and Pre-existing Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM)

The impact of blood glucose control on the degree of required medical interventions and mortality in patients with COVID-19 and T2DM remains uncertain. A recent retrospective study involving 7337 patients with COVID-19, among which 952 cases had pre...

Jun 10, 2020
Thumb Up, Cell Phone Down!

“Writer’s bump” is a condition which callouses formed on the lateral knuckle of the third finger in individuals who tightly gripped pens or pencils. Similarly, thumb callouses have been reported to develop due to excessive video ga...

Jun 3, 2020
The Efficacy of Gilteritinib in Acute Myeloid Leukemia

Acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) accounts for approximately 80% of acute leukaemia diagnosed in adults and the 5-year overall AML survival rate is 15%. Mutational status of FMS-like tyrosine kinase 3 (FLT3) is now well recognised as delineating a subty...

May 27, 2020
Habitual fish oil supplementation is associated with reduced risks of cardiovascular events and all-cause mortality

Although the benefits of fish oil supplementation are well known, real-life evidence on the effectiveness of fish oil supplements is limited. Recently, a population-based prospective evaluation on the associations of habitual fish oil supplementatio...

May 20, 2020
Low-dose Aspirin was Associated with Lower Liver-related Mortality

In a nationwide study of patients with chronic viral hepatitis in Sweden, the long-term effects of low-dose (≤160 mg) aspirin on incident hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), liver-related mortality, and gastrointestinal bleeding were investigated. 50...

May 13, 2020
Hong Kong Adolescents Are Alarmingly Inactive

The 24-hour Movement Guidelines have been well-established. However, based on an analytic sample consisted of 692 local adolescents aged 11-18 years (53% girls), only 1.0% of adolescents met all of the recommendations in the Guidelines, whereas only...

May 6, 2020
College Education against Mobile Phone Dependence Is Needed

A recent longitudinal study investigated the associations between mobile phone dependence and mental health status among Chinese undergraduate students indicated that the prevalence of anxiety and depression at Year 3 was 7.5% and 9.4%, respectively...

Apr 29, 2020
A Preliminary Human Trial of Gene Therapy for X-linked Retinitis Pigmentosa

X-linked Retinitis Pigmentosa (RP), the most common form of recessive RP, is caused by the mutation of RP GTPase regulator gene (RPGR). Recently, an early phase clinical trial (XIRIUS) reported the safety profile and visual improvement in male patie...

Apr 22, 2020
Household Cleaning Product Use May Raise Childhood Asthma Risk

With growing awareness on personal and household hygiene against infections, the increased use of cleaning products may ring an alarm. A Canadian longitudinal study revealed that frequent use of cleaning products in homes of infants may increase the...

Apr 15, 2020