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Collective prowess to curb global burden of lung cancer
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Researchers from CUHK’s Faculty of Medicine and the Association of Pacific Rim Universities have discovered that lung cancer cases and deaths have increased among women while decreasing among men over the past decade. Tobacco-related measures and early cancer detection for high-risk populations are recommended to control the rising numbers.
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Gut microbiota: World’s first discovery to combat long COVID
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The Microbiota I-(MagIC)-Centre of CUHK has identified distinct gut microbiome profiles associated with post-acute COVID-19 syndrome, commonly known as ‘long COVID’. These gut microbial signatures can be used to predict the risk of developing long COVID in patients with acute infection and to diagnose long COVID in recovered patients with persistent unexplained symptoms. This is the world’s first study to demonstrate gut microbiota as a key determinant of long COVID.
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Climate change could double destructive power of Asia’s typhoons
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Typhoons or tropical storms have wreaked havoc across Asia in recent years, causing casualties and serious economic losses. A new CUHK study suggests that typhoons have become dramatically more destructive in Asia over the past 40 years and that global warming could double their destructive power by the end of the century.
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Blending heritage and innovation in a rural children’s library
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The CUHK School of Architecture has just opened an extraordinary new children’s library. The Pingtan Book House, located in Hunan Province in mainland China, has been carefully designed to mix play and reading within a traditional timber structure, inspiring a love of both books and Dong culture in local youngsters.
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CUHK gives full-hearted support to Hong Kong’s battle against Omicron
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With a severe fifth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic currently threatening to overwhelm Hong Kong’s public healthcare system, CUHK has brought together health professionals, researchers, staff, students and alumni to provide urgent help through direct frontline patient care, community vaccination and testing services, timely expert advice and world-class research.
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Charting a course for virtual student mobility
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As a leader in virtual student exchange, CUHK was invited to take part in a UNESCO study on virtual student mobility in a post-pandemic world to share insight on how virtual exchanges can form part of a university’s international education strategy.
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