Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Recurrent pyogenic cholangitis (RPC), also known as Hong Kong disease, Oriental cholangitis, and Oriental infestational cholangitis, is a chronic infection characterized by recurrent bouts of bacterial cholangitis with primary hepatolithiasis. [1] [2] It is exclusive to people who live or have lived in southeast Asia. [3] [4] [5]
The Centre for Health Protection is an agency under the Department of Health in Hong Kong responsible for disease prevention and control. CHP plays the same role and function as the Centers for Disease Control in the United States, and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control in the European Union (EU).
Joseph Sung Jao-yiu SBS JP (Chinese: 沈祖堯; Jyutping: Sam2 Zou2 Jiu4, born 22 October 1959) is a Hong Kong physician and gastroenterologist, and the current dean of Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine at the Nanyang Technological University (NTU), also serving as the Senior Vice President (Health and Life Sciences) of NTU. [11]
For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us
Shen Hongbing is the current Director of Chinese CDC. [1]The CCDC administers a number of laboratories across China, including the biosafety level 2 facility at the Wuhan Center for Disease Control (sometimes confused with the nearby Wuhan Institute of Virology), [6] which received global media coverage during the COVID-19 pandemic for its research into SARS-like coronaviruses of bat origin.
Yuen Kwok-yung GBS JP (Chinese: 袁國勇; born 30 December 1956 [1]) is a Hong Kong microbiologist, physician, and surgeon. He is a prolific researcher, with most of his nearly 800 papers (as of December 2020) related to research on novel microbes or emerging infectious diseases.
This changed with reforms to Hong Kong's healthcare system in the late 1980s. In October 1987, Governor David Wilson officially announced the government's intention to establish a new, semi-independent Hospital Authority , which would be administered by a new Hospital Services Department (HSD). [ 1 ]
It remains standard of care in that situation," Dr. Michael J. Blaha, director of clinical research for the Johns Hopkins Ciccarone Center for the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease.