‘In hypomania, there is an increased pressure of speech with prolixity, an abnormal liveliness of expressive movements, superficial bustling activity and a tendency to be argumentative and irritable if thwarted in any way. The patient is interested in everything, starts many projects, and finishes none . . . the elated mood leads to faulty judgement and a lack of consideration for others . . . ...

The world is currently in the midst of the greatest demographic upheaval in human history. Dramatic reductions in mortality, followed (but with a lag) by equally marked reductions in fertility, resulted in a doubling of world population between 1960 and 2000. A further increase of 2 to 4.5 billion is projected for the current half-century, with the increase concentrated in the world's least dev...

Connecting the Last Billion

Medicine in Hong Kong is a microcosm of Hong Kong itself—it is bustling, dynamic, go-ahead, state-of-theart. What is surprising, perhaps, is that Hong Kong should also be in the vanguard of the development of telemedicine, having formed the Hong Kong Telemedicine Association at an early stage in the development of the subject globally, contributed to a series of international telemedicine confe...

The rapid pace of data production in scientific research has required new methods for analytical processing and interpretation. In the area of biology, large volumes of data have been challenging to navigate as they are generated from rapidly developing technologies and systems-level investigations. The discipline of bioinformatics has arisen to manage and analyze complex varieties of biologica...