Updates

by Olivia Ngan
Medium: Ming Pao Daily
Title: “‘Is egg freezing for women a good solution to the aging population?” (《女性凍卵 是否應對人口老化良方》) [Chinese]

by Ria Sinha
Medium: am730
Title: “‘Superbugs’: Protecting Hong Kong from the rising threat of Antimicrobial Resistance” (AMR) (《超級惡菌》)  [Chinese]

by Olivia Ngan
Medium: am730
Title: “The pros and cons of egg freezing” (《冷凍卵子的利與弊》)  [Chinese]

by Olivia Ngan
Medium: am730
Title: “Surrogacy Tales: Outsourcing Pregnancy” (《外判生仔》) [Chinese]

by Zohar Lederman
Medium: Ha’aretz (a newspaper)

Interviewed: Daisy Cheung
Medium: Ming Pao
Title: “Health Bureau: voluntarily admitted psychiatric patients may be compulsorily detained where there is violence” (《精神病患自願入院倘使暴力 醫衛局: 可被強制羈留》) [Chinese]

Interviewed: Daisy Cheung
Medium: Ming Pao
Title: “Turning voluntary admission of psychiatric patients into compulsory admission | No reference in guidelines to “violence” possibly to avoid triggering the need to amend legislation | Scholar worries that the tightened standards will make patients feel cheated” (《精神科自願變強制入院 指引沒提「暴力」 料因避修例 學者憂收緊標準病人感受騙》) [Chinese]

Interviewed: Daisy Cheung
Medium: Ming Pao
Title: “Expert: violent behaviour should be regarded as encompassing risks of injuring people: amendment of guidelines and necessity of amending the legislation” (《專家：暴力行為須涵傷人風險 加入指引須修例》) [Chinese]

Interviewed: Daisy Cheung
Medium: Ming Pao
Title: “Conditional discharge orders reviewed less frequently for psychiatric patients with a relatively low risk: social worker finds this problematic” (《搣甩有條件釋放低風險者等更久 社工斥荒謬》) [Chinese]

Interviewed: Zohar Lederman
Medium: Popular Science

By Zohar Lederman
Medium: South China Morning Post

Interviewed: Daisy Cheung
Medium: RTHK
Title: “One fifth of applications received in the past five years from psychiatric patients for review of Conditional Discharge Orders were granted | Doctor called for a balanced judgment” (《覆核有條件出院令5年僅兩成獲批　醫生稱需作平衡決定》) [Chinese]

Interviewed: Olivia Ngan
Medium: South China Morning Post

Interviewed: Calvin W. L. Ho
Medium: HK 01
Title: “The case of Tang Kwai-sze | HKU professor believes that public interest might be a reason behind the decision to withdraw the charges while CUHK expert believes that the decision has not dispelled doubts” (《鄧桂思案｜港大教授指公眾利益或為撤控理由　中大專家憂未釋疑慮》) [Chinese]

Interviewed: Daisy Cheung
Medium: The Collective
Title: “Conditional Discharge: patient worried about loss of medical autonomy as a result of voluntary admission | What are doctors, patients and scholars thinking?” (《有條件釋放｜病人自白：憂自願入院變失醫療自主　醫、患、學者想什麼?》) [Chinese]

Interviewed: Daisy Cheung
Medium: The Collective
Title: “Difficult to have Conditional Discharge orders revoked | Some patient who was subject to the order for 23 years unsuccessfully applied for release while some had their appeal dismissed 4 times” (《有條件釋放令｜撤令難　最長持令 23 年申撤銷不獲批　有病人四度上訴失敗》) [Chinese]

By Alex Gearin
Medium: Oriental Daily News
Title: “Will psychedelic treatments become legitimate mental health therapies?” (《醫健寶庫：迷幻藥物治療會否成合法精神健康治療？》)  [Chinese]

Interviewed: Daisy Cheung
Medium: The Collective
Title: “Conditional Discharge Order | Hong Kong government looking into the option of compulsorily detaining voluntarily admitted patients with a violent disposition and scholar expressing concern that the new conditions of release proposed may result in encroachment on human rights” (《港府研強制羈留自願入院者有暴力傾向人士　學者批新增釋放條件侵人權》) [Chinese]