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ASGH 2023

Fruitful Exhibition on ASGH 2023 at HKCEC!

Honoured to participate Asia Summit on Global Health (ASGH) (17 May 2023)

Deputy Mayor of Chengdu and Leader of National Health Commission of the People’s Republic of China at the booth of MicroMag Healthcare Limited. (Photo: MicroMag)

Dr. Fung Kong, ED & CEO of CUHK Medical Centre at the booth of MicroMag Healthcare Limited. (Photo: MicroMag)

Mr. Charles Liu (CEO of MicroMag Healthcare Limited) was invited to join the Project Pitching Section sharing how the unique selling point of the project “QuickCAS: An Easy-To-Use Analysis System for Quick Detection of Infectious Pathogens in Clinical Samples” fits the need of the healthcare industry. (Photo: MicroMag)

QuickCAS from MicroMag Healthcare Limited was pitched by CEO Mr. Charles Liu.

Snapshot of MicroMag Healthcare Limited’s event booth in Asia Summit on Global Health (ASGH) on 17 May 2023. Showing the achievements and selling points of QuickCAS to professionals and investors from the healthcare industry. (Photo: MicroMag)

Themed “Reimagining the Future of Healthcare”, this year’s ASGH is a one-stop cross-disciplinary platform that will bring together all stakeholders from around the world to exchange insights, explore opportunities and collaborate on the diverse and dynamic healthcare sector. This year, the ASGH featured projects and solutions from more than 140 healthcare-related innovative technology enterprises, from which 50 of the enterprises and projects are presented by five local major universities, and attracted over 2,500 participants from 40 countries and regions.

Positioned as Asia’s thought-leadership event on health innovation and investment, the inaugural Asia Summit on Global Health (ASGH) jointly organised by the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and the Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC) featured over 70 internationally renowned speakers and attracted more than 21,000 onsite and online participants from 54 countries and regions in its debut edition. Over 200 one-to-one meetings matching funds with global healthcare projects were also arranged.

Event Highlight on ASGH 2023 from CUHK

Asia Summit Global Health

"Weaving Engineering Research and Medical Applications Together."

A group of passionate Engineers Enhance the World with Advanced Tech

HEALTH TIPS

News 新動向

ASGH 2022

Rewarding Exhibition on ASGH 2022 at HKCEC!

Honoured to participate Asia Summit on Global Health (ASGH) (10 Nov 2022)

CUHK. (Photo: ORKTS, CUHK)

MicroMag is honoured to be invited to participate in the Asia Summit on Global Health (ASGH) on 10 November 2022. We are glad to seize the chance to exhibit our novel microrobotic diagnosis technology: QuickCAS – a Fully Automated Diagnostic System using Novel Microrobotic Sensing Technology to professionals such as doctors, laboratory technicians, and investors from the healthcare industry.

QuickCAS from MicroMag Healthcare Limited was pitched by CEO Mr. Charles Liu.

Snapshot of MicroMag Healthcare Limited’s event booth in Asia Summit on Global Health (ASGH) on 10 November 2022. Showing the achievements and advantages of QuickCAS to professionals and investors from the healthcare industry. (Photo: MicroMag)

Themed “Charting a New Course in Healthcare through Collaboration”, the second ASGH brought together all the stakeholders – from healthcare experts to renowned academia and influential business leaders, together with key industry players, innovative start-ups, investors and policymakers from around the world to exchange insights, explore opportunities and collaborate on the diverse and dynamic healthcare sector.

ASGH brings together key players, decisions makers and change drivers to address trending topics, explore business and investment opportunities and collaborate on the forefront of the healthcare industry.

Event Highlight on ASGH 2022 from CUHK

Asia Summit Global Health

"Weaving Engineering Research and Medical Applications Together."

A group of passionate Engineers Enhance the World with Advanced Tech

HEALTH TIPS

News 新動向

Innovation Day 2022

Fruitful Innovation Day 2022 at CUHK!

Honoured to participate the Innovation Day 2022 ( 28 Oct 2022 ).

A group photo of the winners at The 2nd Innovation Day cum Elevator Pitch Competition with representatives from CUHK. (Photo: ORKTS, CUHK)

MicroMag is honoured to be invited to participate in the Innovation Day 2022 cum Elevator Pitch Competition at CUHK on 28 October 2022. We are glad to seize the chance to exhibit our novel microrobotic diagnosis technology: QuickCAS – a Fully Automated Diagnostic System using Novel Microrobotic Sensing Technology to HKSAR governors from Innovation, Technology & Industry, scholars, alumni from CUHK, and the public.

(From left) Mr. Charles Liu (CEO of MicroMag Healthcare Limited) and Professor Dong Sun (JP, Secretary for Innovation, Technology and Industry) (Photo: ORKTS, CUHK)

Snapshot of MicroMag Healthcare Limited’ event booth on Innovation Day 2022

In the Elevator Pitch Competition, QuickCAS from MicroMag Healthcare Limited pitched by MicroMag’s CEO Mr. Charles Liu won the Most Innovative Technology Award.

Mr. Charles Liu (CEO of MicroMag Healthcare Limited)
(Photo: ORKTS, CUHK)

Results of the 2nd Innovation Day cum Elevator Pitch Competition
Most Innovative Technology Award:
MicroMag Healthcare Limited (Photo: ORKTS, CUHK)

The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) held the 2nd Innovation Day cum Elevator Pitch Competition on 28 October 2022, demonstrating the excellent research results that can come from industry-university research collaboration, and promoting the development of an innovation ecosystem on campus. This year, a range of innovative research projects from CUHK scholars were displayed at the exhibition, alongside a series of thematic talks. Teams also competed for awards in the inaugural Elevator Pitch Competition.

About QucikCAS from MicroMag

Innovation Day at CUHK

Event Highlight on Innovation Day 2022 at CUHK

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"Weaving Engineering Research and Medical Applications Together."

A group of passionate Engineers Enhance the World with Advanced Tech

Health Notes 健康資訊

Keep Calm and disinfect your place!

Though the social distancing policy is not relaxing in the current period, we should keep calm and disinfect our places!

Apart from keeping your hands clean, now we want to remind everyone to keep your place disinfect!

Everyone knows that using water to clean your place is good enough to remove most of the germs and dust away from your place. However, during the pandemic, we definitely would also encourage everyone to disinfect your place thoroughly using diluted bleach which removes up to 99.9% of pathogens (especially the virus like Covid-19 and contact-borne bacteria like C. difficile.)!

1:99 diluted bleach could be used for general household cleaning
1:49 diluted bleach could be used to disinfect the contaminated objects and environment (contaminated with vomit, excrement, secretions or blood, etc)

Bear in mind that bleach should be used after dilution. If not, the sewer will be hurt by the pure/high concentration bleach!

** Keep calm and keep your place disinfected! **

** Eliminate the possibility of infection **

Let’s fight the disease!

Source:
Cleaning and Disinfecting With Bleach and Water (CDC)
漂白水的使用 (Department of Health, HKSAR)

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Warm Blessings

Happy People Day 2022

May we wish you a joyful birthday on People's Day!

Don’t forget to keep your hands clean on People’ Day! Stay healthy and goodbye to germs!

** Happy People’ Day!! **

The 7th Day of the first lunar month is People’ Day. As mentioned in the Chinese myth, Nuwa created humans on the 7th day after Pangu has separated heaven and earth. Thus the 7th Day is People’ Day meaning the birthday of all human beings. As the birthday of everyone, kids, subordinates, criminals would receive no punishment and exhortation in ancient China.

** Happy Birthday and Stay healthy!! **

** Wash your hands with (liquid) soap and running water! **

Let’s fight the disease!

Source: Traditions On People Day (HKET)

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Warm Blessings

Happy Valentine’s Day!

May we wish all the couples and valentines a romantic and delightful Valentine's Day in both Chinese and Western one!

Don’t forget to wash your hands before you hug and hold your lover’s hands!

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Health Notes 健康資訊

E. coli (Escherichia coli) is our partner

You are safe with non-pathogenic E. coli
— be aware of food safety and your hands to prevent pathogenic E. coli

The well-known bacteria Escherichia coli (abbr. E. coli) is also one of the bacteria that could be found in the digestive tract microbiome of humans and animals. Most E. coli not only do no harm to our body but also help to synthesize vitamin K and the development of the immune system. When the harmful germs are present in the colon, E. coli would protect their own spaces and fight against the harmful germs to maintain the balance of our microbiome in the colon. There are a few kinds of Escherichia coli strains outside the human colon that are pathogenic that cause illnesses like watery diarrhea and abdominal pain; some even would enter the bloodstream which causes hemolytic anemia, acute renal failure, and even death

In what circumstances will we be infected with E. coli?

- Unbalance microbiome inside the digestive tract

People who have an unbalanced microbiome within the colon due to the application of antibiotics, chemotherapy, unscheduled meal time, unbalance nutrition intake, etc. would weaken the immune system.

When there are not enough E. coli, C. difficile will grab the chance to be dominant in our tract and make us sick!

- People with weak immune systems

Infants that have not yet established a strong immune system, and people who are chronically ill like cancer patients whose immune system has been weakened due to illness and treatment would have higher chances to be infected.

- Urinary tract infection for specific age of female

Girls in the age of 10 and ladies in the age of 20-40 would have higher chances to get an external infection by the urinary tract.

- External contaminated food and beverages

Food and beverages that are unwashed or uncooked which are contaminated with E. coli from the environment can make us sick.

- Contact the E. coli from the animal

When we have contacted the E. coli originated from animals would also cause illness as well.

There are still ways to prevent infection of pathogenic E. coli

How to protect ourselves from pathogenic E. coli

- Wash the raw vegetables and fruits before you eat

To keep the environment bacterium-free, chlorine bleach and other natural disinfection ways are recommended to reduce the risk of infection within the same environment.

- Wash your hands before you handle food/eat

Hand hygiene is always the first move to prevent infectious diseases.

- Cook the food with a high temperature (>75°C) to kill the E. coli

Use antibiotics only under the doctor’s prescription, and follow the whole treatment prescribed by doctor.

- people with weak immune systems shall avoid eating high-risk food

Kids, elderly, pregnant, and people with weak immune systems shall avoid eating high-risk food: Unpasteurized milk, cheese, prepared or stored salads, and cold meats C. diff.

** We are infected by E. coli only when it is no longer staying in their own digestive tract **

** Wash your hands with (liquid) soap and running water! **

Let’s fight the disease!

Source:
E. coli (Escherichia coli) (CDC)
Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli infection (Centre for Health Protection, HKSAR)
Is E. coli a friend or an enemy? (Liver Disease Prevention & Treatment Research Foundation)

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Warm Blessings

Happy New Year!

May we wish you a joyous and fruitful year!

Don’t forget to Wash your hands before you handle food/eat in Lunar New Year!
MicroMag wishes you all a happy new year! Stay healthy and goodbye to germs!

#micromag #healthcare #micromaghealthcare #happynewyear #happylunarnewyear #stayhealthy #washhands #hygiene

Health Notes 健康資訊

C. diff, a serial killer in the world

The antibiotic resistance-related bacteria fight back
— only take the antibiotics with prescriptions!

There is a strong bacterium that can kill millions of patients worldwide. It is normal to find them in our digestive tract microbiome and it does no harm when we have a healthy belly. It is named Clostridioides difficile (or Clostridium difficile in the past; or C. diff in short.). C. diff loves an anoxic environment, where the colon is one of the best living places. However, it is commonly found in the environment as well. When there are not enough good bacteria in your digestive tract microbiome, you will suffer from its toxins as it becomes a dominant bacteria in the colon to produce toxins harming our health.

Not everyone is easy to be infected by C. diff, but people will have higher risks to suffer from C. diff if they (are):

65 years old or above
taking antibiotics

This may kill the good bacterium in your digestive tract microbiome. Make sure you take in accordance with doctors prescription.

stayed at a hospital or nursing home recently

Where germs are easily found in the environment. Keep personal hygiene.

have a weakened immune system

due to certain diseases such as HIV/AIDS, cancer, etc. which would hard to keep the health gate safe.

Diarrhea caused by C. diff is infectious especially in hospital and healthcare-associated places. There are over 200,000 estimated cases every year and 12,800 deaths in the United States (2017). In Hong Kong, there are more than 20,000 suspected cases and 2,000-3,000 reported cases annually since 2017 and mostly occurred in hospitals. As the inpatient number in Hong Kong is high, it is important to be aware of the prevention to reduce the risk of group outbreaks.

There are still ways to prevent infection of C. difficile

Prevention of suffering from C. difficile

Keep a hygienic environment with chlorine bleach disinfection

To keep the environment bacterium-free, chlorine bleach and other natural disinfection ways are recommended to reduce the risk of infection within the same environment.

Keep your hands hygienic

Hand hygiene is always the first move to prevent infectious diseases.

Control antibiotics use

Use antibiotics only under the doctor’s prescription, and follow the whole treatment prescribed by doctor.

Patients infected by C. diff should be isolated.

Isolation gowns and disposable gloves are necessary for hospital staff and visitors to prevent the spread and infection of C. diff.

** C. diff spores could not be killed by alcohol-based hand sanitizers!! **

** Wash your hands with (liquid) soap and running water! **

Let’s fight the disease!

Source:
What is C. diff? (CDC)
Epidemiology, prevention and control of Clostridium difficile associated outbreaks in Hong Kong (Centre for Health Protection, HKSAR)
Statistics on Antimicrobial Resistance Control – Clostridiodes (Clostridium) difficile (Centre for Health Protection, HKSAR)
Epidemiology, prevention and control of Clostridium difficile associated outbreaks in Hong Kong (Centre for Health Protection, HKSAR)

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Health Notes 健康資訊

Bacillus cereus, secretly make you sick.

A bacteria look like cereus can make us vomit even the food is well-cooked
— Maintain the right temperature for your food!

There is a mysterious tough toxin that can survive at 126°C up to 90 minutes produced by a bacteria named Bacillus cereus. It might be surprising that there is something that high temperature cannot help at once. Bacillus cereus is a bacterium that looks like cereus, and most cases are caused by fried rice, so it is also named as “Fried Rice Syndrome”. But fried rice is already cooked at a high temperature! This act does not clear such bacteria in contaminated food.

Bacillus cereus can produce an emetic toxin that causes Gastrointestinal disease which makes us either suffer from diarrhea or vomit. Such tenacious bacteria can survive in food up to 60°C! Its toxin still could poison the food and make us suffer when the temperature is 126°C! It will only lose its toxic power after 90 minutes.

There are still ways to prevent infection of Bacillus Cereus

Prevention of suffering from Bacillus Cereus

- Handwashing

Hygienic hands are always a good move for the prevention of infectious diseases. Here we shall wash our hands before we handle the food and before we eat. About the hand washing, you can refer to here.

- Cooking at high temperature

Cooking food at high temperature is always good to kill most of the germs and disable the toxin.

- Finish the food once you open

Finish your food when they are still fresh and warm and right after the cooking procedure in the best-tasting state.

- Store as soon as possible when you are not going to eat anymore!

Put the food in the fridge or seal up the food when you are done with your meal but there are still some leftover food.

Eat delicious food smartly, protect your belly and stay healthy!

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Source:
Bacillus Cereus, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Bacillus cereus in Processed Food, Centre for Food Safety (HKSAR CFS)

Fruitful Exhibition on ASGH 2023 at HKCEC!

Rewarding Exhibition on ASGH 2022 at HKCEC!

Fruitful Innovation Day 2022 at CUHK!

Though the social distancing policy is not relaxing in the current period, we should keep calm and disinfect our places!

May we wish you a joyful birthday on People's Day!

May we wish all the couples and valentines a romantic and delightful Valentine's Day in both Chinese and Western one!

You are safe with non-pathogenic E. coli— be aware of food safety and your hands to prevent pathogenic E. coli

In what circumstances will we be infected with E. coli?

There are still ways to prevent infection of pathogenic E. coli

How to protect ourselves from pathogenic E. coli

May we wish you a joyous and fruitful year!

The antibiotic resistance-related bacteria fight back— only take the antibiotics with prescriptions!

There are still ways to prevent infection of C. difficile

Prevention of suffering from C. difficile

A bacteria look like cereus can make us vomit even the food is well-cooked— Maintain the right temperature for your food!

There are still ways to prevent infection of Bacillus Cereus

Prevention of suffering from Bacillus Cereus

You are safe with non-pathogenic E. coli
— be aware of food safety and your hands to prevent pathogenic E. coli

The antibiotic resistance-related bacteria fight back
— only take the antibiotics with prescriptions!

A bacteria look like cereus can make us vomit even the food is well-cooked
— Maintain the right temperature for your food!