Bulletin Autumn‧Winter 1996

— j o i n t l y organized by the University's School of Continuing Studies, the Urban Council, and the Hong Kong Cantonese Opera Association. - C e r t i f i c a te p r o g r ammes in ： s c h o ol discipline, student guidance, and school counselling and guidance — organized by the Hong Kong Institute of Educational Research. 1997-98 - M a s t e r of Ph i l o s o p hy p r o g r amme in industrial-organizational psychology — o r g a n i z ed b y t he D e p a r t m e nt of Psychology. New Ventures in Medical and Health Services Qu a l i t y C o n t r o l o f Ch i ne se Me d i c i n es The University's Chinese Medicinal Material Research Cen t re has e n t e r ed i n t o a collaborative agreement w i th the National Institute for the Control of Pharmaceutical and Biological Products in China, wh i ch is affiliated to the Ministry of Public Health, for the research and development of quality control methods and standards for Chinese medicines. CU Becomes 2 0 t h I n t e r n a t i o n al MEDLARS Ce n t re The University has been officially designated the 20th International MEDLARS (Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval Systems) Centre. MEDLARS membership serves a dual function ： it enables the US National Library of Medicine (NLM) to identify for the US health community relevant information from the world's biomedical literature, and it also benefits the international health community by enabling it to meet its own health-related information requirements through NLM's shared resources. To qualify as a MEDLARS centre, an institution must be a public one nominated by the region's highest health official and an online centre capable of using NLM's Grateful Med and the Internet to access MEDLARS databases. A MEDLARS centre is also expected to offer user-search-assistance and document delivery services, and be c o mm i t t ed to s e r v i ng a ll h e a l th professionals. Me d i c al T e am V i s i ts S h a n d o ng t o S t udy Gas t r ic Cancer The Chinese University and Beijing Medical University conducted a collaborative study on gastric cancer to determine whether eradication of the bacteria Helicobacter pylori w i ll prevent the development of the disease. The project is supported by the Hong Kong Society of Digestive Endoscopy. Gastric cancer is the most c ommon malignancy in the wo r ld and is the fourth major killer amongst cancers in Hong Kong. Its cause was l a r ge ly u n k n o wn u n t i l recently, w h e n epidemiological studies s h o w e d t h at p a t i e n ts i n f e c t ed b y Chinese University Bulletin Autumn . Winter 1996 44