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A research team led by Professor Jane Zhou Jie and Professor Yuen Kwok-Yung, from the Department of Microbiology under the School of Clinical Medicine in the LKS Faculty of Medicine of the University ...

January is Cervical Cancer Health Awareness Month. National Women’s Health Network offers this advice on cervical cancer awareness and screening.