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About 40,000 corneal transplants are performed annually in the U.S. according to the Eye Bank Association of America. It is the most common transplant procedure performed in the U.S. Kao said the procedure is the only effective treatment for certain...

Health authorities reported yesterday that a 53-year-old woman with underlying health conditions has died from influenza A(H1N1), the 33rd person in Taiwan to die from the virus. H1N1 flu had been patients of chronic diseases, “ said Chou Jih-haw, deputy...

The World Health Organization (WHO) is to hold a workshop in Taipei for the first time since Taiwan was admitted in May as an observer to the world health body's decision-making arm, the World Health Assembly. Chiou Shu-ti, director-general of...

Every year in Taiwan, around 10,000 people are diagnosed with liver cancer and 7,000 others die of the disease. And now, an innovative type of radiation therapy adopted by one of the country's leading hospitals may provide greater hope of...

A 41-year-old woman in her 38th week of pregnancy underwent emergency surgery to have her dead unborn baby removed Thursday, seven days after she was vaccinated against influenza A(H1N1). It was Taiwan's first case of miscarriage suspected to have resulted...

The number of Taiwanese suffering from chronic insomnia has nearly doubled in three years, as economic worries caused by the global downturn have brought more sleepless nights, according to a new study. Nearly five million, or 21.8 percent of the...

Premier Wu Den-yih instructed the Executive Yuan Thursday to establish a central command to stem the spread of dengue fever. Wu gave a directive for Department of Health (DOH) Minister Yaung Chih-liang to head the task force, which will be...

They're the 13.7 million Americans under 30 who don't have health insurance because, they firmly believe, they just don't need it. Why waste money on something they're too healthy to ever use? In the debate over health care, lawmakers and...