Taiwan Health News

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...

An estranged couple whose case was in family court Monday may be on the cutting edge of marital disputes. The issue: Whether their healthy, school-age daughter will be given the swine flu vaccine...Barring a last minute agreement, a judge on...

Amoebiasis, an infection with the single-celled amoeba Entamoebia histolytica, normally is very rare. You only catch it in a few developing countries where the amoeba is endemic, and where hygiene is somewhat substandard, leading to contact with contaminated water It...

Oral cancer is now the type of cancer most likely to be contracted by young Taiwanese men its mortality rate is expected to rise continually over the next decade, a public health official said yesterday. Chao Kun-yu, deputy director of...