Taiwan News, Newspaper 2011-11-17 Nine of the 22 cities and counties in Taiwan are running out of flu vaccine stocks for the annual free inoculation program that started on Oct. 1, a senior official at the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) said yesterday. The areas are the cities of Hsinchu, Taichung, Tainan, Chiayi, and...
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Focus Taiwan 2011/11/03 Taipei, Nov. 3 (CNA) Two students from the Sha-Lu Industrial Vocational High School in Taichung have contracted tuberculosis (TB), with nine others from the same school having tested positive for TB screening, a city health official said Thursday.   
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Focus Taiwan 2011/10/07 Taipei, Oct. 7 (CNA) A 45-year-old woman who had developed a 22-kg ovarian tumor without knowing about it until her father forced her to seek medical help has had the tumor removed, doctors at the Buddhist Tzu Chi General Hospital said Friday.   
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Focus Taiwan 2011/10/07 Taipei, Oct. 7 (CNA) A National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) research team has identified a protein that it described as a key to treating osteoporosis, a disease that lowers a person’s bone density, the southern Taiwan university said Friday. Chang Ming-shi, a professor at NCKU’s Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology,...
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The China Post October 2, 2011 TAIPEI–A growing number of more than 30,000 elderly people in Taiwan are receiving long-term care under the government’s 10-year long-term care project, the Ministry of the Interior (MOI) said yesterday. As Taiwan faces a bulging aging population, the government has implemented projects to provide senior citizens with day...
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