Liposomes for Medicine: Q & A with President of Taiwan Liposome Company
Liposomes, the microsocopic lipid vesicles that scientists have been making in great variety, are rapidly entering clinical medicine and are expected to improve how many diseases are treated. The Taiwan Liposome Company specializes in developing liposomes to improve how drugs are delivered. While we here at Medgadget normally don’t cover pharmaceuticals, anything that’s engineered at the nanoscale should interest our audience and we wanted to ask one of the commercial leaders in this field a bit about the industry. George Yeh is the President of Taiwan Liposome Company (TLC) and we thank him for fielding our qu...
Source: Medgadget - August 24, 2016 Category: Medical Equipment Authors: Editors Tags: Exclusive Source Type: blogs
Missile Accident Reminds U.S. of Dangers of Taiwan Commitment
Taiwan long has been one of the globe ’s most dangerous tripwires. Other than a brief period after World War II, the island has not been ruled by the mainland for more than a century. The 23 million people living on what was once called Formosa have made a nation.However, the People ’s Republic of China views Taiwan–also known as the Republic of China (ROC)–as part of the PRC. As China has grown wealthier, it has created a military increasingly capable of defeating Taiwan.At the same time, economic ties between the two nations have grown, yet the Taiwanese population has steadily identified more with Taiwan than th...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - August 15, 2016 Category: American Health Authors: Doug Bandow Source Type: blogs
Foracare TN'G Voice Meter: Great Option for PWD's With Visual Impairments (others, too!)
I pretty much limit my diabetes blogging these days, except when I think there ' s something REALLY important or unique to share, although much of what I began with now has several nonprofits and organizations to advance the issues. Most of my diabetes-related stuff these days can be found on my Twitter feed, which is updated pretty much daily. Still, when I need more space to share information, this blog is still where I turn.As I last blogged a few weeks ago (seehttp://goo.gl/mi5nEm for my post), I was very sorry when my good friend Kitty Castellini passed away, not from diabetes or diabetes-related issues, but...
Source: Scott's Web Log - July 25, 2016 Category: Endocrinology Tags: glucose meters blind. visually-impaired Kitty Kitty Castellini Source Type: blogs
Taiwan’s Best Option for Deterring China? Anti-Access/Area Denial
There are few David versus Goliath matchups in the international system quite like Taiwan versus China. Across virtually every indicator of national power, Taiwan is completely outclassed. In the past, Taiwan relied on a qualitatively superior military and an implicit U.S. security guarantee to maintain its de facto independence, but advances in military technology have enabled Beijing to close the quality gap. Taiwan’s military equipment and doctrine is ill-suited to this new reality. If Taiwan wishes to preserve its de facto independence, it must take a page out of Beijing’s playbook and adopt an anti-access/area den...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - April 7, 2016 Category: American Health Authors: Eric Gomez Source Type: blogs
Will China Accept Taiwan’s Political Revolution?
The objective would be to make it easier for both China and Taiwan to “kick the can down the road.” A final resolution of their relationship would be put off well into the future.
The ROC’s people have modeled democracy with Chinese characteristics. Hopefully someday the PRC’s people will be able to do the same.
In the meantime, President-elect Tsai is set to govern a nation which has decisively voted for change. However, if the PRC’s leaders fear they are about to “lose” the island—and perhaps even power at home—they may feel forced to act decisively and coercively. International ambiguity remains a sm...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - January 21, 2016 Category: American Health Authors: Doug Bandow Source Type: blogs
2016
Happy New Year. It has been so long since I posted. Those thoughts don ' t come as readily as they used to! Hope everyone had a good holiday. Our holiday was a little on the quiet side which was good for me. My son and daughter-in-law spent the Christmas Holiday in Taiwan visiting Jennifer ' s extended family. So, we didn ' t put as many decorations up and that suite me fine. I don ' t like (Source: Dealing with Alzheimer's Blog)
Source: Dealing with Alzheimer's Blog - January 4, 2016 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Kris Source Type: blogs
China and Taiwan Meet: A Brief Opportunity for U.S. to Promote Peace?
Chinese President Xi Jinping and Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou recently met in Singapore. Never before has Beijing treated the island’s government as an equal. It was a small step for peace, but the circle remains to be squared.
China insists that Taiwan is a wayward province, while the vast majority of Taiwanese feel no allegiance to the People’s Republic of China. If, as expected, Taiwan’s opposition presidential candidate Tsai Ing-wen wins in January, relations between the two states are likely to shift into reverse.
The island of Formosa, or Taiwan, separated from the mainland when the Kuomintang government re...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - November 18, 2015 Category: American Health Authors: Doug Bandow Source Type: blogs
Taiwan Tensions Return
The Taiwan issue, which has been mercifully quiescent since the election of Ma Ying-jeou as Taiwan’s president in 2008, shows increasing signs of returning as a major source of geopolitical tensions. That point was underscored this week when Zhang Zhijun, the head of China’s Taiwan Affairs Office, the agency with primary responsibility for dealing with the self-ruled island, warned the Taiwanese that they must not return to “the evil ways of independence.” He added that the Taiwanese people would “soon have to choose” between continuing the development of peaceful economic and political ties with the mainla...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - August 6, 2015 Category: American Health Authors: Ted Galen Carpenter Source Type: blogs
Washington’s Taiwan Headache Returns
Ted Galen Carpenter
As if the United States didn’t already have enough foreign policy worries, a dangerous issue that has been mercifully quiescent over the past five years shows signs of reviving. Taiwan’s governing Kuomintang Party (KMT) and its conciliatory policy toward Beijing suffered a brutal defeat in elections for local offices on November 29. Indeed, the extent of the KMT’s rout made the losses the Democratic Party experienced in U.S. midterm congressional elections look like a mild rebuke. The setback was so severe that President Ma Ying-jeou promptly resigned as party chairman. Al...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - December 8, 2014 Category: American Health Authors: Ted Galen Carpenter Source Type: blogs
U.S. Arms Sales to Taiwan: A Delicate, Troublesome Issue
Ted Galen Carpenter
The Taiwan issue, which was a source of repeated tension between Washington and Beijing for decades, has been mercifully quiet for the past five years. Ma Ying-Jeou’s election as Taiwan’s president in 2008 marked the onset of a decidedly more conciliatory approach toward the mainland than the policies his immediate predecessors pursued, and U.S. leaders were relieved to put the contentious matter of the island’s status on the diplomatic back burner. But, as I discuss in a new article in China-U.S. Focus, there are now signs that the period of quiescence may be coming to an end.
Because of domesti...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - November 7, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Ted Galen Carpenter Source Type: blogs
First imported human infection with avian influenza H7N9
From the Centers for Disease Control in Taiwan:
In the late afternoon of April 24, 2013, the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) confirmed the first imported case of H7N9 avian influenza in a 53-year-old male Taiwanese citizen who worked in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, China prior to illness onset. He developed his illness three days after returning to Taiwan. Infection with avian influenza A (H7N9) was confirmed on April 24, 2013. The patient is currently in a severe condition and being treated in a negative-pressure isolation room.
It’s not clear how the patient acquired the infection in China; he had no contact wi...
Source: virology blog - April 24, 2013 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: Events Information avian influenza H7N9 China imported infection Jiangsu Province pandemic Suzhou Taiwan viral virology virus Source Type: blogs
Angiostrongyliasis in Taiwan
The following background on angiostrongyliasis in Taiwan was abstracted from Gideon www.GideonOnline.com and the Gideon e-book series. [1,2]
=Time and Place:
- Angiostrongyliasis was first reported in Taiwan in 1945.
- The disease is most common among children, with highest rates during the summer rainy season.
- Infection is often diagnosed among Thai laborers who ingest raw snails (Ampullarium canaliculatus, Achatina fulica).
- Angiostrongyliasis has been reported in a child who raised snails (Ampullarium canaliculatus) as pets.
- 125 cases of angiostrongyliasis were reported in southern Taiwan during 1968 to 1969, with ...
Source: GIDEON blog - February 5, 2013 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Dr. Stephen Berger Tags: Ebooks Epidemiology ProMED angiostrongyliasis Taiwan Source Type: blogs
