BACKGROUND
Use of Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), an important category of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), has increased substantially in Western countries during the past decade.… (More)
BACKGROUND
The use of potentially inappropriate medications can have profound medical consequences for elderly patients and place a substantial burden on the health care system.
OBJECTIVES
This… (More)
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES
Virus hepatitis may lead to nephropathy as one of its multiple extrahepatic manifestations. Proteinuria by dipstick, a simple test in practice, is a useful and cardinal sign… (More)
BACKGROUND
The use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), including Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and acupuncture, has substantially increased in western countries in the past decade.… (More)
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is one of the leading causes of cancer death in Taiwan. In order to delineate the unique demographic features and clinical profile of terminal HCC, we conducted a… (More)
Hepatitis C virus (HCV) causes a persistent infection, chronic hepatitis and hepatocellular carcinoma. HCV NS5A, one of non-structural proteins of HCV, was suggested to play a role in oncogenic… (More)
ETHNOPHARMACOLOGICAL RELEVANCE
Chinese herbal medicine (CHM) has been commonly used in treating liver diseases in Asian countries.
AIM OF STUDY
To conduct a large-scale pharmacoepidemiological… (More)
We analyzed the anatomy and reconstruction of the right hepatic artery (RHA) in 96 cases of adult-to-adult living donor right liver transplantations, during 2002. Most right livers had a single… (More)
ED is a common channel for older people to seek for medical services. However, unlike most care homes in the world, veterans care home in Taiwan has a constantly operating outpatient and inpatient… (More)
BACKGROUND
In previous phase 1-2 clinical trials involving older adults, a subunit vaccine containing varicella-zoster virus glycoprotein E and the AS01B adjuvant system (called HZ/su) had a… (More)