STAFF TESTED: The suspected cluster involves two imported cases who stayed in adjacent rooms during quarantine and carried the Delta strain of the cor
GENETIC CLUES: As SLE mostly affects women, female family members of people with the mutations that cause the disease should be tested regularly, an N
英國政府7月19日起解除大部分防疫措施,當時引發不少科學家不滿;昨(19)日解禁滿1個月,英國巴斯大學數學生物中心聯合主任葉茨(Kit Yates)透露,現在平均每天染疫死亡為90例,每天約800名患者因染疫住院,仍讓醫療體系面臨壓力,9月開學也將面臨挑戰。
NEW POLICY: The Central Epidemic Command Center said the requirement is in response to the global spread of the highly transmissible Delta variant of
FALLING INTO PLACE: The Central Epidemic Control Center said that, based on the COVAX list, 200,000 doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine should be
美國食品藥品監督管理局(FDA)週二表示已核准首個家用武肺病毒自我檢測套組(COVID-19 self-testing kit),據報30分鐘內可得知結果。綜合外媒報導,FDA表示,Lucira Health的一次性檢測試劑(The Lucira COVID-19 All-In-One Test K
By Chen Yun / Staff reporterThe Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) caucus yesterday urged the government to change the nation’s COVID-19 testing methods
POLICY EXPLAINED: The head of the CECC said that mass testing would have produced 12,475 false-positives, overwhelming the healthcare system, causing
QUICK ACTION: Researchers are working on two other types of rapid screening kits, as well as on a potential vaccine for the treatment of COVID-19 pati
By Lee I-chia / Staff reporterThe National Health Research Institute (NHRI) and the National Defense Medical Center yesterday announced a prototype CO
/ Staff writer, with CNAThe National Health Research Institutes (NHRI) yesterday said it has developed a rapid-testing kit that can screen people for
IN IT TOGETHER: ’Academia Sinica’s achievements and expertise are impressive... The United States can benefit greatly,’ the American institute in Taiw
RAT PROBLEM: A health department inspection of the fishing boat the man works on found a rat that tested positive for hantavirus, but no one else has
By Lee I-chia / Staff reporterThe Taiwan Association for Global Health Diplomacy (TAGHD) yesterday said that it has launched a crowdfunding campaign t
Beauty sleep is a real thing. People who miss out on sleep do appear less attractive to others. They are rated by strangers as less healthy and approa
儘管謠傳的第二代Apple Watch還沒現身,但第三代的Apple Watch作業系統watchOS 3卻早就在6月的WWDC中亮相,並將在下個月釋出,除了強調可以加快執行速度、讓Apple Watch不會頓頓外,還出現一個號稱全球首創的輪椅模式,而令人好奇這輪椅模式到底是噱頭?還是輪椅族真的需要
在蘋果去年 3 月公佈可供醫療機構運用的雲端數據機制「Research Kit」之後,除了結合大型醫療體系進行遠端醫療服務外,最重要的就是可透過廣大的 iPhone 手機與 Apple Watch 用戶,搭配 Health Kit 生理監測功能進行數據收集,進行廣泛且長時間的醫療研究,這對於以往較難達成的流行病學調查或是慢性病長期研究相當具有幫助,而日本的慶應大學醫學部便利用這樣的方式,進行現代人腦中風的相關研究。
針對健康照護市場,蘋果公司在先前已推出了可跟醫療專業系統整合的 Health Kit 應用,並且在 iPhone 跟 Apple Watch 上面導入了健康以及活動紀錄 APP,但蘋果 CEO Tim Cook 並不滿足與此,稍早在接受國外媒體專訪的時候表示,蘋果將開發新的健康照護應用,將會比 Apple Watch 更加專業,並且真正可以跟醫療專業領域結合。
蘋果電腦在剛才發出消息,宣佈今年度的開發者大會將於 6 月 8 日起在舊金山的 Moscone 中心舉行,預期會中可能發表新版的 iOS 或是 Mac OS 作業系統,至於之前傳說如 4K Apple TV 甚至是大尺寸 iPad Pro 新平板等硬體,在以軟體開發為主的 WWDC 大會中出現的機會並不高。
蘋果Spring Foward發表會落幕,總共四大重點,包括HBO NOW+Apple TV、12吋視網膜螢幕的MacBook(1299美元)、349美元起跳的Apple Watch與透過iPhone運作的遠端照護平台Research Kit。