COMING TO TAIWAN? A US aircraft carrier and its strike group have returned to the South China Sea as tensions with China rise over the House speaker’s
By Wu Po-hsuan and Jonathan Chin / Staff reporter, with staff writerThe Comic Exhibition yesterday opened its doors amid fanfare at the Taipei World T
LEAKS TO CHINA? The education minister said that an initial investigation of two professors had not achieved anything because of obstruction by Chines
By Shelley Shan / Staff ReporterRiders of motorcycles with engine displacement of more than 250 cubic centimeters (cc) could from next month be perman
最近網路上流傳一則消息,內容宣稱世界衛生組織(WHO)秘書長譚德塞(Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus)因違反危害人類罪與種族滅絕罪,目前已被國際刑警組織逮捕並且關押。經查核平台的查證,該消息來自一家專門撰寫虛構性諷刺文章的媒體,並非真實事件。
日本武漢肺炎(新型冠狀病毒病,COVID-19)疫情持續升溫,昨天新增近21萬例,今天(28日)更是單日新增超過23萬例確診,連續2天刷新最高紀錄;日本首都東京也首度單日新增超過4萬例確診。根據日本放送協會(NHK)報導,日本全國今天通報新增23萬3094例確診,創下疫情爆發2年多以來最高紀錄;另外
「沒有武漢肺炎(新型冠狀病毒病,COVID-19)感染,也會有類似長新冠症候群嗎?」胸腔暨重症專科醫師黃軒指出,雖然答案是「會出現」,但機率比確診過的患者還低!黃軒說,像是病人的家人(無論確診與否),也是會有很多精神方面的變化,這些都是要一起去關注的,而不是只有「長新冠」,在病毒大流行期間,都有可能
因應猴痘疫情,疾病管制署今天宣布,我國採購的猴痘口服抗病毒藥物「tecovirimat」已經在昨天晚間運抵台灣,該藥物將由醫師評估治療效益與風險,充分告知病患並獲得同意後提出申請,經審核通過後提供「重症」及「免疫低下確診個案」使用。疾管署指出,依據世界衛生組織(WHO)及歐洲疾病管制中心(ECDC)
今(28)日為世界衛生組織(WHO)訂定的「世界肝炎日」,根據衛福部報告估算,全國約有40萬名慢性C肝人數,其中有近25萬名分布在六都。民進黨立委洪申翰比較六都的C肝篩檢率發現,醫療資源最豐富的台北市,篩檢率卻墊底,也是全國倒數第二。洪痛批,台北市長柯文哲以台大醫師出身、智商157為名,但數據卻告訴
猴痘病毒在美國快速傳播,美國也成了全球疫情最嚴重的國家。美國27日再增1048例確診病例,創下單日確診新高。兩名知情人士透露,總統拜登預計在未來幾天內宣布猴痘為公共衛生緊急事件。根據《POLITICO》報導,美國衛生及公共服務部(Department of Health and Human Serv
A New Zealand couple who believed they had dug up the world’s largest potato in the garden of their small farm near Hamilton have had their dreams tur
在全球猴痘病例激增之際,大部分確診者為男男性行為者,世界衛生組織(WHO)今天呼籲,男同志及雙性戀男性應減少性伴侶人數。法新社報導,新英格蘭醫學期刊(New England Journal of Medicine)上週發表的研究發現,有98%的猴痘確診者為男同志或雙性戀男性,有95%的病例是經由性行
By Lee Hsin-fang and Jonathan Chin / Staff reporter, with staff writerAn end to a cap on spending for in vitro fertilization treatment (IVF) subsidies
By Chen Yu-fu and Kayleigh Madjar / Staff reporter, with staff writerPlans are under way to offer Hong Kongers who have been granted political asylum
CHINESE THREAT: US officials said the military would increase its movement of forces and assets in the Indo-Pacific region if the speaker decides to t
By Jason Pan / Staff reporterProsecutors have launched an investigation into alleged flaws and substandard work at the Hsinchu Baseball Stadium, after
猴痘被世衛組織(WHO)列為「國際關注公共衛生緊急事件(PHEIC)」,加上未來疫情趨緩可能開放邊境,猴痘會不會像COVID-19一樣造成大流行?中國醫藥大學新竹附設醫院感染科主任張凱音表示,近期猴痘傳染途徑主要是透過親密接觸行為,和COVID-19藉由飛沫與接觸傳染效率完全不一樣,民眾不需要特別恐
Japan baked under scorching temperatures for a fourth successive day on Tuesday, as the capital’s heat broke nearly 150-year-old records for June and
中國廿六日新增九七六例武漢肺炎(新型冠狀病毒病,COVID-19)確診,甘肅省占了三○六例,且光是甘肅省一地就有二九八個高風險區,是中國現有五五五個高風險區的一大半;五九二個中風險區其中也有二四五個位在甘肅省。為了「嚴防死守」控制疫情,一八六個風景區因此關閉。第一財經指稱,甘肅省原本該是暑期跨省旅遊
CHANGE: The Ministry of Labor separately announced that arriving migrant workers would no longer have to be covered by health insurance for COVID-19 i