13, 2009 (CENS) -- Formosa Plastic Group, Taiwan's leading business conglomerate, plans to invest NT$5 billion in a land development project in conjunction with the A8 station, or the station of Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, of the airport mass transit system, in Linkou, Taipei County, the first time for the group to engage in a major land development project.
We chose Chang Gung Memorial Hospital (CGMH) as a study site because it has large obstetric and pediatric populations and serves residents from rural and urban areas in northern Taiwan (7).
of Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan, and colleagues found that the dark blue plant-based powder used in traditional Chinese medicine appears effective in treating the chronic skin disease for which no cure exists.
Hsueh) and Ear, Nose, and Throat (Drs Lee and Su), Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Tao Yuan, Taiwan, Republic of China; and the Department of Pathology, Children's Memorial Hospital, Chicago, Ill (Dr Gonzalez-Crussi).
Eyesight was restored or improved in 10 of 14 patients treated at the University of California at Davis Medical Center and in 6 of 6 patients undergoing the new transplant procedure at Chang Gung Memorial Hospital in Taiwan.
The Taiwanese researchers, led by ophthalmologist Ray Jui-Fang Tsai of Chang Gung Memorial Hospital in Taoyuan, report in the July 13 NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE that the visual acuity in five of their six patients has improved, corrected with eye-glasses, from an average of 20/112 to 20/45 after 15 months.
Lan C, Chen S-Y, Loi J-S, Wong M-K (Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, National Taiwan University Hospital; Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan), Med Sci Sports Exerc.
These data suggest that long-term treatment with BARACLUDE has the potential to stop liver damage and may even improve liver fibrosis caused by chronic hepatitis B infection," said Professor Yun-Fan Liaw, lead investigator for the Long-term Histology Cohort (subset of ETV-901), from Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan.
