Role of the Funding Source Dr Jeng received funding from the National Science Council (NSC 952314-B-002-218-MY3), and Ms Chen received funding from the National Taiwan University Hospital (96-S634).
Ruey-Meei Wu of the department of neurology at National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, and her colleagues genotyped 125 patients (69 women) with sporadic idiopathic PD and 162 age-and gender-matched control patients (90 women) from a rural area of southern Taiwan for four glutathione S-transferase (GST) genes (GSTM1, GSTPl, GSTTl, and GSTZl).
Acknowledgments We thank pediatric ophthalmologist Ai-Hou Wang from the Pediatric Ophthalmology and Adult Strabismus Department of Ophthalmology, National Taiwan University Hospital, for suggesting the exclusion criteria of the Teller Acuity Cards.
A doctor at National Taiwan University Hospital said Wu was suffering from an irregularly low temperature and slow heartbeat, but her condition was not serious.
Participants also reported persistent anxiety (41%) and sense of fear (54%), which may explain the high prevalence of somatic symptoms such as muscle ache (25%), fatigue (35%), and chest tightness (37%); 11 residents with somatic complaints came to the National Taiwan University Hospital for a more detailed examination, and none of them showed any additional sign or laboratory abnormalities.
Confucius Daniel Fu-Chang Tsai, MD, PHD From the Departments of Social Medicine and Family Medicine, National Taiwan University College of Medicine, and the Department of Medical Research, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan.
Last October at a meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research in Seattle, Chiun Hsu of National Taiwan University Hospital in Taipei reported that, from 1981 to 2000, a huge increase in oral cancer among Taiwanese men parallels a nearly sevenfold increase in Taiwan's production of areca nuts, making them Taiwan's second-largest crop.
In early December surgeons at National Taiwan University Hospital in Taipei performed Taiwan's first transplant between donors with different blood types.
