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Study finds herbalists at higher urinary cancer risk

11/29/2012 majac Your Health Matters

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A small new study from Taiwan links a widely banned substance traditionally used in Chinese medicine to an elevated risk for kidney and bladder cancers among professional herbalists. Herbs, such as fang chi, that contain the plant-derived aristolochic acid, are known to cause cancer as well as kidney failure, and the current study suggests that working with these herbs raised urinary cancer rates among Taiwanese herbalists who handled fang chi before its ban in 2003. …

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Worker’s injury casts harsh new light on Foxconn and China

10/10/2012 majac Your Health Matters

HONG KONG (Reuters) – Apple Inc's largest contract manufacturer has been pushing for a Chinese worker left brain-damaged in a factory accident to be removed from hospital in a case that throws a harsh new spotlight on labor rights in China. Zhang Tingzhen, 26, an employee of Taiwan firm Foxconn, had nearly half his brain surgically removed after surviving an electric shock at a plant in southern China a year ago. He remains in hospital under close observation by doctors, unable to speak or walk properly. …

China, Taiwan, Zhang Tingzhen

East China Sea training merely an 'exercise' says Pentagon

09/26/2012 majac Exercise

Japan, Taiwan, and China have been contesting ownership of five deserted islets and three rocks in the East China Sea since oil reserves were detected nearby more than forty years ago. But new tensions were stoked this month when the Japanese …
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China, East China Sea, Taiwan

Taiwan minister calls on men to sit down to pee

08/29/2012 majac Your Health Matters

Taiwan's environmental minister is calling on the island's men to sit down when they urinate in order to keep toilets clean, drawing a mixed reaction from the public.

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Taiwan military launches computer-simulated exercise

07/17/2012 majac Exercise

Summary: Five-day exercise uses computer simulations of attack from China to see how Taiwan's military will perform in war environment, report states.
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China, Taiwan

Novel Thera-Band Exercise Reduces Pain and Improves Function in Knee …

06/30/2012 majac Exercise

Researchers in Taiwan recently created a novel exercise program for older adults suffering with knee osteoarthritis utilizing Thera-Band® Resistance Bands. The study, conducted on older women with mild-to-moderate knee osteoarthritis, showed …
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Unhealthy weight loss diets may result in older looks: doctor

06/28/2012 majac Your Health Matters

Taipei, June 28 (CNA) Over 60 percent of women in Taiwan follow unhealthy weight loss diets that may result in older looks and poor health, a doctor from a beauty clinic said Thursday.
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President to inspect live-fire military exercises

06/04/2012 majac Exercise

Taipei, June 4 (CNA) President Ma Ying-jeou will make an inspection tour of a live-fire joint-forces exercise scheduled for later this week in southern Taiwan, a defense official confirmed Monday. The inspection is part of the president's efforts to …
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PJ Media » On Exercise and Laugh Expectancy

05/22/2012 majac Exercise

It referred to a previous paper in that august publication from Taiwan about the health benefits of exercise. It is a medical truth now universally acknowledged that regular exercise prolongs human life, but it is not known what is the smallest …
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Exercising Even A Little Bit Makes It Easier For Smokers To Quit

04/20/2012 majac Exercise

But exercising can make quitting easier, and make sliding back into smoking less likely. That's the word from a big new study, which tracked the health and habits of 434190 people in Taiwan from 1996 to 2008. Smokers who got just 15 minutes of exercise …
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Taiwan stages military exercises aimed at China

04/19/2012 majac Exercise

AP HSINCHU, Taiwan — Taiwanese troops have practiced overtaking Chinese commandos landing at their base in a simulated air attack during an annual military exercise. During Thursday's drill at Hsinchu Air Base near Taipei, the troops were acting under …
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China, Hsinchu Air Base, Taiwan, Taiwan Taiwanese

Office workers not exercising enough: survey

02/12/2012 majac Exercise

12 (CNA) A great majority of office workers in Taiwan lack exercise and over 30 percent of them have not exercised at all over the past month, the Bureau of Health Promotion said Sunday. Having returned to work after the long Chinese New Year holiday …
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