Organ donor registrations dropped by 48 percent during the COVID-19 pandemic, Taiwan Organ Sharing Registry and Patient Autonomy Promotion Center data show.
As of the end of June, there were more than 10,000 people waiting to receive an organ transplant, including 8,254 people waiting for a kidney, 1,002 people waiting for a liver, 217 people waiting for a heart, 93 people waiting for a lung and 89 people waiting for a pancreas.
Center executive director Liu Yueh-ping (劉越萍) said people can easily register to become an organ donor by using the National Health Insurance Express App (全民健保行動快易通APP) or by signing an organ
An expert has warned against eating poisonous fungi after a hiker spotted what he thought was the world’s deadliest fungi, called poison fire coral, but which turned out to be a less harmful species, Clavulinopsis miyabeana.
A hiker surnamed Lee (李) on Saturday said that he took a photograph of a cluster of red fungi he saw on his way to Gaoyaoshan (高腰山) in New Taipei City’s Wulai District (烏來) last month.
After discussing the picture with a retired science teacher, they concluded that it looked like poison fire coral, also known as Podostroma cornu-damae, which is native to Japan, but has
By Chiu Shu-yu and Kayleigh Madjar / Staff reporter, with staff writerChildren under the age of two should not use electronic devices, as it could delay language development, doctors said.
Children under the age of two should not use electronic devices, as it could delay language development, doctors said.
“My two-year-old can understand everything, but when they want something, they can only point,” one mother said when describing her child.
These “late talkers” can understand and interact as well as other children their age, but do not begin speaking until later, New Taipei City Tucheng Hospital physiatrist Liu Kuo-cheng (劉國正) said on Wednesday.
Last year, the majority of the 26,392 children treated for developmental issues were treated for language development, Ministry of Health and Welfare data showed.
Causes might be genetic or environmental, Liu