Essays from our clinicians and concierge team on preventive medicine, longevity research, and the patients whose journeys shape how we work.
New reading, updated regularly. Every essay is written, edited, and reviewed in-house by our clinical and concierge teams.
IARC calls H. pylori a Group 1 carcinogen. Taiwan's Matsu mass-eradication program cut gastric cancer incidence by 53%, 95% CI 30% to 69%. O...
No single screening test sees the whole body. MRI and ultrasound use no radiation; RadiologyInfo puts a low-dose lung CT at 1.5 mSv, a calci...
In Taiwan, a single-region MRI through New Dawn Health costs $310 without contrast and $550 with contrast, and a single-region CT costs $210...
Visitors cannot use Taiwan's National Health Insurance: the NHIA requires an Alien Resident Certificate plus six months of continuous reside...
Waist size adds information that BMI misses. In a US study of 15,184 adults (NHANES III), men of normal BMI with central obesity had a hazar...
The USPSTF graded clinician skin cancer screening in asymptomatic adults an I statement in April 2023. A lesion you already noticed is a dif...
Sarcopenia is low muscle strength together with low muscle quantity or quality. A 2022 meta-analysis of 692,056 people put its prevalence at...
Atrial fibrillation is associated with a near fivefold excess of stroke, and in one registry of 15,308 people with a first episode, 32% had...
In a meta-analysis of 1.38 million people, long sleepers had a 1.30-fold risk of death, higher than short sleepers' 1.12. Long sleep is usua...