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.
No randomized trial of whole-body MRI screening in asymptomatic adults has a mortality endpoint. Pooled cancer detection is 1.57% and 32.1%...
Taiwan sorts food into warming (熱) and cooling (涼), and the vocabulary runs from 上火 to ginger-duck winter and 坐月子. Here is the system...
Taiwan's National Health Insurance has reimbursed Traditional Chinese Medicine since 1996, and TCM departments sit inside major hospitals ra...
Visceral fat around your organs predicts metabolic risk better than the scale. The IDF flags a waist over 90 cm in men and 80 cm in women; a...
In Taiwan, "we will study it" means no. A decoder for indirect refusals, why face and high-context communication shape every conversation, h...
Taiwan removed its public trash cans on purpose, and every evening a garbage truck playing Für Elise draws the whole neighborhood outside. H...
Taiwan ranks fourth in the world on Numbeo's safety index, and daily life shows it: phones reserve café tables, night walking is unremarkabl...
Taiwan has no tipping culture, and trying to tip usually gets your money handed back. What the 10% service charge actually is, why service i...
In May 2026, 56 organizations renamed polycystic ovary syndrome to Polyendocrine Metabolic Ovarian Syndrome (PMOS). Why the old name misled...
