Use of YouTube by academic medical centres during the COVID-19 pandemic: an observational study in Taiwan.

Objectives: YouTube has been of immense importance in conveying essential information on COVID-19 and promoting the latest healthcare policies during the outbreak. However, there have been few studies that have focused on how healthcare organisations have used YouTube to communicate with the public and increase their awareness during the pandemic, as well as its effectiveness.

Design: A nationwide observational study.

Risk Factors Surrounding an Increase in Burnout and Depression Among Health Care Professionals in Taiwan During the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Objectives: This study aimed to investigate the risk factors surrounding an increase in both burnout levels and depression among health care professionals in Taiwan through use of a longitudinal study design.

Design: This is a 2-year observational study that took place from January 2019 to December 2020.

Setting And Participants: Data among health care professionals were extracted from the Overload Health Control System of a tertiary medical center in central Taiwan.

Use of Facebook by Academic Medical Centers in Taiwan During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Observational Study.

Background: The battle against COVID-19 remains ongoing, and social media has played an important role during the crisis for both communication and health promotion, particularly for health care organizations. Taiwan's success during the COVID-19 outbreak is well known and the use of social media is one of the key contributing factors to that success.

Objective: This nationwide observational study in Taiwan aimed to explore the use of Facebook by academic medical centers during the COVID-19 pandemic.

A Strategic Imperative for Promoting Hospital Branding: Analysis of Outcome Indicators.

Background: Optimizing the use of social media to promote hospital branding is important in the present digital era. In Taiwan, only 51.1% of hospitals have official Facebook fan pages.

Illustrating the roles of C-reactive protein in the development of the metabolic syndrome in women--a cross-racial validation.

Background And Aims: This study was designed to elucidate the role of C-reactive protein (CRP) as an inflammatory marker in the development of the metabolic syndrome (MS).

Methods And Results: A total of 333 women without current medication attended an obesity-screening programme held in Yun-Lin, Taiwan. Anthropometric measurements were obtained; biochemical profiles, lipid profiles and high-sensitivity CRP (hsCRP) were measured.

Nuclear translocation of telomerase reverse transcriptase and calcium signaling in repression of telomerase activity in human lung cancer cells by fungal immunomodulatory protein from Ganoderma tsugae.

Recombinant fungal immunomodulatory protein, reFIP-gts, was cloned from Ganoderma tsugae and purified. In our previous study, it was shown that reFIP-gts has anti-telomerase effects in A549 cells. Here, we proved that reFIP-gts entry into the cell and localization in endoplasmic reticulum can result in ER stress, thereby increasing ER stress markers (CHOP/GADD153) and intracellular calcium release in A549 cells.

Serum C-reactive protein levels correlates better to metabolic syndrome defined by International Diabetes Federation than by NCEP ATP III in men.

The International Diabetes Federation (IDF) proposed a new definition for metabolic syndrome (MS) in 2005. We conducted this study to compare the association of MS by IDF and ATP III definition to various metabolic variables. In 2005, we enrolled 654 Chinese people in a screening program in Taiwan.