Taipei Veterans General Hospital

Our major achievements in education, research and health-care services are as follows: * Education As a national medical center and a teaching hospital, this hospital provides undergraduate medical education programs for medical students, and residency programs for physicians licensed to practice medicine in Taiwan * Medical Research 1. We successfully utilized vaccine against hepatitis B virus(HBV) in 1981, and in the same year we were the first in the country to successfully detect Downs Syndrome through Amniocentesis in the fetus, and simultaneously established the first sperm banking in Taiwan. 2. The computer-monitored resectoscope for transurethral prostatectomy was invented in1983 and was internationally patented. 3. The first IVF baby of Taiwan was born at our hospital in 1985. 4. In 1986, Virologists of this hospital harvested the first AIDS virus in Asia. 5. In 1989 during researching into the role of papillomavirus in the pathogenesis of cervical cancer, we fo...