An exhibition featuring works by five artists who only use their mouths and feet to paint has opened in Taichung’s Dali District (大里).
The exhibition, running through April 29, displays 35 oil and ink paintings made by Lin Yu-chen (林宥辰), Chien Jung-nan (簡榮男), Lin I-tung (林以通), Chang Chia-hsun (張家勳) and Tseng Chi-hsiung (曾啟雄), who have lost their hands or are paralyzed due to vehicle or workplace accidents.
They have overcome their physical challenges and “paint the beauty of life,” only using their mouths or feet to hold paint brushes, Dali District Administrator Cheng Cheng-chung (鄭正忠) said.
Cheng said he hoped the exhibition
Red spots on the palm of the hand could be sign of liver cancer, a Taichung-based doctor said on Thursday.
Liver cancer is rarely detected in the early stages, when medical intervention is most likely to succeed, said Chen Cheng-kuo (陳政國), a gastroenterologist at Asia University Hospital.
This is because the liver lacks pain receptors, making it necessary to look for other symptoms to detect the disease, he said.
Symptoms include “liver palms,” which refers to red patches or spots at the base of the thumb, spidery lines of inflamed capillaries that radiate from blemishes on the chest or in the extremities, and
By Chen Chien-chih and Jonathan Chin / Staff reporter, with staff writerRed spots on the palm of the hand could be sign of liver cancer, a Taichung-based doctor said on Thursday.
Legislative Speaker You Si-kun, center left, and Deputy Legislative Speaker Tsai Chi-chang, center right, hold Lunar New Year calligraphy banners at the Legislative Yuan’s Assembly Affairs Museum in Taichung’s Wufeng District yesterday.
Kaohsiung Medical University chairman Chen Chien-chih, third left, Kaohsiung Mayor Chen Chi-mai, center, Compal Group chairman Rock Hsu, second right, Raypal Biomedical Co chairman Ray Chen, right, and others yesterday attend the opening ceremony for a cell therapy laboratory that was jointly established by Kaohsiung Medical University Chungho Memorial Hospital and Raypal. Raypal is a medical subsidiary of Compal.