Yvonne Liu

Aug 15, 2024 | nexttribe.com | Yvonne Liu

Botox. Check. (My first time, I swear, and only between the eyebrows.) Brown spots on my face erased. Check. Teeth bleached to a blinding white. Check. It was countdown time to my daughter’s wedding last March. “You have Mr. Spock eyebrows,” my daughter quipped at the bridal shower I hosted the week before her wedding. A medical student, she eagerly offered her professional opinion. However, when I ask her for medical advice, she answers, “You should ask your doctor.” Well, I liked my new eyebrow arches.

Aug 13, 2024 | mdpi.com | Xitong Li |Yvonne Liu |Xin Chen |Christoph Reichetzeder

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May 11, 2024 | huffingtonpost.jp | Yvonne Liu

昨年まで、私はイリノイ州のシカゴ生まれだと言っていた。学校書類から大学や職場の申請書、そして医療記録にさえも、私の出生地は「イリノイ州」と記載されていた。 でも、それは嘘だ。 実際は、私は会ったこともない女性のもと、香港で生まれた。そしてそれから60年以上経った昨年まで、自分が養子であることを秘密にしていた。 何十年もの間、私は夫と3人の子どもたちと共に、郊外で良い暮らしを送っていた。その間ずっと、暖炉の上に飾られている写真に映る、魅力的で優秀な夫婦の間に生まれたと人々を信じ込ませていた。両親が私を養子にしたことを恥じていたように、私も養子であることを恥じていた。 中国の伝統的な文化的信念に縛られ、両親は私と兄に、養子だということを秘密にするよう誓わせた。不妊や養子縁組に対する恥やスティグマは、両親にとって耐え難いものだった。 孔子とその信者たちは、女性の最大の務めは男児を産むことだと信じていた。私の母は、息子はもちろん、娘さえ産むことができなかった。...

Mar 1, 2024 | openres.ersjournals.com | Stephanie Thee |Yvonne Liu |Charlotte O. Pioch |Christine Allomba

IntroductionPulmonary symptoms and complications are not only a frequent clinical manifestation of inborn errors of immunity (IEI), but also the major cause of morbidity and mortality in this patient group [1–3]. Despite improved treatment options for defects of the immune system including immunoglobulin replacement therapy, respiratory tract infections continue to occur, leading to chronic structural lung diseases [1, 4, 5].

Oct 31, 2023 | therumpus.net | Yvonne Liu

As a fellow adoptee, I was excited to connect with author, filmmaker, and adoptee advocate Angela Tucker, author of  You Should be Grateful: Stories of Race, Identify, and Transracial Adoption (Beacon Press, 2023). Tucker, a Black woman born in Tennessee, spent thirteen months in foster care before a white couple in Bellingham, Washington, adopted her. When Tucker read her own adoption case report as an adult, she was dismayed to see how the social worker had portrayed her.