Lee Pil-soo, president of the Korean Medical Association, has met with Pfizer Korea to discuss increasing the supply of Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccines in Korea.Lee met with Oh Dong-wook, country manager of Pfizer Korea, and executives of the company at the KMA’s office in Yongsan, Seoul, Wednesday.“As w
The Seoul National University College of Medicine said it has ranked 28th among medical schools in the world and second in Asia.According to British firm Quacquarelli Symonds’ QS World University Rankings by Subject 2021, SNU College of Medicine’s ranking marked 28thh in the world, second in Asia, a
Korean Medical Association President Choi Dae-zip suggested that President Moon Jae-in receive a Covid-19 vaccination to alleviate public anxiety over Covid-19 vaccines.On his social media post on Wednesday, Choi cited a man in his 50s who died on Wednesday morning after getting an AstraZeneca’s Cov
More than six out of 10 Korean people said they supported the government’s plan to increase the number of physicians, a survey showed.The Seoul National University Hospital’s Institute of Public Health and Medical Care released the survey results on Korean people, which aimed to understand their use
The medical community has delivered the recommended list of priority groups for Covid-19 vaccination to the health authorities.The Korean Medical Association (KMA) said on Thursday that it has sent the priority recommendation for Covid-19 vaccination to Health and Welfare Minister, Korea Disease Con
The outbreak of the new coronavirus (Covid-19) hit Korea hard in 2020. The pandemic is still threatening the nation with continuing outbreaks in greater Seoul. The medical community suffered a significant setback in hospital management due to Covid-19 responses. However, social distancing practices
The medical community called the third wave of the Covid-19 outbreak “a national healthcare crisis” and urged the government to take countermeasures swiftly.Korean Medical Association President Choi Dae-zip held a news conference in Seoul on Wednesday to declare a nation’s healthcare system crisis.“
A court sentenced a jail term on an Oriental medical practitioner for administering a highly-priced herbal acupuncture injection to a terminally ill cancer patient. The court found him guilty of fraud and breach of the Medical Service Act.The court said it could not evaluate the safety and efficacy
Seniors of the six-year medical colleges and the four-year medical graduate schools are volunteering to work at Covid-19 testing facilities to help combat the third wave of the Covid-19 outbreak.Most of them lost a chance to take the state medical licensing test earlier because they had refused to t
An employee at the Seoul National University Hospital’s Specimen Room used to be busy running around the hospital to deliver samples until early last year. It was always challenging for him to carry the specimen in the hospital corridors full of patients, guardians, and medical staff.However, the in
Local researchers said they have confirmed the safety and effectiveness of pure laparoscopic liver resection compared to open right hepatectomy (ORH) in liver transplantation.The liver transplant team, led by Professor Suh Kyung-suk at the Seoul National University Hospital’s Hepatobiliary and Pancr
Korea must introduce the employment sickness benefit scheme so that workers can receive timely treatment and get rest sufficiently, a lawmaker said.Rep. Ko Young-in of the ruling Democratic Party said in a news release on Tuesday that Korea was “almost the only country” among 36 OECD members with no
More than 60 percent of local cancer patients used tertiary hospitals, and 37 percent of them received treatment at one of the five largest hospitals in Korea, government data showed.Independent Rep. Lee Yong-ho of the National Assembly Health and Welfare Committee released the National Health Insur
A court recently sentenced a female doctor 10 months in prison and ordered to arrest her immediately after the verdict for causing a patient’s death by administering a colon cleanser without knowing the patient had a bowel blockage.The medical community expressed shock over the ruling, saying the pa
Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) Commissioner Jeong Eun-kyeong said she would integrate the nation’s infectious disease response system and enhance infectious disease research capabilities to fight Covid-19 and other new contagious diseases effectively.The nation’s chief of the dis
The Seoul National University Hospital said its research team of Professor Kwon Jun-soo at the Neuropsychiatry Department will participate in an international study to identify the cause of high-risk psychosis and develop tailor-made treatments.Supported by the U.S. federal government, the study wil
A majority of medical school students have refused to take the state medical licensing exam, but their parents are desperately pushing the doctors’ group to demand another chance.However, the government and the ruling party reiterated that they could not receive additional applications for the clini
After President Moon Jae-in threatened to take strong measures against doctors’ ongoing strike nationwide, Korean Medical Association President Choi Dae-zip called him “fascist.” At a meeting with church leaders at Cheong Wa Dae on Wednesday, Moon said doctors’ refusal to provide medical care in the Covid-19 crisis aggravated anxiety and pain of the Korean people.The world calls the fight
Talks between the medical community and the government failed to produce an agreement on whether to increase admission quotas at medical schools.Doctors said they would proceed with their initial walkout plans – a third strike by junior doctors on Friday and a second nationwide walkout by physicians on Wednesday next week.Health and Welfare Minister Park Neung-hoo and Korean Medical Associ
Korea Foundation for International Healthcare (KOFIH), a state agency that has globally promoted the “K-Quarantine” model amid the Covid-19 crisis, said it would help developing nations bolster primary care.“The basics of disease control and prevention are enhancing primary care, and KOFIH will go in that direction,” KOFIH President Choo Moo-jin said in an interview with Korea Biomedical Revie