A new study suggests that commuting time is linked to depression.A research team, led by Dr. Lee Dong-wook, a professor in the Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine at Inha University Hospital, said Tuesday they have found that people who spend more than 60 minutes commuting to and f
Some severe heart failures, including Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction (HFpEF), should be upgraded to the specialized treatment disease group, or Group A, experts said Tuesday.Severe heart failures, which require treatment at a tertiary general hospital, are now classified as the gener
Seoul National University Bundang Hospital (SNUBH) has announced research findings that the use of five or more drugs and inappropriate medications among older adults in Korea is increasing annually, leading to a significant rise in the risk of death or disability.The research team at SNUBH, led by
Singer and producer Park Jin-young, more famously known as JYP, has donated 1 billion won ($763,766) to five hospitals in Korea to support the treatment costs for underprivileged children.JYP, the former head of JYP Entertainment, decided to make a generous donation to help children and adolescents
The policy to expand non-face-to-face medical treatment faces backlash from the medical community.Last Friday, the government announced the “Supplementary Plan for the Non-Face-to-Face Medical Treatment Pilot Project” and decided to expand the target of non-face-to-face medical treatment on holidays
The number of children infected with Mycoplasma pneumonia is surging, raising concerns about a potential "pediatric care crisis," according to warnings from pediatricians in Korea.The Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) conducted a nationwide sampling of 218 hospital-level medical ins
Many women who experience urinating problems think they have cystitis and take antibiotics. In reality, however, a “bladder symptom” often appears in the bladder, a muscle bag that stores urine, rather than cystitis, a condition in which bacteria invade the bladder and cause inflammation.In the YouT
Hemophilia is a bleeding disorder caused by a congenital, inherited mutation in a gene on the X chromosome that results in a lack of clotting factors in the blood.The standard treatment for hemophilia is “prophylaxis therapy,” the regular administration of factor 8 concentrates for people with hemop
There is a growing consensus that reimbursement reform is the only way to sustain Korea's national health insurance system in an era of low birth rates and growth.Experts emphasize that healthcare providers, consumers, and administrators must recognize that "they can no longer do things the same way
Turner syndrome is the most common of the sex chromosome abnormalities in women. Women are supposed to have two X chromosomes, but one of them is completely or partially missing in this rare disease. The most common symptom is short stature; the average adult female with Turner syndrome is 143 centi
Chronic kidney disease refers to the persistent passage of protein in the urine (proteinuria) or impaired kidney function. Patients with chronic kidney disease are 7.2 times more likely to die than those without it. It is also the disease with the highest medical expenses per patient.According to th
For the first time in Korea, a study has used a machine learning model to segment leukemia by cytogenetic characteristics and applied it to personalized treatment strategies for elderly acute myeloid leukemia patients.Acute myeloid leukemia is a blood cancer that is increasing as the population ages
Soonchunhyang University Bucheon Hospital said Monday it successfully treated extremely premature triplets who weighed only 660g, 550g, and 540g at birth.On July 17, a Vietnamese migrant woman delivered the premature triplets at 23 weeks gestation at the hospital, located in Bucheon, Gyeonggi Provin
Recently, dementia researchers have taken a keen interest in sleep.There are several reasons. Most of all, there is no cure for dementia, and there is a growing body of evidence that sleep is deeply related to dementia."That is because it has been confirmed that amyloid protein increases when there
Rheumatoid arthritis is common in adults, affecting an estimated 1 percent of the population, and especially so among women in their 30s. Can children get rheumatoid arthritis, then? The answer is yes. Although it's not common, children can develop rheumatoid arthritis."Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis
As addiction to narcotic painkillers (opioids) has become a social problem, doctors are faced with the challenge of prescribing them to patients who really need them.Against this backdrop, the Korean Pain Society has released guidelines for prescribing opioids adapted to Korean medical realities.The
The first oral drug for spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), Evrysdi (risdiplam), has produced encouraging results in various patient groups by exposing the drug more systemically to the entire body.Dr. Reiko Arakawa, a professor in the Department of Genomics at the National Center for Global Health and M
Atopic dermatitis experts have agreed that health insurance coverage standards should be relaxed to allow the cross-dosing of biologics and JAK inhibitors in cases of ineffectiveness or side effects.The Korean Atopic Dermatitis Association recently held its 23rd congress and unveiled revised “Atopic
Alcohol consumption may increase the risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) in people with fatty liver disease, a new study has shown.The National Institutes of Health (NIH) under the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) said Monday that its research team has reached such a conclusion wh
Researchers at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), in collaboration with the Korea Basic Science Institute (KBSI), have discovered a cellular protein that accelerates the toxicity leading to Alzheimer's disease, revealing a novel pathological network associated with the d