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
Sixty Korean scientists have been ranked among the "top 1 percent" of the world's most influential researchers. In particular, 10 of them are among the top 1 percent of researchers in clinical medicine. All of them are specialists in hematology-oncology.Clarivate, a global scholarly information anal
A lawsuit against a hospital seeking 1.7 billion won ($1.3 million) in indemnity for brain damage to a newborn due to medical negligence during childbirth was dismissed in the first trial, but partial compensation was awarded on appeal.Although there was no other negligence, the hospital violated it
Samsung Medical Center (SMC) said it has achieved a groundbreaking milestone by completing the first uterus transplant in Korea. Conducted by a multidisciplinary team, the uterus transplant involved transferring the uterus of a brain-dead woman to a 35-year-old recipient diagnosed with Mayer-Rokitan
Korean doctors have developed a model to predict postoperative scar severity using artificial intelligence (AI).A research team -- led by Professors Kim Je-min and Kim Ji-hee of the Department of Dermatology at Yongin Severance Hospital and Professor Lee Ju-hee of the Department of Dermatology at Se
One of the most common problems with chemotherapy for breast cancer is that the nails become brittle and change color. Sometimes, the nails become very thin and break; sometimes, they thicken like an athlete's foot. Can these nail problems be prevented?"It is very common for breast cancer patients t
Researchers from Korea Basic Science Institute (KBSI) and Hanyang University have developed a high-sensitivity rapid diagnostic paper slip chip that can effectively detect C-reactive protein (CRP) using non-invasive methods such as saliva and human blood.CRP is a representative acute phase reactive
A robot developed by Asan Medical Center (AMC)'s Institute of Biomedical Engineering is attracting attention after the hospital's cardiologists performed a successful heart stent procedure on a patient with angina using it.This marks a significant development in the domestic robotic surgical device
Crohn's disease, an inflammatory bowel disease, was rare. However, it has been increasing recently, and there are estimated to be about 25,000 patients in Korea.Pediatric Crohn's disease accounts for about 20 percent of the total, with an estimated 5,000 children patients. Pediatric Crohn's disease
With the recent release of the results of the phase 3 studies -- KEYNOTE-859 and KEYNOTE-811 -- of the anti-PD-1 immunotherapy Keytruda (pembrolizumab), immunotherapy is becoming a backbone agent along with conventional chemotherapy in the first-line treatment of advanced gastric cancer, regardless
