AMC(also known as Seoul Asan Hospital) in Jamsil towered over me, gleaming in pearly white as I made my way through the endless corridors. Being the largest medical institution in Korea with a total of 2,700 beds and more than a thousand doctors, it’s easy to say that AMC can boast its major accomplishments over the years.Having performed 57,000 highly sophisticated surgeries per year, Asan Me
Green Cross LabCell got the patent to make mass production of the cell therapy product.The company (CEO Bok-soo Park) announced on the 13th it got the patent about the cultivation method of the natural killer cell using T-cell from the Korea Intellectual Property Office.The patent is about the company’s unique technology. The technology makes it possible to massively produce the natural ki
In the summer of 2016, a team assembled at the Royal College of Surgeons in London for one of the most special medical procedures: A post mortem (after death). But there is a difference in this post mortem: the team was specifically looking at how obesity affected the body. And the procedure will be filmed. It was a unique event and it raised a whole lot of ethical and practical challenges, includ
South Korea has the 11th-highest life expectancy in the world and the second-least obese rate in the OECD. South Korea maintains a universal healthcare system that is rated as the fourth most efficient healthcare system out of the 55 nations rated as of 2016 after Hong Kong, Singapore and Spain according to Bloomberg.Because of this, hundreds of foreign doctors live and study in Korean hospita
Every foreigner in Korea will relate to the stress and nerves of visiting a Korean hospital with language barriers and miscommunication that could lead to wrong diagnosis and medication, that may cause serious injury.But at the International Health Center in Myongji Hospital, their goal is to aid foreigners in Korea and also foreigners overseas. In their international homepage, Myongji states:
The role of salt has been an important topic in the field of public health with the increase of fast-food culture.Excess salt intake is believed to be a human health risk; however, recent studies drew attention to the role of fetuses in growth of babies and development of diseases in adulthood.It has been suggested that salt restriction during pregnancy has a critical influence on the fetu
If you’re a hardcore technology-loving geek who adores seeing trendy new gadgets, the fundamental rule is to visit Las Vegas for the largest Consumer Electronics Show (International CES).For 50 years, CES has been the founding platform for new technology that changed the world. The first CES started in New York in 1967 and it introduced the Videocassette Recorder (1970), Satellite Radio (2000)
The International Symposium on Hospice & Palliative Care Conference was held in DMC, Seoul on Wednesday December 7th with many prestigious doctors and professors from around the globe to discuss appropriate palliative care policies on supporting the health system.The future plan is to transform the health system by integrating palliative care into national health system through a public health