A 33-month-old girl, rescued from an irrigation ditch while her parents were working on a farm in Boeun, North Chungcheong Province, died after a tertiary hospital refused to receive her, local media reports said. Nonetheless, an emergency medicine specialist noted that a tertiary hospital transfer
Trainee pediatricians who have left hospitals have come forward to demand a fundamental package to resuscitate essential medicine. They say they could not help but quit to block the government's wrong policies.Interns and residents who walked off their jobs at pediatrics departments at 18 major hosp
Korean researchers identified the mechanism of brain tumor recurrence through cancer protein genome analysis "for the first time in the world," a local cancer hospital said. The National Cancer Center (NCC) said Wednesday that Dr. Park Jong-bae, head of the Cancer Proteomics Division, and Dr. Kim Ky
As life expectancy increases, dental implants' "long-term stability" is becoming increasingly important. That’s because as people age, the number of missing teeth increases, and as life expectancy also increases, people must be able to use implants for longer periods.Straumann Korea, the Korean offs
Myongji Hospital and Rokit Healthcare, a company specializing in organ regeneration, have agreed to join forces to research and develop diabetic foot treatment technology using 3D bioprinting.Myongji Hospital President Kim Jin-goo and Rokit Healthcare Chairman and CEO You Seok-hwan signed the agreem
If a liver cancer patient has undergone third-line therapy following immunotherapies Tecentriq (atezolizumab) and Avastin (bevacizumab), but the liver cancer has progressed, leading to lung metastasis, what is the subsequent treatment plan?What is the rate of patients who do not respond to this thir
As the resignations of interns and residents enter a second month, various healthcare workers, including nurses, are reeling from the growing workload.Especially worrying is not only physician assistant (PA) nurses but also general-duty nurses are being forced to do doctors' work, resulting in a dan
Backing away from its hardline stance, the Korean government has expressed its willingness to become more flexible in imposing punitive measures against resigned interns and residents and talk with them.Still, the conciliatory moves seem to have fallen short of changing the minds of trainee doctors,
Multiple sclerosis (MS), a rare and incurable disease that affects women of childbearing age between 20 and 40, is characterized by invading the central nervous system, such as the brain and spinal cord, and damaging the nerves, resulting in various symptoms and worsening with repeated relapses.MS c
Senior doctors who both practice medicine and teach medical school students are resigning across the country.As of Monday morning, 433 professors at three hospitals affiliated with the University of Ulsan College of Medicine—Asan Medical Center, Ulsan University Hospital, and GangNeung Asan Hospital
In a ward that's been meticulously replicated to mirror the real thing, a mannequin patient lies in bed.Suddenly, an announcement echoes throughout the space: the patient has unexpectedly entered a state of cardiac arrest. Nursing students from Seoul Women's College of Nursing promptly check the pat
As the Claudin 18.2 protein, also called CLDN18.2, emerges as a new target for treating gastric cancer, Astellas' first CLDN18.2-targeted cancer drug, zolbetuximab, is in the final stage of its launch, drawing the industry’s attention.However, the changing landscape of metastatic gastric cancer trea
More than a month after interns and residents left hospitals in protest against the government's expansion of medical school enrollment quota, a university hospital professor who kept working at the hospital, has died, shocking the medical community.Pusan National University Hospital (PNUH) said a p
Medical costs for cancer treatment exceeded 10 trillion won ($7.5 billion) for the first time in Korea last year.According to the Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service (HIRA) analysis of malignant neoplasm treatment status over the past five years, the number of cancer increased by 18.1 per
A Yonsei University research team has uncovered that the quality and length of a woman's hair may play a significant role in the sexual dynamics of a marriage.The survey conducted on 204 couples in Korea suggests that women with long and high-quality hair experience more frequent sexual intercourse
"We're not asking for health insurance benefits. We are asking for the opportunity to be treated in Korea, even at our own expense."Korean neuroendocrine tumor patients said so after the Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service (HIRA) said last Friday that it is difficult to lift the limit of
Korean trainee doctors, seeking intervention from the International Labor Organization (ILO) to defy the government's return-to-work order, were rejected as ineligible for an opinion, the Korean government said.Earlier, the Korea Intern Resident Association (KIRA) sent an urgent intervention request
Researchers at Seoul National University Bundang Hospital (SNUBH) has successfully completed the "Drug-Induced Sleep Endoscopy AI Learning Data Construction National Project" with the highest grade rating.Drug-induced sleep endoscopy (DISE) is a widely used procedure for diagnosing and treating cond
In 2022, 80.6 percent of nurses left hospitals after working less than five years in their current workplaces. Those who left after less than a year accounted for 43.4 percent. Among those who quit, 10.8 percent gave up their job for good, and 57.4 percent of new nurses quit within a year of their w
A cardiothoracic surgeon’s resignation letter has left a lingering impression on many people involved in the ongoing medical turmoil in Korea.Choi Se-hoon, an associate professor of cardiothoracic and vascular surgery at Asan Medical Center (AMC) in Seoul, has recently announced his resignation.In a