A recent poll showed 80 percent of Koreans were willing to get vaccinated against Covid-19, but 60 percent said they would wait some time to see how the vaccine works before getting the shot.The research team of Professor You Myung-soon at the Seoul National University’s Graduate School of Public He
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
All.Can International, a worldwide non-profit group of cancer patients, launched the Korean unit on Thursday, drawing attention to how it will carry out local activities in how much scope. The Korean branch of All.Can is the first in Asia.At an online press conference on Thursday, All.Can Korea rele
“I’m sharing these for free. Does anyone need Lomustin or Natulan (brain cancer treatment)?”“I’m selling a monthly dose of Extandi (prostate cancer drug).”Some online communities for cancer patients recently uploaded such postings where cancer patients gave out leftover orphan drugs and anticancer t
“At this very moment, babies with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) are being born who could lead a normal life with the use of Zolgensma somewhere in Korea. I can understand the regulator’s prudence before granting the nod for the first gene therapy, but the treatment has already won the license in adv
Korea needs to enact a law to protect employees' legal status at multinational pharmaceutical companies during their employers’ restructuring process, including spinoffs, a legal expert said Wednesday.Professor Kwon Oh-sung of the Department of Law at Sungshin Women's University stressed such a need
A global academic research information provider named 39 Korean researchers on the list of the world's most influential researchers. Among them, four are all specialists in hematology and oncology.On Wednesday, Clarivate Analytics announced the list of Highly Cited Researchers (HCR) who have publish
Nearly 1 million migrant workers in Korea could avoid Covid-19 cluster infections, unlike the recent Singapore case, where thousands of foreign workers were ordered to quarantine.However, the absence of such a cluster infection in Korea came at the expense of the migrant workers’ extreme avoidance o
Health experts criticized U.S. President Donald Trump for returning to the White House only three days after getting Covid-19 treatment at a military hospital.Trump, still infectious, did not comply with self-quarantine protocols and exposed the Covid-19 infection risk to other White House staff, th
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
Labor and civic groups intensely criticized the government for agreeing with striking doctors to put on hold the plan to increase medical school admissions and establish a public medical school.A total of 176 labor and civic groups held a news conference in front of Cheong Wa Dae on Friday to demand scrapping the pact, announced earlier in the day between the Korean Medical Association and the
One of the leading roles of “Hospital Playlist,” the popular TV miniseries aired from March to May, was a pediatric surgeon named Professor Ahn Jung-won. The audience sympathized with Professor Ahn, who laughed and cried while treating pediatric surgical patients with various stories in the drama and showed a doctor's desirable image. Professor Ahn was cool on the TV screen, but what will
The government is pushing to expand admission quotas at medical schools without any concrete, long-term strategy, an expert said.Han Hee-chul, chairman of the board of directors of the Korean Association of Medical Colleges (KAMC), said physicians opposed the plan because the government did not present any roadmap to advance the healthcare industry. Under the law since 2000, the government mus
The government and the medical community are moving to the verge of a head-on collision. Two weeks from now, many of the nation’s neighborhood clinics are likely to go on a strike in protest against what they call the “four evils” of the Moon Jae-in administration’s medical policy.Since he took office about three years ago, President Moon has tried to ease people’s financial burdens by tur
A majority of Koreans are unaware of serious complications that could occur by neglecting varicose vein disease, according to a recent survey.The Korean Society for Vascular Surgery (KSVS) and the Korean Society for Phlebology (KSP) conducted the opinion poll."It is urgent to improve the awareness that varicose vein is a serious disease that can cause serious complications if left untr
Healthcare experts expressed positive views on the government’s push for the introduction of telemedicine as part of the “Korean New Deal” policy.Kwon Soon-man, a Seoul National University Graduate School of Public Health professor, said it would be excessive to make non-face-to-face healthcare service illegal.His comments came at an academic debate on Covid-19 and the national health insu
The Covid-19 pandemic prompted the public health authorities to concentrate their work on the fight against the disease and become relatively loose on managing HIV infections under control.In dealing with HIV, it is best to find as many infected cases as possible and to provide antiviral treatment and prevent new infections as quickly as possible.Community public health centers are one of
The new coronavirus has made Korean people drink less alcohol but spend more time on online gaming and social media on smartphones, a survey showed. The survey, conducted by the Korean Addiction Forum (KAF), aimed to find how the Covid-19 outbreak affected the use of addictive drugs and behaviors.Celebrating its eighth anniversary, the KAF conducted the poll on 1,017 adults across the coun
People need to pay more attention to nutrition and physical activities to maintain a healthy life, especially in the Covid-19 pandemic, health experts said.Professor Lim Soo at the Internal Medicine Department of Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Professor Lim Hyun-jung at the Department of Medical Nutrition of Kyung Hee University, and Professor Jean-Pierre Després at the Department