When liver cancer patients experience worsened blood circulation, they may develop ascites or edema -- too much fluid in the abdomen or swelling caused by too much fluid trapped in the body's tissues. Experts note, however, that ascites could be managed through the right diet. A low-sodium diet is k
Nurses working at intensive care units think they faithfully meet obligations to wear personal protective gear, but their actual wearing of such gear was relatively poor, a study showed.Researchers at Kangdong Sacred Heart Hospital conducted the study on 55 nurses working in its ICUs. They compared
March 21 marked World Down Syndrome Day. In order to improve public awareness of Down syndrome, a chromosomal abnormality disease, the UN General Assembly declared this day in Cecember 2011. Figures 3 and 21 reflect the fact that Down syndrome is caused by having three copies of chromosome 21.Just l
Researchers from Ajou University Medical Center (AUMC) said they have performed the “world's first” single-cell transcriptome profiling of head and neck cancers at different stages of progression and identified a novel pathogenesis of head and neck cancer.Unlike conventional genomic analysis, single
Myongji Hospital said it plans to provide free health checkups to migrant women living in Goyang and Paju, Gyeonggi Province.According to the hospital, 31 women from Mongolia, Cambodia, Ghana, Vietnam, Thailand, and Myanmar participated in the free health checkup screening on Saturday.The hospital p
Korean parents who raised their daughter for more than 40 years without realizing that their child had been switched at birth in a maternity ward of an obstetrics and gynecology hospital will receive compensation.The Seoul Western District Court recently ruled in favor of the plaintiffs in a lawsuit
Myongji Hospital said it conducted a group medical training for 11 Vietnamese physicians from March 13-19.Led by Thai Binh Provincial General Hospital Deputy Director Nguyen Thi Thanh Trung, the group consisted of doctors from cardiology, gastroenterology, neurosurgery, orthopedics, radiology, and p
A male professor of pulmonary and critical care at Asan Medical Center (AMC), one of Korea’s top tertiary hospitals, has been accused of sexually molesting more than 10 female hospital staffers including residents and nurses, Joongang Ilbo first reported on Friday. The hospital did not disclose the
Moon Dong-eun, the main character of the Netflix drama “The Glory,” is actually around us. Seven out of 10 students who had mental health problems due to school violence experience aftereffects even after they become adults.The Korean Academy of School Mental Health said Friday that it conducted a s
Korean researchers said they have discovered a method to treat cancers that do not respond to existing anticancer drugs. The research team, led by Professors Cheong Jae-ho and Park Ki-cheong at the Department of Surgery, Systems Cancer Biology & Biomarker Research Lab, Yonsei University College of M
Air pollutants have been confirmed to increase the risk of Alzheimer's dementia.A joint research team said Thursday that air pollutants, including fine dust, reduce the thickness of the cerebral cortex, increasing the risk of Alzheimer's.Professors Cho Jae-rim and Kim Chang-soo of Yonsei University
The department of nuclear medicine is an unfamiliar field, even within the medical community. The only time the department made headlines was at the end or beginning of every year when medical colleges announced the application status of would-be specialists, like “Nuclear medicine hits rock bottom,
Some students and parents become especially nervous in March when a new school year begins. They are type 1 diabetic children and their mothers and fathers.Type 1 diabetes is often called “children’s diabetes” because many patients are children and adolescents.According to a study by Professor Kim H
Researchers from Kangbuk Samsung Hospital and Sungkyunkwan University said they have developed an algorithm to measure central nervous system (CNS) dysfunction in patients with Parkinson's disease through fundus images, "for the first time in the world." Since the retina of the eye allows doctors to
Following the release of the Netflix documentary "In the Name of God: A Holy Betrayal" and a growing public outcry against Jesus Morning Star (JMS) and its leader Jeong Myeong-seok, some doctors have expressed concerns about the possible impact on their business."In the Name of God: A Holy Betrayal"
Researchers at Asan Medical Center (AMC) researchers have recently demonstrated a key factor that could open up the possibility of developing a treatment for intractable asthma using stem cells.Asthma is a respiratory disease characterized by recurrent narrowing of the bronchi due to allergic inflam
Instead of maintaining high-intensity statin to prevent secondary complications in atherosclerotic cardiovascular diseases, controlling statin intensity according to LDL-cholesterol treatment targets can produce similar treatment effects, Korean researchers said.A research team led by three Severanc
Lou Gehrig’s disease, frequently occurring among those aged 50 or more, is often confused with Parkinson’s disease. The accurate name of this rare disease is amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) but it is commonly called Lou Gehrig’s disease after a famous baseball player, Lou Gehrig, of the New York
One of Korea’s most famous and expensive postpartum centers in Gangnam-gu, Seoul, has reportedly seen a major respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) outbreak.RSV infection is an acute respiratory infection.While the infection barely affects healthy adults, it can cause lower respiratory tract infections
Daewoong Pharmaceutical will sell about 427,000 of its shares to its parent company, Daewoong Co., to secure a research and development fund and invest it in future growth, the company said Wednesday.It explained that the disposal of treasury stocks would give the company additional liquidity of 50