The Korea Institute of Materials Science (KIMS) said it has developed a strip-type urine sensor that can amplify metabolite light signals in urine and detect prostate and pancreatic cancer.The technology was developed by Professors Jung Ho-sang at KIMS, Roh Jun-suk at Pohang University of Science an
Despite stopping respiratory viruses such as Covid-19, disposable face masks can cause lung damage due to their main ingredient, a study found. Polypropylene (PP) is the main raw material of disposable masks and is a microplastic commonly encountered as disposable items in everyday life.Recent repor
Nurses working in general wards experience more stress related to life-prolonging care than those at intensive care units, a recent study showed.A research team at Chungnam National University College of Nursing published a study, “General hospital nurses’ perception about the nursing role in life-p
Suwon-based Lee Chun Tek Orthopedic Specialty Hospital announced that they have officially resumed services for foreign patients starting with a hip replacement surgery after a three-year service suspension due to the Covid-19 pandemic.The hip replacement surgery was performed on Igor Mishanov, a 39
Children usually do not get cancer. Of all cancers, pediatric cancers under the age of 14 account for only about 1 percent of all cancers. The most common cancer in children is leukemia. Leukemia takes up about 30 percent of all childhood cancers. Pediatric leukemia includes acute lymphoblastic leuk
The Seoul Metropolitan Government announced on Friday that it will operate emergency medical institutions, hospitals, clinics, and pharmacies so that citizens can use them if they are sick during the Lunar New Year holiday for the period from Jan. 21-24.A total of 67 emergency medical institutions,
The Korean Diabetes Association (KDA) said Thursday that it would change treatment guidelines by lowering the screening ages for diabetes from 40 to 35 for all adults and from 30 to 19 for adults with risk factors.KDA announced the guideline change at a New Year news conference but did not disclose
A dozen years have passed since platinum-based chemotherapy was used to treat bladder cancer. It means that although various innovative treatments are developed in other cancers, including target therapy and immunotherapy, there have been no therapies better than chemotherapy in n bladder cancer.How
Citizens Coalition for Economic Justice (CCEJ) has called for increasing the numbers of public medical schools and public hospitals, pointing out that the gap in medical resources among regions leads to the gap in amenable mortality rate.The Korea Medical Association refuted it on Tuesday, saying th
University hospitals in Korea were once notorious for their unkindness, authoritativeness, and lack of communication.However, hospitals have recently turned over a new leaf and started to focus on customer satisfaction. Severance Hospital, in particular, showed a stellar performance in terms of sati
The nation recorded excess deaths of about 4,000 due to Covid-19 in 2021. The death toll in 2021 increased by 3.8 percent on-year. The death toll from Covid-19 was the highest, and deaths from symptoms or syndromes not classified otherwise also rose by 29.3 percent compared to the previous year.The
Myongji Hospital said it has received the highest grade of Grade 1 in the first adequacy evaluation of dementia treatment.The Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service (HIRA) conducted its first dementia adequacy assessment on 889 medical institutions that treated new dementia patients from Oct
The higher the potassium (kalium) intake, the lower the mortality rate, a study said Wednesday. Potassium intake also had an effect on lowering the fatality rate due to cardiovascular disease, it added.Contrary to what is widely known or misperceived, sodium intake (natrium) does not influence death
A group of Korean researchers has found a clue to treating rheumatoid arthritis, an autoimmune disease.The researchers, led by Professor Park Seong-ho of the Life Science Department at Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), said Tuesday they have discovered a mechanism involved
Graft-versus-Host Disease (GvHD) happens when particular types of white blood cells (T cells) in the donated stem cells or bone marrow attack the patient’s body cells. It happens because the donated cells (the graft) see the patient’s body cells (the host) as foreign and attack them.Usually, steroid
Robots in hospitals are not very new. We already live in a world where robots can replace doctors’ hands to operate on and rehabilitate patients.With people going back to “normal” after the pandemic now, robots are contributing to increasing work efficiency in Korean hospitals.Korea Biomedical Revie
The Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) 's Center for Augmented Safety Systems with Intelligence, Sensing and Tracking has developed a technology that can reduce the existing polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test time to five minutes, while having the same diagnostic performance as the e
The government is tightening quarantine on Chinese arrivals, but it should work out a more sustainable plan, an expert said Thursday.According to the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA), the number of Chinese arrivals showed a positive test rate of 31.5 percent as of midnight Wednesda
Amid the medical community’s escalating attacks on the Supreme Court’s permission for Oriental doctors to use ultrasonic diagnostic devices, an Oriental doctors’ group called for them to “stop disparaging and distorting the top court’s ruling.”The Association of Korean Medicine (AMK) said Wednesday
A research team, consisting of researchers from the Institute for Basic Science (IBS) and Chungnam National University (CNU), identified the cause of the inaccuracy in the drug interaction prediction formula recommended by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).According to the team, led by Pro