The “polarization of application” for medical majors seems to have become a fixed phenomenon.In the medical interns’ application for majors for the first half of 2023, the competition continued to be fierce in the so-called popular departments of “derma(tology)-ophthal(mology)-plastic (surgery)” and
A 10-month-old girl from Uzbekistan who had congenital heart disease successfully underwent pediatric heart surgery at Seoul St. Mary's Hospital.Last month, Barotova Oyshaona, then a nine-month-old girl, visited Seoul St. Mary's Hospital after being selected as a recipient of the Ministry of Health
“There are many crazy doctors at our hospital’s Neurosurgery Department.”At a recent media event at Kangbuk Samsung Hospital, Director Shin Hyeon-cheol opened journalists’ ears with this remark. He added, “We have so many enthusiastic neurologists crazy about patients and surgery, even giving up the
A new auditor at Seoul National University Hospital (SNUH) was recently appointed about five months after running a wanted ad. However, the appointment of the new SNUH head, for whom a wanted ad was published on the same day, is still in the dark.SNUH is one of many national university hospitals (NU
A team of researchers at the Korean Advanced Institute of Science (KAIST) has succeeded in developing a new artificial muscle using graphene-liquid crystal composite fibers.The team, led by Professor Kim Sang-ouk of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, stressed that the artificial mu
SINGAPORE – By Kim Yun-mi/Korea Biomedical Review correspondent --“Anyone can think combining cytotoxic anticancer and immune-cancer drugs will increase immune activity. The difference occurs when we implement that hypothesis to know whether it has treatment effects in cancer patients. TOPAZ-1 clini
The bill on the so-called “doctor-assisted death with dignity” has been proposed, and 70 percent of Koreans reportedly support it.However, the medical community sees the issue entirely differently.Doctors point out that the right word is not “doctor-assisted death with dignity” but “doctor-assisted
The range of biomarkers to predict the metabolic syndrome that causes cardiovascular diseases and diabetes has expanded.A research team led by Professors Lee Yong-jae and Son Da-hye of the Family Medicine Department at Gangnam Severance Hospital released a review paper compiling recent studies on th
Mathematicians forecast that the number of new daily Covid-19 cases would decrease over the next two weeks. A team of mathematicians at the National Institute for Mathematical Sciences (NIMS) released a report on Thursday, saying that the size of Covid-19 infections is likely to shrink in Korea goin
A Korean research team has released a study result that confirmed the association between perivascular space dilation and cognitive decline in Alzheimer’s patients.The team analyzed the results of amyloid PET imaging and MRI brain imaging in Alzheimer's patients and published the results in the Octo
What measures prevent the departure of exhausted medical personnel due to the prolonged Covid-19 pandemic? Is there a way to make patients who left the hospital due to Covid-19 visit the hospital again?In answer to these questions, “trust” was cited as a virtue that hospitals in the post-Covid-19 er
Medical professionals and other healthcare experts agree on the need for Korea to introduce telemedicine but disagree on “how.”A recent survey by the National Evidence-based healthcare Collaborating Agency (NECA) confirmed it, with respondents agreeing on some issues but showing differences in other
About 30 percent of cancer-related content on social media, including YouTube, is misinformation not verified medically, a recent study showed.A research team, led by Professor Kwon Jeong-hye of the Hemato-oncology Department at Chungnam National University Sejong Hospital, said Monday that it publi
CGRP (calcitonin gene-related peptide) inhibitors, developed to prevent adult migraines, have recently been registered on the list of insurance beneficiaries, but their reimbursement standards are unrealistic, experts said.“The reimbursement criteria for CGRP inhibitors have been set by Western stan
Nearly 50 percent of Korean neurologists experienced migraine, more than eight times higher than the estimated migraine prevalence rate of 6.0 percent among the general population, a study showed. Korean Neurological Association (KNA) said Wednesday that two neurologists – Professor Kim Byeong-geon
As human life expectancy increases with the development of science and technology, concerns about “death with dignity” are deepening from the aspect of medical ethics.Death with dignity and the right to self-determination has recently emerged as major issue of medical ethics.Previously, the matter m
A research team at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) said it developed fabric-based wearable blue organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) that can treat jaundice in newborns.Hospitals currently treat neonatal jaundice in a variety of ways, including phototherapy, drug admi
Nurses and students at nursing schools gathered in front of the National Assembly on Monday, and executives at the Korean Nurses Association (KNA) shaved their heads to show determination.Some 50,000 nurses and nursing school students chanted slogans, such as, “The National Assembly must stop partis
A research team at Yonsei University College of Medicine said it identified the relationship between the expression level of proteins involved in the movement of substances within cells and the severity of atopic dermatitis.The research team, led by Professors Nam Ki-teak and Park Chang-wook at the
As the Covid-19 pandemic weakens to an endemic, the global medical tourism industry will restore its growth momentum from 2023, a report said.According to the report, the global medical tourism industry had grown rapidly since the turn of the 2000s but fell into a slump in 2020 due to the outbreak o