Parents in Korea and other Asian countries are unusually concerned about their children's height. That is partly because Asians tend to be shorter than people in the West. Still, this interest in height has given rise to the academic term "heightism" in sociology, referring to social prejudice and d
Samsung Medical Center (SMC) came under fire after requiring an “obedience pledge” from public health doctors who were newly deployed to fill in the void of striking trainee physicians.Recently, SMC issued “service commitment and consent forms” to the newly deployed public health doctors.The consent
If you're in your 20s or 30s and have enlarged myocardium and proteinuria, there's a condition you should be concerned about -- Fabry disease, a rare genetic disorder.In particular, if you have a constitution that seldom sweats and gets hot if you exercise even a little in the sun, or if you have “a
Seoul National University Bundang Hospital (SNUBH) said it would receive the Presidential Commendation for Global Healthcare Achievement in the 14th Global Healthcare & Medical Tourism held at COEX, southern Seoul, from Thursday.The hospital said the presidential citation is related to the global he
Korean trainee doctors, including interns and residents, have appealed to the International Labor Organization (ILO) for assistance in addressing the Seoul government's directive to resume operations.In a news release distributed on Wednesday, the Korean Intern Resident Association (KIRA) said it ha
A collaborative research team from Severance Hospital and the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) has uncovered mechanisms that contribute to the early development of resistance to chemotherapy in pancreatic cancer treatment.Despite advances in the survival rates of other intr
The government has begun a full-scale financial injection to fill the vacancies left by interns and residents who resigned en masse to protest against the government’s increase in medical school enrollment quota.Starting in March, for instance, the government will pay a monthly subsidy of 18 million
Korean medical professors who have announced their resignations, urging dialogue with the government, have issued a stark warning of an impending healthcare crisis in the country. They highlight that hospitals, which have been reducing their services for nearly a month following the departure of tra
A joint research team of Seoul National University Bundang Hospital (SNUBH) and Sung Kyun Kwan University (SKKU)-Samsung Medical Center (SMC) has released the results of a genetic study on the relationship between creativity and mental disorders.Professor Myung Woo-jae at the Department of Neuropsyc
Professors from Seoul National University (SNU) College of Medicine have proposed forming a consultative body to resolve the ongoing medical turmoil, which would include the government, the medical community, lawmakers, medical residents, and civic groups representing the public.They also suggested
The government's push to increase the medical school enrollment quota has led to the departure of most medical residents from training hospitals, forcing various medical societies to cancel annual workshops for new interns and residents.Kim Seung-hyun, president of the Korean Neurological Associatio
The government's deployment of public health doctors and military surgeons to fill healthcare gaps in teaching hospitals has sparked confusion and dissatisfaction from day one.Deployed public health and military doctors are upset because they are being treated poorly, including housing, and are forc
A team of researchers from Yonsei University, Severance Hospital, and Gangnam Severance Hospital has developed a high-safety, liquid metal-based soft artificial retina.This innovative technology promises to restore vision to patients blinded by retinal diseases, including retinitis pigmentosa and ma
The National Cancer Center (NCC) said it has discovered a biomarker that can distinguish pancreatic cancer patients from healthy individuals "with 100 percent accuracy" and has licensed out the biomarker to New Cancer Cure Bio.The biomarkers X-100 and X-99 have shown the capability to accurately dif
The prevalence of heart failure in Korea is steadily rising due to population aging.According to Factsheet 2022, published by the Korean Society of Heart Failure, the prevalence rate in Korea increased significantly from 0.77 percent in 2002 to 2.58 percent in 2020. The number of hospitalizations fo
Professors at the University of Ulsan College of Medicine, including those at Asan Medical Center (AMC) in Seoul, have agreed to submit their resignations in protest against the government's decision to suspend the licenses of resigned interns and residents.The emergency committee of the University
The government allowed "physician assistant" (PA) nurses to practice more at healthcare sites from Friday, issuing supplementary guidelines on the scope of practice for nurses amid ongoing walkouts by trainee doctors and ensuing medical disruptions.The move came as neither trainee doctors nor the go
A research team -- led by Professor Kim Beom-joon of the Neurology Department at Seoul National University Bundang Hospital (SNUBH), together with Professor Kang Dong-Wan from the Neurology Department of the Gyeonggi Provincial Medical Center Icheon Hospital -- has received the "2024 Paul Dudley Whi
A team of researchers led by Professor Kim Sung-won of the Catholic University of Korea College of Medicine has successfully implanted the "world's first" customized and 3D-bioprinted artificial trachea based on another person's adult stem cells for a patient with an intractable tracheal defect, Cat
University hospitals are grappling with financial difficulties amid prolonged walkouts by trainee doctors, medical sources said.These hospitals have cut back on medical services due to the exodus of interns and residents. As the collective action enters the third week, declining revenue is leading t