The number of foreign patients who had a cosmetic operation in Korea has plummeted during the Covid-19 pandemic. Industry insiders advise plastic surgeons to develop a more positive marketing strategy to restore the attraction of foreign patients.According to a report on VAT refunds for foreign plas
With a “bill on assisted death with dignity” proposed, an expert pointed out that for patients’ death with dignity, the parties involved should strengthen palliative care instead of discussing physician-assisted suicides.Professor Lee Myung-ah of the Department of Oncology at Catholic University of
Myongji Hospital said it signed an agreement with Next&Bio to jointly establish an organoid bank at the New Horizon Healing Center of the hospital on Friday.Organoid Bank collects and stores tissue simulators, called "organoids," produced using patients' physical tissues. Patient-derived organoids,
A recent study said that the risk of developing shingles increases among adults 50 and older with the experience of infection by Covid-19.A research team led by Dr. Amit Bhavsar, director of clinical research and development at GSK, released its research results on the incidence rate of shingles aft
HiPex (Hospital Innovation and Patient Experience Conference), which brought up topics like “patient experience” and “service design” for the first time in Korea in 2014, will return this year as “HiPex 2022.”The conference, which breathed fresh air from 2014 to 2019, has since been suspended due to
Myongji Hospital said that it has partnered with Why Dots to co-develop the latter's dementia specialized robot, PIO, and produce cognitive intervention programs.PIO is a robot parrot that stimulates attachment and emotion in dementia patients through the process of taking care of the robot. Accordi
A study has shown that the death risk of people with non-alcoholic fatty liver is 67 percent higher than ordinary people. It also found that the death risk was exceptionally high if the patients were underweight.A joint research team – led by Professor Yu Soo-jong of the Seoul National University Ho
The Yonsei University Health System (YUHS) will introduce the heavy ion therapy, called a dream cancer treatment device, around next March and use it for treating cancer patients. YUHS will be the 16th institution worldwide to use the therapy, and Korea will be the only country that runs three ion a
A research team at Kyung Hee University Medical Center has discovered that tumor mutation burden (TMB) is a biomarker that can predict the targeted therapy response in epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR)-positive lung cancer patients.The team, led by Professors Lee Seung-hyeun of the Department
Korea’s university hospitals are winning global recognition for their expertise in five clinical fields -- endocrinology, orthopedics, pulmonology, urology, and neurology, according to a recent survey.U.S. magazine Newsweek has announced World’s Best Specialized Hospitals 2023 jointly with a global
Asan Medical Center (AMC), located in Seoul, said it ranked within the world’s top 10 hospitals in five specialties out of the total 11 specialties in Newsweek’s World’s Best Specialized Hospitals 2023.Specifically, AMC was the world’s No. 3 hospital in endocrinology, No. 4 in urology, No. 6 in gast
PARIS -- “Lung cancer treatment is developing day by day, but the domestic health insurance benefits and other treatment environments fall far short of supporting the development.”Professor Ahn Myung-joo of the Department of Hemato-oncology at Samsung Medical Center (SMC) said so on Sunday when aske
A joint research team, consisting of researchers from Yonsei University College of Medicine and Severance Hospital, has developed a therapeutic agent that increases the efficacy of glioblastoma (GBM) anticancer drugs by 136 percent.GBM is a cancer that occurs in nerve cells in the brain. The cancer
A research team at St. Mary's Hospital has discovered a biomarker that can predict the severity and recovery of dysphagia, or swalling difficulties, after a stroke.Dysphagia is a major cause of bacterial aspiration pneumonia as well as malnutrition and dehydration, affecting the overall recovery of
PARIS – A Korean expert has given a positive evaluation to the phase 3 clinical trial results of VEGFR2 Tigit Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitor (TKI), “rivoceranib,” which proved effective in the first-line treatment of liver cancer combined with the anti-PD-1 immuno-cancer drug, "camrelizumab."Rivoceranib
A research team at Ajou University School of Medicine said a decrease in mitochondrial matrix caseinolytic protease P (ClpP) plays an important role in the pathogenesis of nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) induced by a high-fat and high-fructose diet.ClpP regulates the protein balance in mitochond
Patients with amyloid-negative amnestic mild cognitive impairment (MCI) may be at risk of progressing to dementia even if they had subthreshold levels of amyloid deposition, a Korean study showed.The research team, led by Professor Kim Hyung-ji at the Department of Neurology of Euijeongbu Eulji Medi
Myongji Hospital said it started securing medical competitiveness in the post-Covid-19 era by installing new medical equipment worth about 30 billion won ($21.6 million).Starting with the Somatom Force, a dual 576 slice computed tomography (CT), on Tuesday, the hospital plans to introduce various me
The number of diabetes patients reportedly exceeded 6 million in 2020. Considering the pre-diabetic population amounts to about 15.83 million, more than 20 million Koreans suffer from diabetes or the risk of diabetes, according to the Korea Diabetes Association (KDA).On the other hand, only 9.7 perc
Korea is almost the only country that recorded an increase in excess deaths during the Omicron wave due to its problematic critical care system bent only on making makeshift responses, an expert pointed out.Professor Kim Young-sam of the Department of Pulmonology at Severance Hospital made these and