A debate took place on Tuesday whether the “advantage” of non-face-to-face treatment that patients receive treatment whenever and wherever they want could be accepted from the aspect of patient safety and medical ethics.Two groups of opinions clashed with each other, as one group said that the medic
A recent study showed that the more interactions physicians have with patients, the greater their emotional labor.Kim Jin-sook, a researcher at the Medical Policy Research Institute under the Korea Medical Association (KMA), made this and other points in “A study on the emotional labor of Korean phy
A medical institution received outstanding results in all three patient experience evaluations. It’s Inha University Hospital.Inha University Hospital’s grades went up as the evaluation continued, and the hospital rose to “first place” in the third patient experience assessment conducted by the Heal
Researchers at St. Mary's Hospital have developed Quick Brain Volumetry (QbraVo), an automatic imaging program that can analyze brain volume using MRI, and a new imaging index that can diagnose early Alzheimer's disease (AD) and mild cognitive impairment.Changes in brain volume usually occur early i
The cognitive function such as memory and recall abilities among the Korean elderly declined much more during the Covid-19 pandemic than before the pandemic, even though they did not contract the virus, a study showed.The research team, led by Professor Won Chang-won at the Family Medicine Departmen
Artificial intelligence (AI) integrated solutions that can be used through the entire cycle of diagnosing, treating, and managing prognosis for children with rare diseases will be developed.With the infrastructure for treating rare diseases concentrated in the Seoul metro region, provincial children
As Covid-19 has continued for years, many domestic medical institutions are dedicating themselves to responding to the pandemic. Myongji Hospital is also one of the institutions that have been actively responding to Covid-19 since the epidemic’s outbreak.One of the common problems facing medical ins
A joint team of Korean researchers discovered that clonal hematopoiesis of indeterminate potential (CHIP), a genetic mutation, was the risk factor for severe Covid-19 patients without underlying diseases. They said they found the molecular mechanisms for the excessive inflammatory response in such C
A research team at Korea University College of Medicine has developed a wireless chip and smartphone app that can precisely administer drugs to the brains of mice, control their behavior, and monitor brain signals in real-time.The team, led by Professor Cho Il-joo of the Department of Medical Scienc
Following the government’s full lifting of the outdoor mask mandate on Monday, a provincial doctors’ group called for the health authorities to also stop the obligation to wear a mask indoors.It pointed out that the government has few good reasons to mandate the wearing of face masks indoors not lea
The severity of pregnant women infected by Covid-19 does not have a significant impact on the prognosis of newborns, according to a study.The research team at Korea University Anam Hospital released the result of its study, “Maternal and Neonatal Outcomes in Pregnant Women with Coronavirus Disease 2
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