The recent death of a nurse at Asan Medical Center (AMC) who suffered a cerebral hemorrhage while on duty is rocking the medical community to the core. AMC is regarded as one of the best among Korea’s five largest hospitals.Health industry officials are wondering why AMC with top medical facilities
Almost half of 125 Korean clinics and hospitals have expanded their operations in China so far, and more than a third of them were in the dermatology and plastic surgery fields, a report showed.The Korea Health Industry Development Institute (KHIDI) released a report on Korean medical institutions’
Patients with nervous system disorders such as stroke and cerebral hemorrhage need intensive treatment in the “golden hour.” To do so, hospitals need to increase the number of neurointensivists within the intensive care units (ICUs), an expert said.More than half of the patients in ICUs at tertiary
In the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, violence against healthcare professionals increased by 58 percent worldwide, a report showed.Verbal and physical attacks on physicians, nurses, and medical service workers occurred in all regions of the world. Emergency care and operating rooms were also exposed
A study has found that breast cancer surgery using robots reduces complications and preserves the shape of the breast as much as possible.Two researchers -- Professor Park Hyung-seok of Yonsei Cancer Center and Professor Lee Jee-a at Eulji Medical Center’s Breast Clinic – discovered that robotic sur
A joint research team from two institutions has disclosed a genetic mutation common in people with “super blood vessels,” clear blood vessels even if a person has many risk factors for atherosclerosis.Atherosclerotic cardiovascular diseases, such as myocardial infarction and angina pectoris, narrow
The Catholic University of Korea Catholic Medical Center (CMC) said it has set about developing a large-scale AI medical image model in collaboration with Kakao Brain, an AI research institute.CMC and Kakao Brain signed a memorandum of understanding last Wednesday.The center said there are high expe
A multi-institution study team, including researchers led by Professor Choi Byoung-wook of radiology at Severance Hospital, has developed and verified a method to standardize cardiac MRI measurements, which appear differently depending on filming equipment and method.It is important to diagnose feat
The number of patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), the most common type of liver cancer, has been steadily rising for the past five years, and nearly eight out of 10 HCC patients were male, government data showed.According to the National Health Insurance Service’s data on HCC care, the num
Myongji Medical Foundation held the inauguration ceremony of its new director, Hong Sung-hwa, at Myongji Hospital in Goyang, Gyeonggi Province, on Wednesday.Attending the ceremony were about 300 dignitaries from various walks of life, including Myongji Hospital Chairman Lee Wang-jun and President Ki
Korea has little chance of winning the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine because medical students have few opportunities to make scientific discoveries through research, on top of the government’s insufficient investment in basic medicine, a medical education expert said.He said medical colleges
Severance Hospital has introduced an early recovery program for people who receive an artificial knee joint surgery by reducing their pains and shortening the recovery period, the hospital said Friday.Doctors consider artificial knee joint surgery for severe degenerative knee arthritis patients. The
Next-generation ALK inhibitors such as Alecensa (alectinib) and Lorviqua (lorlatinib) showed high activity in relapsed and refractory anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK)-positive large B-cell lymphoma (LBCL), signaling their potential as a treatment option, a study said.No standard therapies exist for
Multicentric Castleman disease (MCD) is not cancer, but its prognosis is as poor as cancer.MCD is so rare and difficult to diagnose. As a result, many MCD patients get misdiagnosis and miss the right timing for treatment.Professor Jeon Young-woo of hematology at Yeouido St. Mary’s Hospital emphasize
Researchers at Life Center Chaum, a healthcare facility under CHA Network, and Bundang CHA Hospital have published a study on the natural killer (NK) cell activity in recurrent respiratory disease patients.NK cells are immune cells that represent the body's primary defense action. The cells can reco
Nurses’ kind words can improve satisfaction and reduce the anxiety of surgical patients, a study showed.A research team at Jesus University College of Nursing published the study titled “Nurses’ communication styles and the impact of anxiety and uncertainty of surgical patients on patient satisfacti
Korean doctors are 47.9-years-old on average and earn 230 million won ($176,245) a year, with nearly three out of 10 physicians working in the capital Seoul. These are the gist of a recent survey on the health and medical workforce released by the Ministry of Health and Welfare.The Korea Institute f
The Seoul National University Hospital (SNUH) said its research team has opened a way to raise bone marrow's success rate drastically.The team has discovered a special macrophage that allows mass-producing top hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) for the first time globally. “By making the most of this s
Researchers found a potential new treatment that maintains a therapeutic effect with reduced adverse reactions in HER2-positive breast cancer, which frequently relapsed and metastasized.A joint research team of Professors Park Yeon-hee and Kim Jee-hyun at the Department of Pathology and Translationa
Korean doctors are giving favorable reviews on Leclaza (lazertinib), the nation’s 31st novel drug for non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).Physicians shared the experience of prescribing Leclaza, which was released on the market a year ago, at a symposium hosted by Yuhan Corp., the drug developer, in