Researchers at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) have identified a low-frequency, magnetic field reactive nanoparticle that can decompose substances causing Alzheimer's disease.Magnetoelectric material has properties that combine magnetism and electricity and is a core m
Researchers at St. Mary's Hospital have discovered a new bifidobacterium by analyzing the intestinal flora of rheumatoid arthritis patients, confirming the bifidobacterium’s excellence in treating rheumatoid arthritis through animal trials.Rheumatoid arthritis is a chronic inflammatory autoimmune di
The turnover of Korean nurses is more than three times higher than the overall industry rate, according to a survey result released Thursday, the International Nurses Day.The National Union of Health and Medical Industry conducted an opinion poll on 27,270 nurses at 145 workplaces.According to its r
A research team at Myongji Hospital has proved that taking a low dose (5 mg) of tadalafil, an erectile dysfunction drug, effectively controls blood sugar.According to Myongji researchers, chronic hyperglycemia caused by insufficient insulin secretion or dysfunction, a characteristic of diabetes, is
Myongji Hospital's Sports Medicine Center said that it would hold the third Myongji Hospital Sports Medicine Symposium on Sunday. The hospital will hold the symposium online through YouTube, and only those who have registered in advance can participate.Under the theme of "History, Present and Future
A research team at CHA University Gangnam Women's Hospital has discovered a biomarker for the risk assessment of recurrent pregnancy loss (RPL) among Korean women.RPL refers to a case when a pregnant woman has two or more consecutive miscarriages before 20 weeks into her pregnancy.Many factors influ
Researchers at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) have elucidated the three-dimensional atomic structure of somatostatin, a hormone-regulating substance that inhibits hormone secretion through its receptor somatostatin receptor 2 complex (SSTR2).Somatostatin is a hormone
A research team at Ajou University Medical Center has suggested the possibility of regenerating damaged spinal nerves, which were untreatable until now.The research team, led by Professor Kim Byung-gon of the Department of Neuroscience and Neurology, injected a hydrogel and an arylsulfatase complex
Patients hospitalized for pneumonia after Covid-19 infection have a higher risk of developing new-onset dementia than other pneumonia patients unrelated to Covid-19, a study showed.A research team of professor Adnan I Qureshi at the University of Missouri in Columbia in the U.S. released the study i
As people have become more interested in genetic diseases, medical genetics have advanced in broader areas. However, the more genetic testing became advanced, the more social issues emerged.When genetic testing becomes more popular, people can have a blurred social awareness about the misuse and abu
A Severance Hospital research team has opened ways for customized cancer treatment by developing a method to analyze the functions of many tumor mutations at once.According to the hospital, the sequence of human genes has four bases, also referred to as a base sequence. While various researchers hav
Seoul National University Hospital and Seoul Medical University will start developing a portable hemodialysis device and filter together with HealthConnect, Synopex, and Bayada Home Health Care.Hemodialysis, which accounts for more than 80 percent of all renal replacement therapies, is a treatment t
Over 95 percent of the Korean medical community opposed telemedicine in 2014, but the proportion recently went down to about 65 percent, a survey showed.The Korean Medical Association’s (KMA) Healthcare Policy Research Institute conducted an online poll on 955 KMA-member physicians from March 14-16.
Researchers at Seoul National University Hospital have developed a simple method to predict the risk of heart failure in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.According to the hospital, people with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy need to take special care as it can lead to end-stage heart failure. H
A study showed that post-Covid-19 symptoms could persist for a year or longer after recovery.As there is no effective treatment for long Covid, after-effects of Covid-19 could become a new chronic disease.The research team at the Luxembourg Institute of Health analyzed the health status of 289 Covid
Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) largely negated the effect of clodronate, the first-generation bisphosphonate (BP) to treat osteoporosis in adults, and NSAIDs’ interactions with next-generation osteoporosis drugs should be urgently investigated, a study said.On Wednesday, the Journal o
The World Health Organization strongly recommended using Pfizer’s Covid-19 pill Paxlovid for patients with mild Covid-19 infection who are still at a high risk of hospitalization.The WHO also gave a conditional recommendation to remdesivir for the same group of patients with mild Covid-19. Previousl
The number of obese patients has doubled in the past five years, and related medical expenses increased by more than 30 times.According to Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service (HIRA), the number of malnourished patients totaled 335,441 last year, up 123.9 percent from 2017, while that of f
Precision radiation therapy could raise the treatment rate of metastatic cancer patients carrying mutated genes, Korean researchers said in a study.The research team analyzed radiation treatment responses to ATM/BRCA mutation genes of 66 patients (91 lesions) who received radiation at Yonsei Cancer
Inflammatory levels are the key to deciding the long-term prognosis of patients who underwent coronary stenting, a study showed. In particular, it said that Korean patients who received the coronary intervention had considerably low inflammatory levels compared to Western patients, which were correl