The Supreme Court sentenced a jail term to the operator of “Anaki,” the Korean abbreviation of the now-defunct online community that advocated extremely naturalistic childcare and sold unauthorized herbal medicines. The court ordered two and a half years in prison, three years of probation, and a fine of 30 million won ($25,224) to Oriental medicine practitioner Kim Hyo-jin, who was indicted f
Four students at Daejeon University’s College of Oriental Medicine sexually molested female students and professors on a mobile group chat, according to a Facebook page.The anonymous Facebook bulletin board of Daejeon University on Friday posted an entry with the title, “I am accusing a verbal sexual violence case in a Kakao Talk group chat room that attacked senior and junior students, fellow
Dentists in the Asia-Pacific region have gathered in Seoul to exchange their latest academic knowledge and enhance networking.The Korean Dental Association (KDA) said the 41st general meeting of the Asia-Pacific Dental Congress (APDC), the 54th KDA Scientific Congress and the 16th Seoul International Dental Exhibition (SIDEX 2019) are taking place at COEX, southern Seoul, from Wednesday throug
The Constitutional Court on Thursday ruled that the provisions governing the punishment of a doctor who conducted a surgical abortion with the consent of a woman and the woman who received the abortion are inconsistent with the constitution.The term “inconsistent with the constitution” is the decision that nullifies the law as virtually unconstitutional but allows it to exist temporarily until
Physicians who run their clinics went furious with MSD Korea after learning that the company collected doctors’ conversations at product briefing sessions through its “Self-Assurance” monitoring program. Earlier, Korea Biomedical Review and its sister paper The Korean Doctors’ Weekly published an article saying the company recorded all the talks of physicians in detail.The Korean unit of t
Inje University Seoul Paik Hospital is taking steps to give up its status as a teaching hospital to reduce costs, sources said.According to the association of medical interns and residents at the hospital, Inje Medical Foundation’s board of directors and the hospital’s executives have been operating a task force to improve the hospital’s finance for several months.The task force was mullin
Male students at the nursing department of a national university have sexually molested female students and professors in a mobile group chat, an online petition revealed.The petition on the site of Cheong Wa Dae claimed that the male nursing students should be banned from getting a nursing license because they sexually harassed female students and professors on a KakaoTalk messenger.
The medical community has expressed an outcry over the police’s recent raid on a plastic surgery clinic amid a probe into allegations that Hotel Shilla CEO Lee Boo-jin had regularly taken propofol for non-medical purposes at the clinic. She is the daughter of Lee Kun-hee, the billionaire chairman of Samsung Electronics.Physicians protested that the police took over the clinic without a search
A Seoul court acquitted medical staffs at Ewha Womans University Hospital of criminal charges over the deaths of four newborns by bacterial infection at the hospital in December 2017.The Seoul Southern District Court said on Thursday it found not guilty for four physicians and three nurses at the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) who were indicted on charges of professional negligence over t
The Korean Society of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition announced a clinical practice guideline for the treatment of pediatric obesity, for the first time in Asia.The prevalence of childhood obesity is surging not only in Korea but around the globe. Lifestyle changes into a high-calorie diet, sedentary lifestyle and decreased physical activity pushed up the prevalence of pe
Physical abnormalities caused by metabolic syndrome raised the prevalence of prostate cancer, a local study showed. Metabolic syndrome refers to a set of metabolic conditions that lead to heart disease. Such conditions include insulin resistance, hypertension, abnormal cholesterol, and high clotting risk.A research team led by Professors Yoo Sang-jun and Jeong Hyeon at Urology Department of Se
The Korean Medical Association said it would investigate to identify which KMA member physicians provided lectures for students of Oriental medical schools or Oriental medicine practitioners.The KMA sent a letter to medical societies, clinics, and medical schools to notify the survey.“Oriental medicine is increasingly invading our sector, with more Oriental medicine practitioners trying to
The Korean physicians’ group has been reelected as a regional council member of the World Medical Association (WMA).The Korean Medical Association (KMA) said it won the membership by winning 37,710 votes in the 2019-2020 WMA regional council membership election in the Asia Pacific region.Conducted via email votes, doctors’ associations from Taiwan (33,926 votes), Australia (24,455), and Ma
In less than a month after a mentally ill patient stabbed a psychiatrist to death, another patient stroke a knife against a doctor at a hospital in Seoul.Seoul’s Seobu Police Station said it arrested a male patient, 57, for injuring a physician at a hospital in Eunpyeong-gu in northwestern Seoul, Thursday.According to the police, the attacker wielded a knife against the psychiatrist at the
Experts are raising concerns that the Korean government’s epidemic prevention system might have been ineffective, as fears over the measles outbreak are spreading across the country.The Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC) is not disclosing epidemiological investigation data, making it more difficult to identify the exact cause of the outbreak, they said.KCDC said the me
A local study raised the possibility that physicians can pick and choose the right medicine for schizophrenia patients by predicting their antipsychotic responsiveness.Professor Kim Eui-tae at Neuropsychiatry Department of Seoul National University Bundang Hospital and Professor Kwon Jun-soo at Neuropsychiatry Department of Seoul National University said their study was published on the latest
Just four days before a patient killed psychiatrist Lim Se-won at a hospital in Seoul, a patient threatened to murder a trainee physician at Gyeongsang National University Hospital (GNUH) in Jinju, South Gyeongsang Province.The hospital lost contact with the trainee doctor, and he has not come to work since the incidence, an official at GNUH said.According to the hospital, the incident occ
After a patient died at a clinic in Incheon after getting an IV injection last year, the health authorities have found bacteria in the clinic matched those in the blood of the deceased in an epidemiological investigation.Police have booked the medical staffs who treated the patient for allegedly neglecting hygiene of medical devices and the clinic which led to the death of the patient.Inch
A patient’s delusional disorder caused the patient to kill a psychiatrist at Kangbuk Samsung Hospital, police have concluded.The Jongno Police Station in Seoul on Wednesday announced the results of the investigation on the suspect. “During the probe, the suspect repeated incomprehensible statements. After analyzing his past medical records, we have concluded that his delusions appear to ha
Hospitals are increasingly guarding up against violence after a mentally ill patient stabbed a psychiatrist to death at Kangbuk Samsung Hospital.Hospitals are either providing security gears to security guards or reviewing to install a security checkpoint at the entrance and an evacuation space.Seoul National University Hospital (SNUH) said it has reinforced hospital security to prepar