In introducing the caregiving system to nursing hospitals, Korea should draw a plan to secure foreign care workers in addition to standardizing local nurses’ qualifications to make up for the caregiving workforce shortage, a local institute said.Eson Medical Management Institute made these and other
The National Human Rights Commission of Korea (NHRCK) recommended expanding telemedicine in correctional facilities.Prisons need to hire more physicians to guarantee inmates’ access to healthcare, but if it is not feasible, they should instead broaden contactless medical services, the human rights w
The nation’s largest physician group expressed serious concerns over enacting the so-called “doctor-assisted death with dignity” law.The Korean Medical Association (KMA) said such a law would confuse insufficient social discussion and consensus. It could also increase the risk of allowing “legal sui
The nation’s largest physician organization is taking steps to establish telemedicine as its official policy.The Korean Medical Association (KMA) held a workshop in Busan over the weekend to discuss home treatment and telehealth and had a debate on contactless patient care.Kim Hong-sik, chairman of
The suicide of professor Koh won-jung at Samsung Medical Center, an authority in tuberculosis and non-tuberculous mycobacteria (NTM), sent a great shock to the medical community in 2019.In the same year, another doctor killed himself. He was a thoracic surgeon treating patients for nearly 19 years a
Recently, a man in his 70s assaulted a physician by wielding a sickle at an emergency room (ER) of a general hospital in Yongin, Gyeonggi Province.Enraged by continued violence against healthcare professionals, the medical community blamed the police’s lukewarm response and the law enforcement’s wea
The Korean government emphasized the importance of accumulating big data for cancer research, but its failure to support manpower and resources has made the task extremely slow, experts said.Such criticism came at an international symposium, “AI and Big Data in Cancer: from Knowledge to Action,” hos
Among cancer patients who use complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) outside of mainstream healthcare, 16 percent said they have taken fenbendazole, an anthelmintic used against parasites in animals, a study found.Professor Kim Jung-sun of hemato-oncology at the Chungnam National University Se
The medical community seems to be wary of the repercussion of the recent court ruling to reissue a license to a doctor who had his license revoked due to the abandonment of his patient’s body.The lenient verdict that has not considered the medical circles’ position on the case might trigger public c
Korea recorded the lowest cancer mortality rate despite the lowest health costs per capita among 22 high-income countries, a study showed.The research team at the Yale School of Medicine and Vassar College compared spending on cancer care with cancer mortality rates in 22 high-income countries and p
Genome Insight CEO Ju Young-seok received the Human Genome Organization’s (HUGO) Chen Award of Excellence.HUGO awards the Chen Award of Excellence annually to two young scientists who have extraordinary work or suggested a new treatment in human genomics.Ju, a professor at the Korea Advanced Institu
Enhanced online communication, prompted by the Covid-19 pandemic, will likely push Korean medical societies to be internationalized, an expert said.Lee Jong-min, director of international affairs at the Korean Academy of Medical Sciences (KAMS), emphasized the necessity of globalization of the KAMS’
Moon Song-myeon, who worked at a factory making mercury thermometers, died in July 1988. Moon was 17 at the time, and the cause of his death was mercury poisoning. Thirty-four years have passed, but Moon’s case is still considered a typical example of death from occupational diseases.However, the re
Many people recovering from Covid-19 complain about aftereffects, but there are no standardized diagnostic criteria or treatment guidelines, confusing clinical fields, according to medical workers.The larger the number of Covid-19 patients, the more the people suffering from long Covid, with some ex
A state-funded research organ has developed a “nasal mask” that can be sprayed. When sprayed on the nasal cavity, the new product reacts with oxygen to remove the virus from the mucosal epithelial cells.The Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) said Thursday that its technology-funded bus
You wake up in the morning, use the toilet, and the urine analysis shows that you need nutrition control and excessive sodium intake. This was a scene from the 2005 film “The Island.”People might think that such a thing could happen only in a movie, but it is happening now. Researchers have develope
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.
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
Upon opening the National Assembly’s extraordinary session this month, a war of nerves intensifies between nurses and other medical professionals, including doctors, over whether the nation should have a separate law for nurses.Recently, even international organizations representing the two conflict
The majority of the Korean medical community opposes telemedicine, but some doctors call for a change in mindset to embrace the digitization of health services.“A storm called metaverse is approaching us,” said Mun Seog-kyun, head of the research coordination office at the Korean Medical Association