“In the not-too-distant future, there will be a cloud-based general hospital that operates beyond borders. Medical education, research, and clinical trials will take place in this space. This seems to be the future of healthcare.”Jheon Sang-hoon, a professor of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery at
When treating advanced renal cell carcinoma (RCC) patients with an immune checkpoint inhibitor (ICI) and a vascular endothelial growth factor receptor (VEGFR) inhibitor, physicians should monitor patients with high baseline troponin T levels more closely for major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE
The 37th Korea International Medical and Hospital Equipment Show (KIMES 2022) opened at the COEX in southern Seoul on Thursday.Co-organized by the Korea Medical Devices Industrial Cooperation Association (KMDICA), Korea Medical Industry Association (KMDIA), and Korea E&EX, the annual event aims to p
In the nursing community, where female nurses are still dominant, male nurses have been gradually increasing.However, gender discrimination against male nurses persists, a recent survey showed.The Korean Man-nurses Association (KMA) released the survey results conducted on 237 male nurses last year.
Santen Pharm Korea’s preservative-free glaucoma treatments Taflotan-S Eye Drops (tafluprost) and Cosopt-S Eye Drops (dorzolamide hydrochloride/timolol maleate) improved the ocular surface disease (OSD) and quality of life significantly, compared to preservative-containing latanoprost, a study showed
Recently, CAR-T cell therapies such as BMS’ Breyanzi (lisocabtagene maraleucel) and Gilead’s Yescarta (axicabtagene ciloleucel) proved effective in the early treatment of relapsed/refractory diffuse large b-cell lymphoma (DLBCL), signaling a possibility to replace autologous hematopoietic stem cell
A Severance Hospital team has confirmed that BRCA (Breast Cancer) gene-mutated ovarian cancer patients who took poly ADP ribose polymerase (PARP) inhibitors experience reduced therapeutic efficacy when the disease recurs.An increasing number of patients receive maintenance treatment using PARP inhib
As the nation confirms more than 200,000 Covid-19 infections per day, Myongji Hospital has opened a rapid polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test center.According to the hospital, the test center, which started operation on Wednesday, will be open all year round from 8:30 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. from Monday
Clinicians complain that there is not enough Paxlovid, the Covid-19 treatment pill for patients with mild symptoms. However, the central government said the domestic supply of Paxlovid was not in shortage and that it would redistribute the supply more fairly among local governments.Developed by Pfiz
Medical societies in advanced nations recently recommended AstraZeneca’s EGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI) Tagrisso (ingredient: osimertinib) as postoperative adjuvant therapy for early lung cancer,And that means Korea should revise the related reimbursement criteria and change the diagnostic rou
A research team at St. Mary's Seoul Hospital has confirmed that an existing model that can predict nonfatal toxicities and survival in cancer patients has the same efficacy on elderly acute myeloid leukemia (AML) patients.AML is a geriatric hematologic cancer with an average age of onset between 65
A National Cancer Center research team has confirmed that secondary tumor reduction surgery can improve survival in recurrent ovarian cancer.There have been various opinions about the therapeutic effect of surgery in the treatment strategy for recurrent ovarian cancer, including targeted therapy, im
The mortality rate of dialysis patients infected with Covid-19 is 75 times higher than that of the general population, a medical report showed. The Korean Society of Nephrology (KSN)’s Covid-19 Response Task Force analyzed the prognosis of dialysis patients who received Covid-19 treatment at 206 med
The metaverse is a hot topic in the Korean medical community.In the wake of Covid-19’s outbreak, medical schools started developing VR-based education and training content. Doctors are increasingly discussing introducing telemedicine fully. Hospitals and healthcare businesses are working on metavers
The treatment environment for domestic patients with rare diseases is still poor, experts said. Thus, they emphasized that the government should improve the healthcare system to make better access to treatment and expand medical infrastructure.On Wednesday, the Korean Organization for Rare Diseases
If pediatric acute leukemia patients receive proper treatment before and after hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT), treatment outcomes with haploidentical related donors (HRD) can be as good as those with matched unrelated donors (MUD), a study showed.On Wednesday, the research team, led
Since the quarantine authorities switched from polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test to rapid antigen test (RAT), concerns have mounted in medical fields about the surge of Covid-19 infections due to “false-negative results.” Many people who test negative in self-test kits changed to positive results
Imagine medical students wearing surgical gowns and vinyl head coverings and holding virtual reality equipment instead of scalpels at an anatomy lab. That is what happens at the anatomy laboratory of Kyung Hee University College of Medicine, which has introduced a “hybrid anatomy class” for the firs
Myongji Hospital said Wednesday that it would transfer know-how on responding to infectious diseases to medical professionals from developing countries. The hospital’s Overseas Development Assistance (ODA) Business Corps held a ceremony to welcome foreign medical workers enrolling at the “Lee Jong-w
Two Korean people in their 30s reported inflammatory diseases after receiving mRNA Covid-19 vaccination, according to two separate medical reports by the Journal of Korean Medical Science (JKMS).A research team by Chonnam National University Medical School recently reported the first case of subacut