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
A Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) research team succeeded in establishing an efficient bacterial detection platform through the combination of deep learning techniques and surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy.In developing the platform, the research team analyzed the SERS s
Medical societies criticized CVS Health, a U.S. retail pharmacy chain, for removing all but one direct oral anticoagulant (DOAC), Xarelto (rivaroxaban), from its formulary starting this year.The decision of CVS was solely based on cost-effectiveness, and it would hamper physicians’ medical decisions
Expanded indication of Novo Nordisk’s obesity treatment Saxenda (ingredient: liraglutide) will contribute to treating and managing obesity in pediatric patients, an expert said.Professor Rhie Young-jun of pediatrics at Korea University Ansan Hospital explained the importance of treating obese childr
“Psoriasis treatment aims to achieve ‘almost or completely clean skin (PASI 90/100).’ But, in addition to improving skin conditions, it is important to detect complications like psoriatic arthritis at an early stage through primary screening.”So said professor Choi Yong-beom of dermatology at Konkuk
A Seoul National University Bundang Hospital (SNUBH) research team has found that antibacterial treatment that removes Helicobactor pylori can improve glycated hemoglobin levels.Helicobacter pylori is a parasitic bacterium between the gastric mucosa and mucus and cause gastritis, functional dyspepsi
A Korean research team proposed a detailed classification method based on cancer stem cell RNA characteristics and customized, targeted therapy for intractable hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) that does not respond to existing treatments.The research team, led by professor Lee Sung-hwan at the Departm
With the quick spread of the Omicron variant straining the nation’s emergency care system, the health authorities should brace for a spike in the number of mild Covid-19 patients, an expert said.Professor Oh Myoung-don of infectious disease at the Seoul National University Hospital, who leads the na
Researchers at Seoul St.Mary’s Hospital have found that the risk of developing psoriasis increases when patients have metabolic syndrome.The team, led by Professor Lee Ji-yeon of the Department of Dermatology, concluded so after analyzing the National Health Insurance Service data on 5,644,324 adult
Researchers at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) have developed a computational antibody design and used it to develop a neutralizing antibody that exhibits excellent effects against all Covid-19 variants, including Omicron.SARS-CoV-2 virus, which causes Covid-19 infecti
What aftereffects bother people most who were infected by Covid-19 but cured of the disease?A research paper published in the latest issue of the Korean Journal of Internal Medicine offered some clues to this question. The author is Kim Yun-jeong, a professor of infectious disease at the Catholic Un
A joint research team has confirmed the therapeutic effects and side effects of carotid artery radiation embolization in single-module liver cancer of five centimeters or larger is similar to liver resection surgery.Liver cancer is the seventh most common cancer in Korea. According to the National C
MSD’s anti-PD-1 immunotherapy Keytruda (pembrolizumab) offered much more benefit than Takeda’s Adcetris (brentuximab vedotin) in progression-free survival and quality of life in relapsed/refractory classical Hodgkin lymphoma (cHL), a study showed.The latest issue of Blood Advances, published by the