A research team at Bundang CHA Hospital has developed a treatment to inhibit the growth of head and neck cancer cells that show resistance against taxol, a typical anticancer drug.Head and neck cancer occurs in the head and neck region, comprising laryngeal, oral, and pharyngeal. While there are tre
Korea has been seeing new Covid-19 cases exceeding 5,000 almost every day since easing social distancing rules.What’s more worrisome is that the number of confirmed cases among patients on dialysis is spiking. As a result, dialysis patients have a 20-fold risk of Covid-19 mortality compared to gener
Researchers at Hallym University have found that taking a gastritis treatment for a month or more increases the risk of gastric cancer more than twice.They made the discovery through an analysis code that can derive research results without clinical trials. The code is a device that analyzes the ass
A patient group vehemently opposed celebrity advertising in medical services and urged the medical, dental, and Oriental medicine community to stop using celebrities in their marketing strategies.“Some plastic surgery clinics tried to make celebrities appear in their advertisements recently,” the Ko
Severance Hospital said Thursday that its researchers have analyzed the cause of endoscopic vacuum therapy (EVT) failure for the first time.According to the hospital, perforations and fistulas in the upper gastrointestinal tract, such as the esophagus, stomach, and duodenum, are complications of sur
The government has mandated at-home treatment as a default for all Covid-19 patients, but the scheme will be successful only when the patient transfer and critical care functions well, the nation’s largest doctors’ group said.On Wednesday, the Central Disaster Safety and Countermeasure Headquarters
Researchers at the Institute for Basic Science (IBS) and Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) have developed Opto-vTrap, an optogenetic tech freely controls brain functions and behaviors.The team, led by Professor Lee Chang-jun of the Center for Cognitive and Sociality at IBS a
The Korean medical community is gradually embracing telemedicine as an “irreversible trend,” doctors said.Physicians used to go on a strike to oppose the government’s plan to expand telehealth, but voices are growing to come up with plans to prepare for it wisely.The softened stance of the doctors s
It is well known that heavy drinking raises the chance of cancer. How about drinking a little bit of alcohol every day, then?A recent study showed that frequent drinking was a more important risk factor for gastrointestinal (GI) cancer than alcohol consumed per occasion.The research team, led by Pro
Researchers at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) have developed a cancer cell reprogramming technology that restores malignant breast cancer cells to a treatable state.The team, led by Professor Cho Kwang-Hyun of the Department of Bio and Brain Engineering, evaluated the
Researchers at Severance Hospital have confirmed that using an extensive frontal focused ultrasound to open the blood-brain barrier (BBB) of a patient can increase the efficacy of Alzheimer's disease treatment.The team, led by Professors Chang Jin-woo of the Department of Neurosurgery and Ye Byoung-
Using antibiotics could increase the risk of diabetes by up to 16 percent, a study showed. Not only the duration but the number of classes of antibiotics affected the risk.The research team, led by professor Park Sang-min of family medicine at the Seoul National University Hospital, said Monday that
If hepatitis B patients have metabolic risk factors such as obesity and hypertension, they have a higher possibility of developing liver cancer and mortality, a study showed.The research team, led by professor Lee June-young of the Biostatistics Department at Korea University College of Medicine, re
An aide to Chun Doo-hwan, the former military dictator who died on Tuesday, claimed that adverse reactions to Covid-19 vaccination might have caused Chun’s death. Still, an infectious disease expert called his assertion “unreasonable.”In an interview with a local broadcaster on Tuesday, Chun’s forme
Researchers at Seoul National University Hospital (SNUH) have developed an artificial intelligence model that can sequentially predict lesion detection, differential diagnosis, and early gastric cancer invasion depth based on the flow of gastroscopy.Korea has one of the highest rates of gastric canc
A research team at the Korea Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology (KRIBB) has developed a system that accurately diagnoses breast cancer biomarkers in the blood by measuring exosome RNA using a fluorescent signal amplification probe.Exosomes are small lipid vesicles discharged from cells, posse
A research team at CHA University Ilsan Medical Center has identified a gene associated with recurrence in patients with stage 1 gastric cancer.Even in stage 1 gastric cancer that shows a relatively good prognosis, about 5 percent of patients experience recurrence. However, the characteristics of ga
Korean researchers have discovered a biomarker that can help diagnose early lung cancer with a simple blood test.Their study, which signaled the possibility of diagnosing lung cancer through “GCC2+ exosomes” in peripheral blood, drew international attention after being published in Cancers, a renown
Myongji Hospital in Goyang, north of Seoul, opened a support center on Tuesday to provide home treatment support for up to 2,000 mild or moderate Covid-19 patients a day.The support center is equipped with an advanced system for managing at-home treatment patients based on the management know-how, p
Aspirin use could raise the risk of heart failure by 26 percent in people with at least one of predisposing factors – smoking, obesity, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease, a study said.On Tuesday, ESC Heart Failure, a journal by the European Society of Cardio