The police have indicted a 40-year-old American on charges of getting an illegal prescription for opioid painkillers and selling them on the internet and referred the case to the prosecution.According to the Nowon Police Station, the suspect had visited Korea frequently since 2008 and settled in the country in 2010 with an E2 (teaching) visa to teach English. Afterward, he married a Korean wom
Mental health experts and policymakers around the world will visit Korea to discuss human rights conditions of people with mental disorders and treatments.The World Health Organization and Yongin Mental Hospital WHO Collaborating Center will jointly hold the “WHO QualityRights International Workshop on Best Practices of Community-based Mental Health Services” at Incheon Grand Hyatt Hotel from
A professor has unveiled a new medical record that confirmed Japan’s brutal suppression of Korean resistance during the March 1 Independence Movement in 1919.Hong Chang-hee, a professor at urology department at Yonsei University College of Medicine, announced that some of the independence activists who were flogged by the Japanese military for joining the March 1 demonstrations received skin g
On Friday this week, the nation marks the 100th anniversary of the March 1 Independence Movement, a national uprising that occurred on March 1, 1919, to fight against the Japanese colonial rule.As various sectors reexamine independence activists’ contribution to the movement, the nursing community also commemorated the late independence fighter nurses at a recent gathering. The Korean Nurs
The Korean Society of Cardiometabolic Syndrome (KSCMS), which spun off from the Korean Society of Cardiology as of Jan. 1, held its first official event, “2nd Asia-Pacific CardioMetabolic Syndrome CONGRESS” (APCMS 2019) at a hotel in Seoul, Friday.During the international forum, the society announced its plans to become international at a news conference. KSCMS President Koh Kwa
She had a solid reason to live as a doctor in the United States: She wanted to study disaster medicine the right way. She made up her mind and plans back when she was a medical student. She chose emergency medicine as her major early on. And she thought it would be better to study in the U.S. than in Korea to grab more opportunities in a larger world.A decade has passed, and she is now working
People are living in many networks. They make friends and communicate them through social networking sites. Some have scores of friends in their networks but others, hundreds, and even thousands.A network is not only a social term but a biomedical term. As little as genes, proteins, and cells to as big as diseases, there are networks in many different areas of biology. Network medicine refers
A male medical student, who recorded a showering scene of a female student using a hidden camera two years ago, was expected to be back to school this year after finishing military service, a source said.Some other suspected that the school in Busan replaced the punishment with the offender’s serving the military for around two years, which is mandatory for all non-disabled Korean men aged 18
Dr. Hong Waun-ki, former president of American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) and special advisor to Yonsei University, died on Wednesday. He was 76.Hong, born in South Korea in 1942, earned his medical degree from Yonsei University School of Medicine in 1967 and served in the Korean Air Force as a flight surgeon during the Vietnam War.After completing his military service, he
In this era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, there is much talk about artificial intelligence (AI). Equally widespread concern about AI, its role in society, and the implication of the society using AI.In an interview with Korea Biomedical Review, Jarom Britton, regional attorney in Microsoft’s Health, Education and Public Sector in Asia, claims that Microsoft doesn’t have all the answers
There is a doctor who has visited North Korea several dozen times since 1989. He also was behind the establishment of public health infrastructure in the North, including the construction of the Third Pyongyang Hospital in 1995 and the Care Fluid Factory in 2005. Lee Il-yung, co-president of the Korean Sharing Movement, is the doctor. After graduating Yonsei University College of Medicine in 1
The U Pharmaceutical, where employees are young enough to have fun, is a playful company, encouraging workers to “treat work as play.” Such a spirit might go against the “solemn” nature of the medical community, but the company has been successfully performing since its foundation in 2013. Its annual revenue spiked to 25 billion won ($22.5 million) in 2017 from 6 billion won in 2014. The n
With the introduction of new technologies, healthcare has evolved to provide patients with better surgery options and prolonged life expectancy. Dr. Paul Barach, an eminent patient-safety expert and senior advisor to the dean at Jefferson College of Population Health, believes there is still more room for improvement regarding patient safety.“Patient safety is a domain of inquir
More than 7,000 physicians protested on Sunday a court’s sentencing of jail terms on three doctors for misdiagnosing and causing the death of a child. They demanded the government build a safer environment to practice medicine.The Korea Medical Association held a rally, titled “Setting Right the Korean Healthcare,” in front of the Deoksu Palace, central Seoul. Doctors criticized
A nursing college has coerced students to exercise synchronized movements for a Nightingale Pledge ceremony and micromanaging their outfit and hairstyle, an online community revealed.Nursing schools hold the Nightingale Pledge event for college graduates before they move on to clinical practice. At the event, students vow to keep nurses’ ethics and principles, wearing nurse dress uniforms and
An article on an online community of nurses revealed that a college in the Seoul metropolitan area forced nursing students to practice enema themselves as part of training. The writer of the article is presumed to be one of the nursing students.According to the revelation, the students had to draw lots to choose who will become the subject of enema training. The whistleblower said the coercive
North Korean defectors living in South Korea have low levels of influenza vaccination due to poor health literacy, despite having fewer language barriers than other immigrants, a research paper showed. The research team led by Park Sang-min, a professor of family medicine at Seoul National University Hospital, said on Wednesday that they published the study results on the latest iss
Even before the medical community could recover from the shocking incidence of a drunken patient attacking a doctor in an emergency room in Iksan, North Jeolla Province, physicians had suffered a series of assaults every day recently.In Jeonju, North Jeolla Province, a drunkard kicked a rescue worker and a nurse at a hospital. In Gumi, North Gyeongsang Province, an intoxicated university stude
A North Korean defector and a physician said the North’s poor test environment is the most serious problem that makes it difficult to diagnose a disease accurately.Choi Jeong-hoon, who fled fromd the North in 2011 after working as a medical doctor, spoke on the North’s status of infectious diseases diagnosis at a symposium, hosted by the Korean Society of Infectious Diseases at the Korea Chamb
The medical community was enraged over a recent assault on an emergency room (ER) physician in Iksan, North Jeolla Province, not merely because of the violent act. Doctors expressed more anger after learning that the police did not respond to the offender seriously.The incident has many precedents. Whenever a drunkard, a patient, or a guardian attacked a medical worker, the authorities ended u
