Proponents of the medical school enrollment quota increase have maintained that Korea needs to lower doctors’ income to an optimal level by expanding the number of physicians and avoiding falling into a “medical school black hole.”The "medical school black hole" in Korea refers to a phenomenon where
Myongji Hospital has begun performing TAVI (transcatheter aortic valve implantation), one of the most difficult cardiovascular procedures.The hospital was certified as a TAVI provider by the Ministry of Health and Welfare last year and has since been performing TAVI procedures in earnest, with Profe
Nine-thousand-two-hundred-and-seventy-five trainee doctors have resigned at 100 major training hospitals nationwide, the Ministry of Health and Welfare said Thursday. Those who left their workplaces numbered 8,024.The ministry announced the result of its field checks on doctors’ collective action at
The government says it will consider using physician assistant (PA) nurses to fill the healthcare gap caused by the mass resignation of junior doctors, but most hospitals do not see it as a realistic option.That’s because PAs are already working in hospitals, but the legality of their practice is am
CAR-T (chimeric antigen receptor-T cell) therapy, often referred to as the dream cancer drug, is a treatment for patients with cancers for which there are currently no other options.What are the results of CAR-T treatment for cancer patients who are at a dead end, then?"At least, the current data sh
As trainee physicians at Korea’s five largest tertiary hospitals walked out en masse on Tuesday morning in protest to the government’s medical school quota increase, senior doctors in emergency medicine are taking on additional duties, hospitals said. This could lead them to suffer burnout, putting
As interns and residents are resigning en masse in protest to the government’s increase of medical school enrollment quota, the rivaling political parties have set about to persuade them, saying, “Let’s resolve it through dialogue.”On Monday, the main opposition Democratic Party of Korea (DPK) annou
The Korean government has compelled medical schools to submit the personal information of representatives of medical school students who have pledged to embark on a collective leave of absence this week, as revealed in a document obtained by Korea Biomedical Review. The Korean Medical Student Associ
The number of patients with “sudden deafness,” a condition in which a person suddenly loses the ability to hear sound for no particular reason, is increasing rapidly in Korea.According to data from the Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service (HIRA), the number of sudden deafness patients incr
A research team at Yongin Severance Hospital has demonstrated the effectiveness of ChatGPT, specifically the GPT-4 model, in accurately predicting cardiovascular diseases.GPT-4, the latest iteration of the ChatGPT series developed by OpenAI, has previously garnered attention for passing the United S
Interns and residents at Korea’s "Big Five" hospitals have decided to submit their resignations by Monday and stop working from Tuesday.Park Dan, head of the Korean Intern and Resident Association (KIRA), said the association came to this conclusion after discussions with representatives of the trai
Kim Joo-ah, 3, who underwent successful heart transplant surgery, was safely discharged from Severance Hospital on Feb. 8, according to the hospital.The Lunar New Year was a special holiday for Joo-ah's family, with the entire family gathering at her home to eat tteokguk, traditional sliced rice cak
A research team at the Catholic University of Korea College of Medicine has recently identified a protein called Nuclear Receptor Coactivator 6 (NCOA6) as a potential inducer of gouty arthritis in joint macrophages, the primary cells responsible for innate immunity.The team, led by Professor Kim Wan
A study by researchers at Seoul National University Bundang Hospital (SNUBH) showed that the use of digital healthcare among older adults is poor, with half of the participants unable to install related applications despite smartphone use.Digital healthcare technology, including a wide range of heal
“Cardiothoracic surgery is 19.57 to 1, and general surgery is 3.4 to 1.”Of course, this is not the case in Korea. These were the competition rates for medical specialties in the U.K. in 2022. Unlike Korea, “vital departments” like cardiothoracic surgery and general surgery are popular among doctors
Severance Hospital has succeeded in conducting Korea's first irreversible electroporation surgery technique on a 76-year-old liver cancer patient. The patient has since been discharged and is now resuming normal daily activities.IRE involves creating small gaps of about 2mm in the cancerous tissue b
Seoul National University Bundang Hospital (SNUBH) said on Thursday that Professor Kim Yeon-wook of the Pulmonology Department has been appointed as a member of the multidisciplinary practice standards committee of the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC). Kim's tenure in t
Yongin Severance Hospital has started prescribing Somzz, the first digital therapeutics (DTx) device in Korea, for older adults with insomnia.Somzz, approved by the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety in February last year, implements cognitive behavioral therapy, the optimum standard treatment for ins
Researchers at Seoul National University Bundang Hospital (SNUBH) have successfully developed and demonstrated a groundbreaking technology that expedites skin wound healing devoid of antibiotics, leveraging metal-organic frameworks (MOFs).Antibiotics have undeniably been instrumental in prolonging h
Precision medicine is changing the treatment performance of many adult cancers, including lung, colon, and breast cancer. By identifying the "driver gene mutations" that cause cancer and targeting them with therapies, the cure rate is increasing. What about pediatric cancers, however?It is widely un
