Transmission risks of respiratory infectious diseases could be up to three times higher in confined spaces than open spaces, a local study found.The research duo -- Moon Jin-young, leader author as a medical resident at the Seoul St. Mary’s Hospital’s Occupation and Environmental Medicine Department
With the unrelenting fourth wave of Covid-19, the number of critically ill patients receiving extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) hit a record high on Tuesday, and this lifesaving treatment is in shortage in some regions.According to the Korean Society for Thoracic & Cardiovascular Surgery (K
Myongji Hospital will provide healthcare services for Koreans living in Indonesia to help them better cope with the Covid-19 pandemic and manage their overall health.The number of confirmed coronavirus patients has recently reached 3.5 million in the Southeast Asian country.Under an agreement signed
Severance Hospital said Thursday that robotic partial excision that preserves anus for patients with locally advanced rectal cancer invading levator ani muscle showed improved bowel function, prognosis, and survival and recurrence rates.A research team, led by Professors Kim Nam-kyu, Yang Seung-yoon
University hospitals are fiercely competing to establish branches in the greater Seoul area, despite the medical community’s concerns over excessive competition.Eight university hospitals have already decided to build branches in the Seoul capital area. Each branch hospital is expected to accommodat
A group of Korean researchers has recently presented medical evidence that breastfeeding can reduce the risks of developing hereditary ovarian cancer.The researchers analyzed the correlation between the possibility of ovarian cancer and breastfeeding by BRCA1/2 mutation carriers.According to the Nat
Major university hospitals are increasingly using AI-powered medical voice recognition technologies.Developers of healthcare AI solutions are speeding up the commercialization of their products in line with university hospitals’ push to make themselves smarter with digital healthcare solutions.Wheth
A joint research team has revealed the characteristics and origins of the specific immune cells that cause damage in Covid-19 patients’ lungs, the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) said on Wednesday.The research results will be able to control pulmonary damages caused by exc
Severance Hospital said Wednesday that a three-nation research team has found the possibility of developing a cure for skin pigmentation lesions, such as post-inflammatory hyperpigmentation and age spots.The study results will provide a clue in developing new treatments for skin beauty and whitening
In general, idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus (iNPH) patients do not have Parkinson’s disease.However, some cases of iNPH accompanying Parkinson’s have recently been reported, requiring combined treatments of the two diseases, the Seoul National University Bundang Hospital (SNUBH) said Tuesda
“Testing for irregular heart rhythm is the first step for identifying heart disease. The confirmation of arrhythmia is possible only by an electrocardiogram (ECG) test and a specialist’s review of the patient’s symptoms. As the patient’s feeling of symptoms is subjective, their awareness of symptoms
Primary medical institutions suffer from negative reviews on major internet portals that are not based on facts but reviewers’ subjective emotions, doctors said.Clinic owners are particularly unhappy about how Naver runs the review system.The nation’s largest internet portal allows users to review a
Doctors said they need to enhance punishment to root out ghost surgery, or illegally changing a surgeon without a patient’s knowledge, according to a survey by the Korean Medical Association’s (KMA) Research Institute for Healthcare Policy.Ghost surgery sparked the general public’s demand for a mand
St. Mary’s Hospital’s Catholic Hematology Hospital said Monday its haploidentical transplants (Haplo-HSCT) from half-matched sibling donors using a reduced-intensity regimen has shown positive outcomes compared to transplants from matched donors for acute myeloid leukemia patients.The research team
More universities and local governments are pushing for establishing new medical schools.However, the Korean Medical Association (KMA) said the nation needs legislation to shut down insolvent medical schools and curb expanding new medical schools.The doctors’ group also asserted that the nation need
A research team of Seoul St. Mary’s Hospital has developed a model that predicts rectal cancer using patients' radiological, pathological, and clinical data.The selected cohort model of 489 patients had rectal cancer surgery from 2009 to 2015. To develop the predictive model for recurrence in rectal
With the Covid-19 pandemic continuing for over a year and a half, the number of patients reporting “long Covid” symptoms that linger even after recovery from Covid-19 infection is rising.Long Covid, also known as post-Covid-19 fatigue syndrome, refers to a case where related symptoms persist for mor
A research team at Korea University Guro Hospital has discovered a biomarker that can diagnose nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) using serum microRNA (miRNA).NASH is a disease that occurs in about 25 percent of patients with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease. Unlike simple fatty liver, the disease
Researchers at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) have succeeded in developing a biosensor source technology that improves sensitivity by increasing the sensitivity of field-effect transistors (FET) using electrical signals.Despite FET-based molecular detection technology’s detecti
Researchers at St. Mary’s Seoul Hospital have developed a method to treat acute liver failure using 3D printing.Acute liver failure is a serious disease with a mortality rate of up to 80 percent if the patient does not receive liver transplantation at the time of onset. Therefore, there has been an