The Covid-19 pandemic not only reduced scientists’ research time but made researchers less inclined to initiate new projects, a study showed. In addition, the pandemic’s impact was greater on scientists who did not carry out Covid-19-related studies.The research team at Northwestern University in th
A single shot of a Covid-19 vaccine brings greater protection against Covid-19 infection in people who were previously infected with the disease than in those who were not, a U.K. study showed.The research team in the U.S. conducted the study on healthcare workers who enrolled in the PITCH (Protecti
The Mu variant of the Covid-19 virus, also known as B.1.621, is more resistant to antibodies than any other variants, a study showed.Japanese researchers, including those at the University of Tokyo, released the results of their joint study in the New England Journal of Medicine on Wednesday.The Mu
Professor Kim In-sik at the Department of Biomedical Laboratory Science at Eulji University, Euijeongbu, said he found a new allergen’s role to induce allergy to house dust mites.The novel allergen was registered as “Der p 38” by the WHO/IUIS (International Union of Immunological Societies) Allergen
The government should require a bridging trial for Mifegymiso, an abortion pill under the regulator’s review for marketing approval, the Korean Association of Obstetricians & Gynecologists (KSOG) said.Industry watchers had expected that the government could exempt a bridging study because Mifegymiso
Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine was highly effective against the Delta variant in adolescents in Israel, where Covid-19 vaccination for the adolescent population started earlier than in Korea.A research team at Boston Children’s Hospital said it used data from Clalit Health Services, the largest health ca
An intranasal Covid-19 vaccine in the form of a spray could help overcome the shortcomings of intramuscular injections, a U.S. medical journal said.On Tuesday, the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation approved a phase 2 trial of a spray version of the Sputnik V Covid-19 vaccine.Meissa Vaccin
The Korean Society for Laboratory Medicine (KSLM) expressed concerns over the increasing number of people purchasing home antibody kits at pharmacies and taking Covid-19 antibody tests.Home antibody tests are inaccurate and ineffective, and they can evaluate neither a person’s immunity against the C
The waning effect of Covid-19 vaccines and the emergence of variants make it almost impossible to achieve herd immunity against the pandemic, and people will have to live with Covid-19 for a long time, skeptics say.However, strategies focusing on T cell responses can help overcome the Covid-19 pande
Gyeonggi Province said it would install mobile clinic modules (MCM) to use them as a treatment community center for Covid-19 patients in self-treatment and short-term treatment amid the prolonged Covid-19 pandemic.The mobile clinic modules (MCM), developed as the world’s first mobile negative-pressu
Migrants showed a high suicide rate in Korea, already notorious for having the highest suicide rate among OECD members.WeFriends, also known as the Migrant Health Association in Korea, surveyed 102 Nepali, Chinese, and Burmese migrant workers at high suicide risk to learn their mental health status
The Korean Medical Association (KMA) said the health authorities should restrict the general public's use of Covid-19 home test kits.The doctors' group said that reckless use of self-test kits partially contributed to the continuing spike in Covid-19 cases despite the strictest Level 4 social distan
The medical community criticized the government for inconsistent Covid-19 vaccination policy, particularly after the authorities reversed the previous position and allowed younger people to get AstraZeneca’s shots.On Tuesday, the Korean Medical Association’s Covid-19 response committee released a st
The fourth wave of Covid-19 is increasingly weighing on critical care, as the number of severely ill Covid-19 patients receiving extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) doubled in a month.The Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) said there were 379 critically ill Covid-19 patients a
The government picked inno.N and Quratis to grant financial support for phase 1 Covid-19 vaccine trials through three contests this year. Genexine, which aims to enter a phase 3 study of a Covid-19 vaccine (GN-19N), applied for the program but failed to win support. Rep. Jeon Bong-min of the People
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
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
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
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