Researchers at Severance Hospital have discovered a way to improve alveolar bone’s regeneration ability while significantly reducing complications during dental implant placement.The team, led by Professors Cha Jae-kook and Jung Ui-won at the hospital, expects that the research results will be helpf
A research team at Seoul National University Hospital (SNUH) has found that type 2 diabetes patients can lower the risk of atrial fibrillation by drinking less alcohol.Atrial fibrillation, the most common arrhythmia, is a disease that occurs in about 10 percent of the elderly population. Atrial fibr
With senior medical school students increasingly avoiding pediatrics when choosing a specialty, the medical community raised concerns that doctors treating seriously ill pediatric patients were on the verge of extinction.Representing pediatricians’ voice, an online petition on Cheong Wa Dae recently
One in every four Covid-19 patients were asymptomatic, but those with high heart rate and fever had a higher risk of death or receiving oxygen therapy, a medical report said.Kyung Hee University School of Medicine’s Preventive Medicine Department and Korea University School of Medicine’s Pediatrics
A research team at Ewha Womans University Cancer Center for Women has discovered a microbiome that can increase the breast cancer anti-hormone treatment efficacy.The research team, led by Professors Moon Byung-in and Ahn Jung-shin, conducted a study on 300 breast cancer patients and healthy people t
Researchers at Yeoudio St. Mary’s Hospital have discovered that elderly with depression have a higher risk of developing glaucoma.The team, led by Professors Jeong Yoon-Hye, concluded so after analyzing the risk of glaucoma based on the self-depression questionnaire and depression diagnosis records
CDK4/6 inhibitors have arrived to treat hormone receptor (HR) positive, HER2 negative breast cancer, allowing innovative targeted therapies for premenopausal patients who have had very limited treatment options.Paying more attention to detailed treatment strategies for premenopausal patients, physic
Researchers at Seoul National University Hospital (SNUH) have submitted a clinical research plan for CAR-T treatment targeting acute lymphoblastic leukemia in children and adolescents to the Ministry of Health and Welfare, the hospital said.If approved, children and adolescents with relapsed and ref
Researchers at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) have developed a precursor agent that can enhance immunotherapies’ effects by lowering their side effects.The team, led by Professor Ryu Ju-hee at the Theragnosis Center, developed the precursor agent after developing a doxorubicin-
A research team at Severance Hospital has discovered that DDP-4 (Dipeptidyl peptidase-4) oral diabetes medication can slow the progression of Parkinson's disease.The research team, led by Professors Lee Phil-hyu and Jeong Seong-ho, found that when patients with the early-phase Parkinson's disease to
Four out of 10 Korean people have gained at least 3 kg in body weight over 14 months since the outbreak of Covid-19 in January last year, a poll showed.The Korean Society for the Study of Obesity (KOSSO) on Thursday released the results of the “People’s Weight Management Status and Obesity Awareness
Despite concerns over blood clotting reports, there is no reason to hesitate to get the AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine, an expert said.The AZ vaccine’s risk of causing blood clots has been exaggerated due to inaccurate information, he said.Na Sang-hoon, a professor at the Cardiology Department of th
Researchers at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) have developed a technology that reduces the side effects of medical devices by accumulating cell periphery materials on the surface of such products.The material developed by the research team, led by Professors Jung Yoon-ki at KIS
Samsung Medical Center (SMC) said Wednesday it has completed administering chimeric antigen receptor T (CAR-T) cell therapy to patients with relapsed or refractory large B-cell lymphoma at its CAR-T center, the first one in Korea.SMC established the facility satisfying good manufacturing practice (G
A joint team of Korean and U.S. researchers has discovered the possibility of developing a treatment for gray hair using pigment stem cells in hair follicles.According to the Severance Hospital, melanocytes in the hair follicle determine a person's hair color. The higher the amount of stem cells tha
Researchers at Severance Hospital have found the main factors that could predict patients’ responses to anticancer treatments by analyzing bile duct cancer genes of patients with poor prognosis.Bile duct cancer, which marks the sixth-highest cancer-related mortality rate in Korea, shows poor prognos
Researchers at St. Mary’s Seoul Hospital have identified the role of the YAP1 (Yes-associated Protein 1) protein, which increases the risk of metastasis and death of breast cancer patients.They expect the discovery will serve as the basis for developing targeted therapies that can increase the effec
Adverse events of AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine occurred more in women and younger people among healthcare workers in Korea, a medical report said.The research team at the Asan Medical Center polled 5,866 out of 7,625 healthcare professionals who received vaccination and published the results in th
The regulator has recently allowed local hospitals to use Pharmicell’s stem cell therapy for Covid-19 treatment only for another year.With the extended approval, each medical institution’s institutional review board (IRB) can apply for the use of Pharmicell’s Cellgram-AKI, allogeneic mesenchymal ste
The Korean government is reviewing the possibility of introducing the Russian Covid-19 vaccine Sputnik V, but only 7 percent of the Russian population received the vaccination, industry data showed.Sputnik V, approved in Russia in August last year, was the first authorized Covid-19 vaccine globally.