A joint research team of Korea and Germany has found a new therapeutic possibility for treating chronic neurological disorder multiple sclerosis and demyelination, including Guillain-Barre syndrome.The research team, led by Cellular Biology Professor Kim Kee-pyo at Catholic University College of Med
President Moon Jae-in recently ordered the health authorities to come up with support measures for a nursing assistant in her 40s diagnosed with acute disseminated encephalomyelitis after receiving AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine.However, actual compensation will take longer than expected because the
Severance Hospital said Thursday that it has successfully found and removed the areas causing epilepsy after implanting electrodes in a patient's brain using a domestic surgical robot for the first time.Professor Chang Won-seok of the Neurosurgery Department at Severance Hospital and his team have c
Drinking lots of soda containing artificial sweeteners could raise the chance of developing liver cancer, a local study said.Myung Seung-kwon, president of the Graduate School of Cancer Science and Policy at the National Cancer Center (family medicine department), and his Ph.D. student Alfred Jatho
Korean medical institutions continued to expand in the overseas markets last year despite the Covid-19 pandemic, government data showed.The Ministry of Health and Welfare and the Korea Health Industry Development Institute said that the government received 91 reports of local medical institutions’ p
Local cardiologists’ efforts to find the best antiplatelet therapy in Korean patients, who have different blood clotting tendencies from Westerners, have finally paid off.Korean researchers will release the results of various trials of antiplatelet therapies in patients with acute myocardial infarct
Researchers at Seoul National University Bundang Hospital (SNUBH) have confirmed laparoscopic surgery after self-expandable metallic stent (SEMS) treatment is safe in treating colorectal cancer patients with intestinal obstruction.SEMS implantation in obstructive colorectal cancer is a useful treatm
Korean doctors are finding it difficult to treat patients due to the shortage of doxycycline, an antibiotic, industry sources said. A local drugmaker stopped manufacturing doxycycline-containing medicines in November because it could not import raw materials, they said.Doxycycline is commonly used i
The Covid-19 pandemic has led to a decrease in the number of emergency room (ER) visits by patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI), a condition that requires urgent treatment, a study showed.Inha University College of Medicine’s Emergency Department and the National Medical Center’s National
“We can delay the onset of most lysosomal storage disorders (LSD) with steady treatment thanks to enzyme replacement treatment (ERT). However, symptoms already progressed are irreversible even after ERT. So, it is very important to detect the disease early and start treatment immediately.”Professor
Patients with hematological malignancy (HM), and those with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) in particular, had significantly low immune responses to Covid-19 mRNA vaccines, a medical report said.Thus, HM patients need to maintain non-pharmaceutical interventions such as mask-wearing and social di
A research team at Seoul National University Hospital has discovered a new diagnostic and treatment agent that targets prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA), a protein mainly present on prostate cells' surface.With the discovery, the team, led by Professors Kwak Chul and Jung Chang-wook of the D
A report has shown that Korean scientists published the largest number of the science citation index (SCI)-class papers in the area of clinical medicine in 2019.Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) and Korea Advanced Institute of S&T Evaluation and planning (KISTEP) recently an
Raid antigen test kits for Covid-19, often used for home tests before hospitalization, showed as low as 17.5 percent sensitivity, a local study said.Sensitivity refers to the probability of a device judging positive as positive. A test kit with low sensitivity is highly likely to produce a false-neg
Researchers at St. Mary's Seoul Hospital have published a study that suggested the possibility of treating Sjogren's syndrome, an intractable and rare autoimmune disease, by regulating immune function using intestinal bacterial metabolites.The research team, led by Professors Park Sung-hwan and Cho
The widespread concerns about the “Covid-19 obesity” have become a reality among Korean children and adolescents, a group of researchers said here Monday.The research team at Samsung Medical Center (SMC), led by Professors Choi Yeon-ho and Kim Mi-jin, found that all indicators related to obesity, su
Researchers at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) have succeeded in cultivating bokchoy with lots of glucosinolate, an anti-obesity substance, in their smart farm, the state-run institute said Friday. The research team, led by Dr. Yoo Gi-hye from Smart Farm Research Center, produce
Early this year, Professor Yoon Hyun-bae of the Department of Human Systems Medicine at Seoul National University College of Medicine received emails from two students while handling class enrollments. The students were worried about being unable to register for Yoon’s class because the number of ap
Korean and U.S. experts are trying to find a new way to treat glioblastoma, an intractable brain cancer, the Seoul National University Hospital said Friday.The joint team, led by Professor Paek Sun-ha and researcher Kim Yo-na of Seoul National University Hospital (SNUH) and Drs. Roel G.W. Verhaak an
People aged from 20 to 39 reported more frequent adverse events than those of 50 and older after getting AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine in Korea, a medical report showed. Also, AZ vaccines reported more adverse reactions than Pfizer vaccines.A research team at the Sungkyunkwan University School of M