Forty-six 46 new genes causing systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), a typical autoimmune disease, have been discovered for the first time in the world by a large-scale genetic study of East Asians, including Koreans, researchers said. Lupus occurs more frequently in East Asians than Europeans and wit
Construction workers were busy building container-turned-wards for Covid-19 patients in the Seoul Medical Center space in Jungnang-gu, Seoul, on Friday.Although they have finished installing 16 containers, they have yet to complete the construction inside the wards where Covid-19 patients will be ho
Two professors working at Gyeonggi-do Regional Research Center (GRRC) have discovered a new anticancer drug candidate, "Aa3," which effectively blocks the ANO1 ion channel in many malignant tumors. ANO1 is one of the ion channels in the human body. This membrane protein passes through ions inside an
An international research team, including a Korean medical scientist, has mapped out the correlation between the chemical structure and meaning of various kinase-proteolysis targeting chimaera (PROTAC) compounds. Kinase is an enzyme that catalyzes phosphate group’s transfer from adenosine triphospha
Quickly rising Covid-19 cases pushed up the number of critically ill patients who need extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) by more than two folds in the last 10 days, government data showed.The Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency said the number of Covid-19 patients with life-threaten
Hanmi Pharmaceutical said that Athenex, its U.S. partner, has presented phase 3 clinical trial results for Oraxol, an oral anticancer drug, at San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium (SABCS) 2020 on Wednesday.The poster presentation at SABCS featured an update of progression-free survival (PFS) and over
Hepatitis B (HB), long been regarded as incurable completely despite the lifelong use of antiviral agents, can be overcome rapidly by getting vaccines after taking antiviral drugs and pegylated interferon (peg-IFN) injections, a recent study showed.The Kim Yoon-jun-Lee Jeong-hoon team, both professo
Myongji Hospital kicked off the “2020 New Horizon Research Festival” for a three day run at the hospital in Goyang, Gyeonggi Province, on Wednesday."Myongji Hospital will hold the festival at the New Horizon Healing Center on the fourth and fifth floors of its complex B of the hospital under strong
Amid Korea’s new Covid-19 cases nearing 700 over the past few days, the number of seriously ill patients also rose sharply, resulting in the shortage of hospital beds in the nation’s capital city.The Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency confirmed 682 new virus cases, including 646 local infec
A research team at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) has developed a new photodynamic chemotherapy that can increase the efficiency and reduce the pain of chemotherapy and side effects after treatment.Photodynamic technology is a cancer treatment method that uses light. The treatm
“Please save my mother. She has to receive a lung transplant at all costs.” One day in August, a mail from Mexico has arrived at Asan Medical Center. The sender was a Korean-Mexican man, saying his mother was suffering from coronavirus-caused lung fibrosis and could not survive without a new lung.Do
A research team said Wednesday that the combined use of lactobacillus acidophilus LA-1 (L. acido), vitamin B complex, and curcumin has suppressed joint pain and boost immunity.Researchers, led by Professors Park Sung-hwan and Cho Mi-ra at the Catholic University of Korea College of Medicine and Yang
A KAIST-Yonsei joint research team has discovered that increased stiffness of the extracellular matrix of the tumor microenvironment accelerates the malignant alteration of cancer cells.The research team, led by Professors Cheong Jae-ho of Yonsei University College of Medicine (YUCM) and Kim Pil-nam
Family hypercholesterolemia (FH) treatment’s efficacy can differ by up to 3.7 times on patients, depending on their type of gene mutations, a study by Severance Hospital showed. FH is a genetic disorder characterized by high cholesterol levels of low-density lipoprotein (LDL), known as “bad choleste
When Daegu and North Gyeongsang Province suffered a significant blow in the first outbreak of Covid-19 in Korea, Keimyung University Daegu Dongsan Hospital played a pivotal role in containing the infectious disease in the neighboring region quickly. Immediately after the outbreak, the hospital used
Korean medical professionals have discovered a method to resolve postoperative complications of hematopoietic stem cell transplants (HSCT).A team of researchers from Seoul National University Hospital (SNUH) said Monday that they had found a solution to prevent HSCT complications by effectively prod
Samsung Medical Center said Monday that the hospital’s cardiac insufficiency team has successfully implanted HeartMate3, the latest artificial heart model. According to SMC, it has operated on seven cases of HeartMate3 transplant so far, and three patients have left the hospital and returned to thei
Researchers at the Korea Institute of Radiological & Medical Science (KIRAMS) have developed a deep learning-based technology to predict responses to chemotherapy on breast cancer patients early in the process.Local progressive breast cancer, in which cancer cells spread to lymph nodes or other tiss
Korean hospitals and businesses are using more robots in various areas to lower the risk of Covid-19 infection.LG Electronics recently said that it expanded the supply of its robots to GS Retail's convenience stores in addition to hospitals, medical foundations, and the National Cancer Center to hel
Seoul National University Bundang Hospital has signed a joint operation partnership contract with Nature’s partner journal, “npj Digital Medicine”.Npj Digital Medicine launched as an online medical journal in January 2018 and is growing as one of the most influential medical journals among Nature’s