Some 13.79 million people in Korea received non-face-to-face treatment allowed temporarily to cope with the Covid-19 pandemic. Neighborhood clinics provided 86 percent of non-contact services, and 81.5 percent of people who used such services were returning patients.On Sunday, the Ministry of Health
Health and Welfare Minister Cho Kyoo-hong and Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) ambassadors to Korea met on Friday to discuss how to strengthen healthcare cooperation, the Korean government said.The meeting, held at the Westin Josun Hotel in Jung-gu, Seoul, was also attended by Korea Health Industry De
Faced with an abysmally low fertility rate of 0.78, the lowest in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Korean local governments are scrambling to boost fertility.They have introduced or increased childbirth subsidies and expanded support for infertile couples.Notably, Gy
The government is promoting a plan to lift the obligation of wearing masks in public transportation soon.According to the Central Disease Control Headquarters (CDCH), the government has been looking at the Covid-19 quarantine situation for about a month after easing mask rules indoors on Jan. 30, an
Korea should make a strategic investment to narrow the technological gap in the health and medical industries, a state agency said.On Thursday, the Korea Health Industry Development Institute (KHIDI) released a report titled “2022 Health Care and Industrial Technology Level Assessment” after analyzi
Hanall Biopharma, Hankook Korus, and GC Wellbeing have received administrative penalties from the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety (MFDS) for failing to manage and supervise drug consignees properly.According to the MFDS, the three companies outsourced drug production to other pharmaceutical compani
Korean women are less likely to feel supported by their employers regarding family planning, including pregnancy, compared to other countries, a survey showed.Roche Diagnostics released the results of a survey on women's health and self-determination among women in eight countries across the Asia Pa
Koreans with chronic kidney disease and their medical expenses more than doubled over the past decade, a report said.The Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) released the report, “Information on the prevention and management of chronic kidney disease for my family and me,” on Wednesday
The number of patients with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in Korea exceeded 100,000 in 2021, a report showed.According to the National Health Insurance Service’s ADHD health insurance treatment status data from 2017 to 2021, the number of ADHD patients has nearly doubled from 53,05
The discussion will likely begin in earnest this month to expand reimbursement criteria for Spinraza (nusinersen), Biogen’s treatment for spinal muscular atrophy (SMA).Accordingly, market watchers pay attention to whether the authorities will put Roche’s oral SMA treatment, Evysdi (risdiplam), on th
Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) said the government would start providing rotavirus vaccination to infants free of charge from Monday.Rotavirus, which is common in infants and young children, spreads easily through a child's hands and mouth from contaminants on diapers or toys. Th
Severe and rare disease patients vent their anger against support for hair loss treatment cost, one of the campaign pledges of opposition leader Lee Jae-myung during the last presidential election.For example, the municipal administration in Boryung, South Chungcheong Province, has begun to provide
The Ministry of Health and Welfare said it will start accepting applications for the 2023 “Korean Accreditation Program for Hospitals Serving Foreign Patients (KAHF)” certification.The government started the KAHF program in 2017 to certify excellent hospitals and clinics so that foreign patients can
As the Korean government prepares to charge Covid-19 treatment, doctors called for a plan to support low-income households.“While citizens have been able to receive Covid-19 treatment free of charge until now, controversy may arise when the government changes the system where patients have to bear s
President Yoon Suk Yeol instructed the government to accelerate efforts to make Korea a home of a globally competitive biotech cluster on a par with that in Boston, the U.S."We will actively consider creating a Korean version of the 'Boston Cluster' so that venture start-ups and young people can cha
Oxyracetam drugs, brain function improvement treatments that failed to prove their efficacy in clinical re-evaluation, were exited from the market eventually.On Tuesday, the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety began to withdraw and discard oxiracetam treatments supplied by domestic drugmakers, saying t
President Yoon Suk-yeol ordered government officials to expand and reorganize the 24-hour pediatric emergency care system and promised that the government would spare no support in strengthening the pediatric medical system so that children can grow up healthy.Attending the policy discussion held at
The government has decided to lift the mandatory Covid-19 polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test for entrants from China from March 1.Quarantine officials also stressed that it will drop the measure that made flights from China only arrive at Incheon Airport in March as well."The domestic Covid-19 sit
The government and ruling People Power Party are pressing harder than expected to increase the number of medical doctors. PPP, in particular, has recently raised its pressure, saying that the doctor shortage results from physicians’ “collective selfishness.”“The imbalance between the supply and dema
An appellate court has overruled the lowest court's decision and ruled in favor of a same-sex couple that filed an administrative lawsuit against the National Health Insurance Service (NHIS) asking for recognition of their qualifications for the health insurance dependent policy.The ruling overturne