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Policy
‘Long-term care insurance fund to dry out in four years’
Long-term care insurance reserves will dry out in 2026 and create a deficit of 76.7 trillion won ($58.9 billion) in 2070, a lawmaker said Friday, calling for the government to expa...
Kwak Sung-sun
2022-08-12 6:59 PM
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Hospital
Covid-19 vaccination related to abnormal uterine bleeding
A Korean medical group’s investigation revealed that the Covid-19 vaccination could have affected the onset of deep vein thrombosis (DVT) or cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (CVST)...
Koh Jung Min
2022-08-12 3:03 PM
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Hospital
‘Cancer patients with low glucose have better radiotherapy outcomes’
A Korean researcher said he identified the relationship between plasma glucose levels and radiotherapy's effect on cancer treatment.Professor Kong Moon-kyu of radiation oncology at...
Kim Eun-young
2022-08-12 3:45 PM
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Pharma
Voronoi’s NSCLC drug candidate to get state financial support
Voronoi said Friday that its next-generation non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) drug candidate, VRN11, has been selected as a new non-clinical support project by the Korea Drug Dev...
Marianne Chang
2022-08-12 3:45 PM
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Hospital
Mortality higher in septic shock patients with sarcopenia: Severance Hospital
Death rate increases by up to a quarter among septic shock patients with sarcopenia, Severance Hospital said Friday.Infectious disease Professors Ku Nam-su and Kim Jung-ho announce...
Kim Kee-won
2022-08-12 4:19 PM
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Bio
i-SENS, Meraki Place to jointly develop chronic disease management service
Biosensor company i-SENS signed a memorandum of understanding with Meraki Place, a digital healthcare provider, to develop a chronic disease management service on Wednesday.Meraki ...
Kim Kee-won
2022-08-12 1:59 PM
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Device/ICT
KAIST develops new cancer therapy using AI-based virtual drug-screening tech
KAIST said Friday its researchers have succeeded in developing a new anticancer treatment using artificial intelligence-based virtual drug-screening technology. The signaling prote...
Marianne Chang
2022-08-12 2:00 PM
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Special
Myongji Hospital’s training program lauded by health and medical professionals…
Some people and organizations are better at turning crises into opportunities than others. Myongji Hospital in Goyang, a bed town north of Seoul, is one of them, cementing its posi...
Marianne Chang
2022-08-11 2:56 PM
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Hospital
‘Therapeutic drug monitoring can improve pediatric Crohn’s disease treatment’
Korean researchers said they confirmed a new therapeutic drug monitoring strategy to improve the treatment outcome in pediatric Crohn’s disease, a type of inflammatory bowel diseas...
Kim Eun-young
2022-08-11 2:53 PM
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Policy
Amgen’s acute lymphoblastic leukemia drug Blincyto passes reimbursement review
Amgen’s acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) treatment Blincyto (ingredient: blinatumomab) passed the reimbursement review about two years after expanding indication to treat minimal...
Kim Yun-mi
2022-08-11 12:23 PM
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Pharma
Hanall Biopharma adds probiotics Biotop lineup
Hanall Biopharma, a subsidiary of Daewoong Pharmaceutical, said it expanded the lineup of Biotop, over-the-counter probiotics.On Wednesday, Hanall Biopharma said it released Biotop...
Kim Chan-hyuk
2022-08-11 12:51 PM
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Hospital
KUAH staffs provide medical service for ethnic Korean refugees from Ukraine
The medical staff of Korea University Ansan Hospital (KUAH) provided medical assistance to ethnic Koreans who had evacuated to their fatherland because of Russia’s war in Ukraine.A...
Kim Kee-won
2022-08-11 5:02 PM