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People are usually sensitive to drugs’ adverse reactions rather than to their effectiveness. This is why many people turn to dietary supplements instead of medicines. Let’s take statin as an example. A statin is often used to lower the cholesterol level in the blood. According to a 2021 U.S. study,
Opinion
Jeong Jae-hoon
2022.11.25 09:35
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The news -- that Nicholas Volker, a 6-year-old American patient with a rare disease, was first diagnosed based on advanced genomic technology -- made headlines in the genetic diagnosis academia and industry in 2011. It was then that I first learned about the problem of diagnosing rare diseases. But
Opinion
Keum Chang-won
2022.11.18 13:00
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There are several facts about the origin of restaurants that are little known. One of them is that, in the old days, a restaurant was a “food name,” not a place. In Paris in the 18th century, a restaurant referred to bouillon or a clear broth. The broth was called a restaurant meaning “food that res
Opinion
Jeong Jae-hoon
2022.11.11 11:40
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Many people are busy getting ready to participate in CES 2023, the world's largest tech exhibition in Las Vegas, Nev., from Jan. 5-8.Preliminary applications are rushing not only from large conglomerates, including Samsung, SK, and Hyundai Motor groups, but also from SMEs, startups, industry-univers
Opinion
Min Kyeong-joong, Director of KBR Meta-Health Lab
2022.11.04 16:42
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The Korean biopharmaceutical industry is losing the trust of both retail and institutional investors quickly because many companies fail to keep their promises on new drug development.Some bio stocks, which once served as bellwethers on the tech-heavy Kosdaq, were recently pushed to the brink of del
Reporter’s Notebook
Lee Han-soo
2022.11.02 13:55
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An animated film, “The Old Man Z,” was released in Japan in 1991.The plot of the movie is as follows. Because of the serious population aging, Japan suffers from an absolute shortage of nursing hospitals and caregivers. Therefore, the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Labor developed the state-of-the-
Opinion
Roh Dong-hoon
2022.10.25 11:11
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The accident and sickness allowance is a system that compensates for income so that workers can focus on treatment if they have difficulty conducting economic activities due to injuries or diseases unrelated to their work.This system is considered an important social safety net because it responds t
Opinion
Lee Bo-hyoung, CEO of Macoll Consulting Group
2022.10.21 13:48
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There are many food stories that sound factual but are actually myths. One good example of a myth is asking people to wait for about two minutes after opening a canned coffee. The apparent logic here is that leaving it open for around two to five minutes could reduce the furan levels in a canned cof
Opinion
Jeong Jae-hoon
2022.10.21 11:10
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It’s already been nearly a decade since I began to attend the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Nev. However, it was more than three decades ago that I first got interested in the annual gathering of global appliance makers and their cutting-edge products.CES, which made it
Opinion
Min Kyeong-joong
2022.10.20 14:48
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“There are over 10,000 rare diseases but how many of them have a cure?” When I introduce the diagnosis of rare diseases, I often get questions about treatment. I tend to give the general answer that therapies are being developed for about 5 percent of rare diseases, and there is no cure for 95 perce
Opinion
Keum Chang-won
2022.10.14 13:51
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Korea is often called “a society of distrust” or “a society of conflicts.” Distrust runs deep in existing systems including the state, media, business, and civic groups. Accordingly, social conflicts occur frequently across the boundaries of political ideologies, regions, and generations. Recent con
Opinion
By Lee Bo-hyoung, CEO of Macoll Consulting Group
2022.09.16 10:58
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Global Bio Conference (GBC) 2022 ended its three-day run on Wednesday.According to the conference organizers, the GBC, hosted by the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety (MFDS), aims to set the stage for active communication aiming to lead a balanced international regulatory environment.The conference p
Reporter’s Notebook
Lee Han-soo
2022.09.08 14:43
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Like its predecessors, the Yoon Suk-yeol government made an ambitious promise to ease regulations to revitalize corporate activities.When Yoon was president-elect in March, he pledged to make a hotline to communicate with business lobby groups directly. Prime Minister Han Duck-soo also showed his st
Opinion
Lee Bo-hyoung, CEO of Macoll Consulting Group
2022.08.19 15:31
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Cancer is thought to be synonymous with death and suffering. Therefore, it is easy to find cancer patients among our family and friends.According to the 2019 national cancer registration statistics in Korea, 1 out of 25 people (a total patient population of 2,147,503 people) are either receiving can
Opinion
Lee Bo-hyoung, CEO of Macoll Consulting Group
2022.07.29 12:05
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What would it be if we had to pick one piece of information most important for the genetic diagnosis of rare disease patients?The information required for genetic diagnosis is very diverse, such as the correlation between genes and diseases, the function of genes, important location information that
Opinion
Keum Chang-won
2022.07.27 15:53
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The ruling People Power Party (PPP) clinched a landslide victory in local elections on June 1. Although the new government started with the lowest approval ratings compared to any previous government, the local elections boosted its insufficient political power. The political season has ended. Now,
Opinion
By Lee Bo-hyoung, CEO of Macoll Consulting Group
2022.07.01 11:33
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Under the former Moon Jae-in administration, the Korean Medical Association (KMA) collided with the government on almost every health issue.Defying the government’s plan to establish a new public medical school to increase doctors at state-run hospitals, medical school students even refused to take
Opinion
By Lee Bo-hyoung, CEO of Macoll Consulting Group
2022.06.17 15:59
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I started as a software engineer by developing embedded software for digital X-ray systems in the early 1980s. It was a transitional period where a system that combined 8-bit microprocessors such as i8085 or Z80 with assembly language to a system based on C language and 16-bit processors such as i80
Opinion
By Masaaki Ohtsuka
2022.05.26 16:03
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This month is a momentous occasion, celebrating the nearly 15 years of the formalization of medical device regulations in Korea. Which is also a moment to reflect – how has the industry evolved since then, and what are the major themes to tackle ahead?APACMed, the voice of the medical device industr
Opinion
Roberta Sarno
2022.05.26 14:58
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Climate change, fine dust, the humidifier sterilizer incident that killed many Korean people, frequent industrial incidents, mounting garbage, drinking and smoking, and growing obesity and mental illness – what do they have in common?.These are the growing shadows of modern civilization’s rapid expa
Opinion
Lee Bo-hyoung, CEO of Macoll Consulting Group
2022.05.20 14:31
