SEOUL, Oct. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — A growing number of South Koreans have been suffering from mental illnesses following the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, primarily office workers, a report said Tuesday. Rep. Choi Hye-young of the Democratic Party referred to a National Health Insurance Service report that more than 4 million people visited hospitals [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean research team has developed a program that can be used for the diagnosis of early Alzheimer’s disease and mild cognitive impairment by automatically analyzing changes in brain volume. The research team at the Catholic University of Korea’s College of Medicine said Tuesday that it had developed [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — The obesity rate spiked and depressive symptoms spread in 2020 when the COVID-19 pandemic shut down outdoor activities, a government report said Tuesday. The research institute under Statistics Korea reported on Tuesday that the obesity rate in 2020 was 38.3 percent, up by 5 percentage points from the previous [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Flavored tobacco products make it easy for people to start smoking, while influencing them to continue smoking, a study showed Tuesday. Kim Hee-jin, a professor at Yonsei University Graduate School of Public Health, conducted a survey of 10,030 people from 13 to 39 years of age. Among them, the [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — The primary reason why shift workers tend to suffer more from sleep disorders and depression than non-shift workers is the activation of a specific brain area associated with information processing capability, a study indicated Monday. A joint research team from Seoul National University Hospital and Samsung Medical Center divided [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Despite the government’s decision to fully lift the outdoor mask mandate from Monday, past experience indicates that the change in the government’s mask-wearing policy is unlikely to have a big impact on mask output. According to the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety, the nation’s facial mask output stood [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean biopharmaceutical firm Celltrion Inc. said Wednesday it has signed a deal to jointly develop a bispecific breast cancer treatment candidate of Abpro Corp. of the United States. Under the deal, Celltrion and Abpro will work together for the development and market release of breast cancer treatment candidate [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — A Seoul court has recently ordered the government to compensate a man who was diagnosed with brain diseases after receiving coronavirus vaccines, officials said Tuesday. It is the nation’s first known suit won by a plaintiff claiming compensation for COVID-19 vaccine injury. The man in his 30s claimed he [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Despite the government’s continued efforts to ensure a sufficient supply of medical residents for essential medical departments, the shortage of such medical residents remains unabated. The number of essential medical departments suffering from a shortage of applicants increased from eight in 2017 to 10 last year, according to the [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Health authorities on Friday issued an advisory over a possible seasonal influenza outbreak across the country, the first of its kind since 2019, amid growing concerns of a possible “twindemic” — a simultaneous outbreak of COVID-19 and the flu — this fall and winter. The Korea Disease Control and [...]