SEOUL, Feb. 14 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of South Korean women suffering from cystitis increases significantly during the Lunar New Year holiday due to stress and a weak immune system, a new study has found. According to data from the Health Insurance Review & Assessment Service (HIRA), an estimated 5,268 people were diagnosed with cystitis [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 14 (Korea Bizwire) – Revenue worries in the aftermath of healthcare reforms dubbed “Moon Jae-in Care” are keeping hospitals’ coffers closed even as the government takes pains to encourage the medical sector to invest in new infrastructure. After initially earmarking 390 billion won for a medical facility in “city of the future” Songdo [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 14 (Korea Bizwire) – “Though bouts of morning sickness are normally indicative of a healthy pregnancy, severe cases can cause nutritional imbalances that interfere in the supply of folic acid, increasing the chances of deformed and low-birth weight newborns.” Dr. Han Jeong-yeol of Cheil General Hospital, who led a study into the effects [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean toddlers sleep late and wake up early compared with their peers in other countries, with 6 out of 10 going to bed after 10 p.m., a study showed Friday. According to the study conducted by the Korea Institute of Child Care and Institute, South Korean preschoolers slept [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Three out of 10 adolescent teens in South Korea and one-fifth of children are at risk of becoming addicted to their smartphones, a survey showed Thursday. According to the survey conducted by the Ministry of Science and ICT, and the National Information Society Agency (NIA), 30.9 percent of the [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Though the South Korean public considers the introduction of diseases originating abroad (MERS, ebola, avian influenza) a serious problem, the percentage of those who believe that they themselves are at risk of contracting one of these diseases was found to be low. In a survey of 1,000 adults carried [...]
ULSAN, Feb. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean research team has developed a new medical technology combining virtual reality and mirror therapy that can help alleviate pain for patients. According to Ulsan University on Wednesday, the research team led by professors Hwang Chang-ho and Koo Kyo-in has developed a new technology dubbed ‘enhanced reality’ [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea remained the biggest consumer of antibiotics in 2016, topping the list among member states of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), health records showed Wednesday. The defined daily dose (DDD), a measure of usage for antibiotics, was 34.8 in South Korea, meaning 34.8 out of [...]
BUSAN, Feb. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Busan’s Yeonje District announced on February 5 that it will distribute LED sensor lights in the homes of residents who may be at risk of “lonely death”. Lonely death refers to a social phenomenon where individuals are discovered dead in their living quarters days or sometimes weeks after their [...]
SEJONG, Feb. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — To better abide by international guidelines regarding the slaughter of animals, South Korea’s Rural Development Administration (RDA) announced February 5 that it had produced and tested equipment that creates nitrogen foam. According to the RDA, the World Organization for Animal Health advises the use of nitrogen gas when slaughtering [...]