SEOUL, Dec. 20 (Korea Bizwire) – The survival rate of South Korean cancer patients topped 70 percent in 2014 and the total number of people newly diagnosed and being treated for the disease dropped over the past three years, government data showed Tuesday. The rate of people diagnosed with cancer who lived more than five [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – In 2010, the South Korean government announced plans to cut sodium intake by 20 percent by 2020. The initiative has made impressive progress since, so far bringing down the daily intake level to 3,871mg in 2015 – a 19.1 percent reduction – according to the Korea Health Promotion Foundation. [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 8 (Korea Bizwire) – A team of internal medicine experts from Kangbuk Samsung Hospital announced Thursday the results of a recent study, which revealed that being underweight poses a greater risk of death than being overweight or obese, contradicting the common consensus that often suggests otherwise. The study was based on health check-up [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 8 (Korea Bizwire) – Contrary to popular belief, dandruff – dead skin cells from the scalp – is not contagious. The condition is caused by fungal bacteria that are present in almost everyone’s scalp. Yet, there’s no denying the fact that it can be stressful for people who suffer from dandruff more frequently [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 7 (Korea Bizwire) – The Ministry of Defense is teaming up with the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning for a big data research project that will make use of the medical information of 600,000 South Korean military personnel. Dubbed the “Military Personnel Medical Information Big Data Study”, the three-year project taking [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – After weeks of hopes and doubts, Gachon University’s Gil Hospital finally launched its AI-based super computer Watson for Oncology on Monday, and marked Korea’s first diagnosis of a cancer patient by a non-human expert. Watson, developed by IBM, sweeps through data of 290 medical journals, 200 medical text books, [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 1 (Korea Bizwire) – The Korea Center for Disease Control & Prevention confirmed Wednesday the presence in Korea of a “super bacteria” gene – Mobile Colistin Resistance-1 (MCR-1) – that is resistant to last-resort antibiotics. Three cases of the genes were found, according to the KCDC, after testing 9,300 samples of intestinal bacteria [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 30 (Korea Bizwire) – Consumers are increasingly in search of healthier natural sweeteners such as juice and honey as substitutes for sugar, which is weathering a storm of negative publicity citing it as a major cause of chronic illnesses like diabetes and obesity. A local e-commerce company, Auction, saw sales of such products [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 30 (Korea Bizwire) – A debate on Tuesday hosted by the Korea Organization for Sharing Tissue discussed ways to establish a more active donation culture for tissue and organs in Korea, both of which have disappointing donation rates here compared to other developed nations. According to KOST, the registration rate for organ donation [...]
SEJONG, Nov. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – The government set out a series of countermeasures Tuesday against increasing concerns over goods containing chemical substances, which included an investigation of all everyday use chemical products. “We have had growing public unease with everyday use products that contain chemicals, from incidents like the toxic humidifier sterilizer case,” said [...]