SEOUL, Sept. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – The fast spreading hype over health and fitness among Korean women is bringing changes in sales trends for sports brands, which used to be more or less centered around male customers. According to Hyundai Department Store, the sales percentage of sporting brands such as Adidas and New Balance, which [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea rolled out a package of measures Monday to effectively treat and prevent cancer, the leading cause of death in the country, by providing free checkups to heavy smokers and other financial aid to cancer patients in low income brackets, the health ministry said. The comprehensive plan for [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 9 (Korea Bizwire) – Laparoscopic surgery, a form of minimally invasive surgery, is a modern technique in which operations are performed through small incisions (0.5cm – 1.5cm) as an alternative to conventional surgical procedures conducted with open access. Liver transplantation from a living donor is considered to be one of the most complicated [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 8 (Korea Bizwire) – In an effort to help ease the extreme levels of stress that firefighters face, the Seoul Metropolitan Fire & Disaster Headquarters and the Ewha Brain Institute at Ewha Womans University have signed a business agreement that will promote the mental health of firefighters. More specifically, the agreement encompasses the [...]
BUSAN, Sept. 8 (Korea Bizwire) – Organ donation in Korea is not yet a popular practice. The idea of “damaging” one’s body (even when dead) is a concept that’s still difficult to grasp in a society still deep-rooted in traditional Confucian beliefs. In fact, for every 1 million Koreans, only 49.5 donated organs, a much [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 8 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s health ministry said Thursday it will expand a pilot program connecting doctors with patients in remote areas through the use of information and telecommunications technology. Under the program pushed forward by the Health and Welfare Ministry, doctors from 50 hospitals and medical institutions will see some 1,000 [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 7 (Korea Bizwire) – Garcinia gummi-gutta, or garcinia cambogia, is a tropical fruit best recognized for its proponents’ claims about its contribution to weight loss, despite a lack of clinical evidence supporting the assertion. A diet supplement containing its extract (hydroxycitric acid – HCA) is also the most popular weight-loss product sold in Korea. [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – Adding to heightened concerns in Korea over the increasing prevalence of fine dust in the atmosphere, a recent doctoral dissertation by a PhD student at Seoul National University (SNU) substantiated the repercussions of exposure to ultrafine particles on mental health. According to SNU, medical college student Kim Kyoung-nam revealed in [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – The Korea Society for the Study of Obesity (KOSSO) has dismissed recent claims by certain medical experts that the current BMI standard for obesity is too strict and needs to be adjusted, saying that there is no academic basis to support the assertions. KOSSO representatives noted that easing the [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 2 (Korea Bizwire) – The “war on obesity” is nothing new in developed countries, and Korea is also suffering from an increasingly overweight population with one in two males and one in four female adults now classified as obese. The obesity rate has also saw a steep increase in recent years, rising by [...]