SEOUL, March 31 (Korea Bizwire) — Seven in 10 Korean adults have used oriental medical services before, mainly for the treatment of musculoskeletal disorders, a survey showed Thursday. The Ministry of Health and Welfare conducted a survey of 5,055 adults over 19 years of age, and found that 71 percent of the respondents had used [...]
SEOUL, March 30 (Korea Bizwire) — In March 2027, a new coronavirus infection is reported in South Korea for the first time since the COVID-19 outbreak in 2020. The world fears the novel coronavirus, named COVID-27 by the World Health Organization, due to a lack of information about the infectious virus. COVID-27 patients show similar [...]
SEOUL, March 30 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean research team has developed a new smartphone app that can check the change in the amount of urine produced by analyzing the sound of urination. A joint research team from the Seoul National University Bundang Hospital and the Hallym University Sacred Heart Hospital announced on Wednesday [...]
SEOUL, March 25 (Korea Bizwire) — In 1993, it was discovered that the Soviet (now Russian) Navy had dumped approximately 1,000 tons of radioactive nuclear waste in the East Sea, 190 kilometers southeast of Vladivostok. Although the Soviet Union claimed that the concentration of nuclear waste released was lower than the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) [...]
SEOUL, March 22 (Korea Bizwire) — The share of South Koreans who know that alcoholic beverages are a cancer-causing substance remains low at about 30 percent, a survey showed Tuesday. According to a survey of 7,000 Korean men and women between the ages of 20 and 60 across the country conducted by the National Cancer [...]
SEOUL, March 20 (Korea Bizwire) — The COVID-19 pandemic has left a profound impact on students, particularly the so-called “corona kids” whose emotional and social development has been disrupted during a critical period of their lives. Many have experienced a decrease in physical strength, suffering from poor psychological well-being and a loss of self-confidence. Despite [...]
SEOUL, March 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Three plants native to South Korea turned out to have the effect of suppressing the proliferation of the COVID-19 virus and A-type (H1N1) influenza virus. As a result of a joint study conducted together with the Institut Pasteur Korea starting in 2021, the National Institute of Biological Resources identified [...]
SEOUL, March 9 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean research team said Wednesday it has developed new artificial intelligence (AI) technology to improve the accuracy of stent procedure, by ensuring a rapid diagnosis of coronary artery clogging during the treatment of cardiovascular diseases. Stent placement, in general, requires an optical coherence tomography (OCT) inspection that [...]
SEOUL, March 6 (Korea Bizwire) –A study released on Saturday revealed that more than 1 in 10 college students who were victims of childhood bullying went on to attempt suicide in early adulthood, which is more than double the rate of students who did not experience bullying. The study also suggests that the effects of [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — A Seoul hospital has become the first medical institution in South Korea to enable nurses to input and store medical records via voice recordings in real time. The Catholic University of Korea Eunpyeong St. Mary’s Hospital unveiled the Vobile (voice + mobile) electronic nursing record (ENR) system that allows [...]