SEOUL, Oct.13 (Korea Bizwire) – Seoul St. Mary’s Hospital announced that it has developed a system that can continue to manage foreign patients who visit Korea to treat their illness even after they return to their homes abroad. The system will be called ‘Smart After-Care’. The hospital launched the system first at the Marina Health [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 7 (Korea Bizwire) – Due to the continuous efforts of researchers, numerous ways to prevent dementia are now being suggested. Recent studies have found that using the brain more could prevent dementia. Also, a substance that might be able to prevent and treat dementia has been found in skate (fish) skin. According to [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 7 (Korea Bizwire) – It turns out that love might be able to cure those who were filling their empty ‘void’ with food. The ‘love hormone’ oxytocin has showed possible effectiveness in curing patients with bulimia, according to current research conducted by a Korean and English joint research team. Oxytocin is a hormone [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 30 (Korea Bizwire) – With the advance of information communication technology(ICT), boundaries between businesses are falling apart rapidly, and collaboration among different businesses is becoming a new norm. Telecommunication industry is no exception and they are stepping into the medical service field betting this will sustain their growth. According to industry watchers, SK Telecom and [...]
SEJONG, Sept. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea will revise health insurance coverage for foreign workers starting in October to prevent the misuse of benefits, the government said Tuesday. The Ministry of Health and Welfare and National Health Insurance Corporation said under the changes, foreign nationals who enter the country on a work visa must [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 24 (Korea Bizwire) -It turns out that high school seniors preparing for college entrance exams are severely sleep-deprived. Toz, a business that rents meeting rooms, conducted a survey on 1,800 high school seniors who used their study center. Results showed that 31 percent of the respondents slept five to six hours a night, [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – Park, a former middle school teacher, began his new life last May. After his retirement two years ago, he had nothing to do for a while, but he happened to find out about the “dementia partner” program, and is now working as one of the partners. As a dementia [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – As Sovaldi, a new drug for the hepatitis C virus developed by US-based biotechnology company Gilead, has been approved by the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety of Korea, speculation is mounting over how much it will cost in Korea. The drug is currently being sold for US$1,000 a pill [...]
GOESAN, Sept. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — An international organic food expo has kicked off in South Korea’s central agricultural town of Goesan to promote sustainable agriculture and ecological life, organizers said Friday. The 2015 Goesan International Organic Expo began in the mountainous town in North Chungcheong Province, for a 24-day run under the theme “Organic [...]
SEJONG, Sept. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea ranked relatively low among members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in terms of the quality of life mainly due to a lack of satisfaction felt by people in their everyday lives, a report showed Thursday. According to the Korea Institute for Health and [...]