SEOUL, April 23 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean medical team has succeeded in implanting electrodes in the brain of an epilepsy patient using a surgical robot for the first time in the country. Severance Hospital said Thursday that it had successfully found and removed the areas causing epilepsy for a 10-year-old girl after implanting [...]
SEOUL, April 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Employees at small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are more vulnerable to depression and stress caused by the coronavirus pandemic, also dubbed the “corona blues,” than their counterparts at large companies, a state agency said Thursday. The Korea Workers’ Compensation and Welfare Service affiliated with the labor ministry came to [...]
SEOUL, April 21 (Korea Bizwire) — More than half of South Koreans have experienced anxiety or depression due to the coronavirus pandemic, a survey showed Wednesday. In a survey by Gyeonggi Research Institute, 55.8 percent of respondents said they are anxious or depressed due to COVID-19, an increase from 47.5 percent tallied one year ago. [...]
SEOUL, April 21 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent study showed that the number of South Koreans who sought help for heart disease at hospital emergency rooms declined last year during the height of the COVID-19 crisis. During this period, however, the mortality rate of myocardial infarction patients over 60 years of age increased after their hospitalization. [...]
DAEJEON, April 20 (Korea Bizwire) — A modular facility of negative pressure rooms that was developed for treatment of severe COVID-19 patients by the Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST) has won a grand prize in a globally-renowned design competition. A team led by Nam Taek-jin, a professor and the head of Industrial [...]
SEOUL, April 18 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will start giving AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine to health care workers and airline crews this week to speed up the vaccination drive against the pandemic, the health authority said Sunday. Health authorities will administer AstraZeneca vaccines to health care workers for the disabled, seniors and veterans as well [...]
SEOUL, April 17 (Korea Bizwire) — A series of mishaps in securing enough COVID-19 vaccines is threatening to take South Korea’s nationwide inoculation scheme off schedule, putting its coveted target to achieve herd immunity by November at risk. In the worst case scenario, the country could suffer a supply shortage of COVID-19 vaccines amid growing [...]
SEOUL, April 16 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean biotech company Huons Global said Friday that it has signed a technology transfer deal with Russia’s sovereign wealth fund to produce a Russian COVID-19 vaccine in South Korea. Under the agreement with the Russian Direct Investment Fund, the Huons Global-led consortium will manufacture Sputnik V in South [...]
SEOUL, April 15 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean bio-tech company Isu Abxis said Thursday that a technology transfer deal with Russia’s sovereign wealth fund will pave the way for it to produce Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine soon. Under the agreement with Russia’s sovereign wealth fund, Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), and local bio firm GL [...]
DAEJEON, April 15 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korea Institute of Oriental Medicine said Wednesday that it can detect high blood pressure patients simply by the color and shape of an individual’s face in a photo. On the basis of about 1,000 photos of high blood pressure patients and normal persons, the research team quantitatively extracted [...]