SEOUL, Sept. 2 (Korea Bizwire) – Advances in personalized medicine are helping transform the outlook for children diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), the most common form of childhood blood cancer. A study by researchers at Asan Medical Center in Seoul found that adjusting chemotherapy intensity according to the level of minimal residual disease (MRD) [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 5 (Korea Bizwire) –The Asan Medical Center in Seoul has racked up losses of more than 50 billion won over the past 40 days, a staggering financial toll from a nationwide strike by resident physicians protesting the government’s plan to expand medical school admissions. In an email to faculty members on April 3, [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — A local hospital in Seoul has introduced virtual reality (VR) technology to train nurses in an ‘untact’ (contactless) environment in order to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. Asan Medical Center announced Monday that it has set up a VR training platform to enable trainees to study in virtual [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — A Chilean engineer suffering from liver cancer has miraculously regained health after receiving a liver transplant in South Korea from his two daughters. Alberto, 62, had been working as a civil engineer in Chile when he began to suffer from severe fatigue and jaundice last September. He was soon [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — An American citizen suffering from cirrhosis of the liver received a liver transplant and regained health at a South Korean hospital. The patient was known to have come to South Korea as recommended by doctors at a major university hospital in the United States. Charles Carson, a software engineer [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Medical technology giant Siemens Healthineers and Seoul’s Asan Medical Center have joined hands to develop a CT scan technology that makes it easier for doctors to take a CT scan of children who have a hard time holding their breath. Existing CT technology is based on scans made in [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 14 (Korea Bizwire) – Revenue worries in the aftermath of healthcare reforms dubbed “Moon Jae-in Care” are keeping hospitals’ coffers closed even as the government takes pains to encourage the medical sector to invest in new infrastructure. After initially earmarking 390 billion won for a medical facility in “city of the future” Songdo [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 2 (Korea Bizwire) – Robotic surgery, or robot-assisted surgery, has become a divisive issue in the medical sector due to the still lacking store of data proving it to be a safe procedure. The debate, at least pertaining to kidney surgery, may be over, thanks to professor Jeong In-gab and his research team [...]