SEOUL, Oct. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent study revealed that the risk of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in children can be measured using stool samples. Researchers from Yonsei University’s Severance Hospital compared and analyzed the intestinal microbiome structure in the feces of 54 children with ADS who visited the hospital and 38 children without [...]
CHEONGJU, Oct. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Children of some 390 Afghans under South Korean protection were seen welcoming a Korean instructor on Thursday. Currently staying at the National Human Resources Development Institute in the nation’s central county of Jincheon, they seemed to have adjusted well in less than two months. The North Chungcheong Province education [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — With children spending longer hours confined at home following the coronavirus outbreak, experts are warning of heightened concern for high blood pressure caused by obesity. A research team from Woorisoa Children’s Hospital conducted a health survey of 1,548 elementary school students (813 first-graders and 735 fourth-graders). They found that [...]
Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Oct. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA), a global leader in health technology, today announced the launch of Philips Pediatric Coaching, a holistic solution designed to be a less stressful experience for parents and their children undergoing MRI scans. Using gamification and ‘buddy system’ techniques to prepare children and their [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — In the midst of the increase in the number gamers resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, the number of parents who play video games with their children has been on an upward trend for five straight years. According to a survey conducted by the Korea Creative Content Agency of 3,000 [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Display Co., a major display panel maker in South Korea, will distribute transparent safety umbrellas for free as a way to prevent traffic accidents involving children on rainy days. The transparent safety umbrellas will be distributed to first and second grade students at about 170 elementary schools around [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Dolls that were seen in the hands of children of Afghan “persons of special merit” and their families when they arrived at Incheon International Airport last week are gaining media attention after they turned out to have been distributed by the South Korean Ministry of Justice to comfort them. [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korea Museum in Tokyo’s Shinjuku district is opening the ‘Korea-Japan Children’s Drawing Exchange Exhibition.’ Elementary school teachers from South Korea and Japan, who by coincidence met at the Independence Hall of Korea in 2011, joined together to engage in a five-year exchange of letters and drawings between children [...]
SEOUL, July 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Over the past several years, cholesterol levels in South Korean children and teenagers have surged, with about one third suffering from dyslipidemia. A joint research team from the Gangnam Severance Hospital and the Yongin Severance Hospital analyzed cholesterol levels for 8,731 teenagers between the ages of 10 and 18, [...]
SEOUL, May 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Nearly 1 in 5 children under the age of 5 in North Korea suffer from stunted growth, and the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic is likely to exacerbate the trend for some years to come, an international report showed Wednesday. The child stunting rate in the impoverished state was [...]