SEOUL, May 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Phthalate plasticizer, which can hinder human endocrine systems, has been discovered in toy electric vehicles for children. The Korea Consumer Agency (KCA) conducted an investigation into 12 different models of electric vehicles in the market, and found standard-exceeding levels of phthalate plasticizer in four of them. The four models were [...]
SEOUL, Jan5. (Korea Bizwire) – Research indicates that loneliness is as bad for one’s health as a lack of exercise and diabetes. The English journal Daily Mail reported that a research team at the University of North Carolina discovered that relationships with others during adolescent and senior years influence one’s health greatly after studying the [...]
SEOUL, Nov.26 (Korea Bizwire) – Research indicates that the reason loneliness has a bad influence on health is because it evokes change in the immune system. Medical News Today reported that psychology Professor John Cacioppo of the University of Chicago announced the results of a study indicating that loneliness changes the gene expression of white [...]
SEOUL, Nov.19 (Korea Bizwire) – A new study shows that people who drink between three and five cups of coffee every day live longer than those who don’t. According to a paper published in ‘Circulation’, an international medical journal, by a research team at Harvard University’s School of Public Health, those who drink three to [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – Research shows that those who are able to choose how much they work are healthier than those who work less or more than the number of hours they wish to work. On average, employees worked an average of an hour and half more than they wished. The gap between [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 23 (Korea Bizwire) – ‘Active Seniors’, people in their 50s and 60s who enjoy doing the things they want to do after they retire, have reported that their health and what they do with their lives when they are ‘old’ are the most important things. A majority of them did not consider themselves [...]
SEOUL, July 10 (Korea Bizwire) Every summer, many young women go on a strict diet in hopes of wearing a bikini to show off their hot body at the beach. But there seems to be a downside other than the painful hunger. According to the Health Insurance Review & Assessment Service(HIRAS), many teenage girls come [...]
“Anyone drinking ten cups of green tea every day for a long time can delay onset of cancer for up to seven years. For men who drank ten cups of tea (120 ml per cup) for ten years, an average of 7.3 years of cancer occurrence was delayed. For women, the same effect was observed [...]
SEOUL, Sep. 20 (Korea Bizwire) – Surprisingly enough, it appears that patients in their 20s and 30s with Crohn’s disease are soaring high in number. On September 18, according to Congressman Kim Jae-won of Health and Welfare Committee who analyzed data from the Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service, last year the number of patients in [...]
SEOUL, South Korea, April 11, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) – The Korean government Korea Health Industry Development Institute announced that it has successfully completed the Russian physician training program for six months from October 1, 2013 to March 30, 2014. The trainees from Russia were selected by a Korean professor. It was their first time being [...]