SEOUL, Jan. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – The Ministry of Health and Welfare announced Wednesday that it is preparing voluntary guidelines for medical practitioners to simplify their attire, a measure that it believes will help to prevent the spread of infection. The ministry and the Korean Society for Healthcare-associated Infection Control Prevention have recently prepared a [...]
SUNCHANG, South Korea, Aug. 31 (Korea Bizwire) – About 200 people have been infected with hepatitis C in southern South Korea, an official said Wednesday, prompting health authorities to conduct an epidemiological investigation. Some of the people had received dental treatment from unlicensed dentists in Sunchang, some 360 kilometers south of Seoul. The local official [...]
SEOUL, June 8 (Korea Bizwire) – According to Korea’s Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) and the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning (MSIFP) Monday, the latter’s BioNano Health Guard Research Center and Genbody have developed a test kit that can determine the presence of the Zika virus in just 20 minutes. The presence [...]
SEOUL, June 3 (Korea Bizwire) – A South Korean research team said Friday it has isolated a live Zika virus from a local patient’s semen, showing the possibility of sexual transmission. The 43-year-old man developed such symptoms as fever, chill and eye pain about a week after returning from Brazil in March where he was bitten [...]
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 [...]
DAEJEON, Oct. 16 (Korea Bizwire) – A Korean research team has developed a medical device that can check if a patient is infected with viruses such as MERS (Middle East Respiratory Syndrome) or Ebola within an hour. The Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials (KIMM) announced that a research team led by Doctor Kwon Oh-won of the [...]