SEOUL, Sept. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – The recent series of court rulings recognizing the use of ultrasound and electroencephalogram (EEG) diagnostic devices by Doctors of Korean Medicine (or Korean Medicine Doctor (KMD)) has reignited the ongoing dispute between KMDs and conventional medical doctors. This conflict has escalated to a critical point, exacerbated by the issue of [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — The Supreme Court said Friday that doctors of traditional Korean medicine, also known as Oriental medicine doctors, cannot be punished for using brain wave sensors, a modern medical device, to diagnose Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s diseases. The top court’s ruling came after a Korean medicine doctor was slapped with a [...]
SUWON, Sept. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Doctors from the Gyeonggi Korean Medicine Association had a 10 percent success rate last year with a special treatment program for women who were struggling to conceive. According to the association, 270 women were provided with Korean medicine treatments such as liquid medicine, acupuncture, and moxibustion. The association was [...]
JECHEON, Aug. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — The city of Jecheon, central South Korea, will play host to an international exhibition focused on the Korean medicine and biotech industry in September in a bid to develop the Korean herbal medicine-based biotech industry into a future growth engine, organizers said Thursday. The upcoming World Korean Medicine-Bio Industry [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — As artificial intelligence-based medical diagnosis systems such as IBM’s Watson for Oncology are being increasingly adopted in the medical industry, a South Korean research team has announced plans to develop its own diagnosis system for Oriental medicine. The research team, led by professor of Korean Medicine Kwon Yeong-gyu at Pusan [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – Korea’s continued use of oriental medicine has been a controversial subject for quite some time, particularly with certain western, or modern, medical science communities discrediting their traditional medical counterparts over the reliability of their treatments. The debate became heated again after a 27-month-old suffered complete hair loss, including eyebrows, supposedly [...]