SEOUL, Sept. 3 (Korea Bizwire) – When the Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndrome swept Korea earlier this year, Samsung Medical Center was at the center of the epidemic, not as a healing center for the deadly disease, but as the source of the outbreak. Among the 186 patients who contracted MERS, almost half (91) were infected at the [...]
SEOUL, July 3 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Group is planning to provide various measures to help overcome the economic recession caused by the outbreak of the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS). On July 2, the largest business group in Korea announced that it had come up with various plans to boost domestic demand that has been [...]
SEOUL, June 23 (Korea Bizwire) – The Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) is spreading nationwide, with 175 confirmed patients and a death toll of 27 as of June 23, and only Incheon is free from the deadly virus. Although its neighboring cities and counties like Gimpo, Bucheon and Siheung have MERS patients, the second largest port city [...]
SEOUL, June 8 (Korea Bizwire) – After the government identified all of the hospitals affected by the deadly Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) on June 7, hospitals opened and carried out normal operations. However, their number of patient visits dropped precipitously. Samsung Medical Center in Seoul, one of the affected hospitals, was almost empty on June 7. [...]
SEOUL, April 13 (Korea Bizwire) – A scientific study has discovered a correlation between air pollution such as fine dust and ozone, and an increase in depression and suicide. Professor Kim Do-gwan at the Neuropsychiatry Center of Samsung Medical Center argued that PM-10 increases depression and raises suicide rates. A research team led by Kim analyzed the [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — A stroke warning cap, which was one of the C-Lab projects selected by Samsung Electronics at the beginning of last year, is moving closer to commercialization. The C-Lab is a system that supports the commercialization of new products by adopting ideas proposed by members of management and staff. According [...]