SEOUL, Jun. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Medical professors serving as senior doctors at three major hospitals of Yonsei University were set to launch an indefinite walkout Thursday as little progress has been made in efforts to resolve a monthslong conflict over a medical reform plan. Professors at Severance Hospital, Gangnam Severance Hospital and Yongin Severance [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 4 (Korea Bizwire) –Seoul Asan Medical Center has been recognized as the highest-rated hospital in South Korea according to a recent evaluation by the American magazine Newsweek, ranking 22nd globally. The evaluation, conducted in collaboration with the global research firm Statista, surveyed over 85,000 healthcare professionals across 30 countries to compile the ‘World’s [...]
SEOUL, June 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Severance Hospital, a general hospital in western Seoul, announced on Tuesday that it had reached the 30,000 milestone in cumulative robot surgeries for the first time in the world as a single medical institution. After it succeeded in a surgical operation using a surgical robot in 2005, the hospital [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 14 (Korea Bizwire) – Revenue worries in the aftermath of healthcare reforms dubbed “Moon Jae-in Care” are keeping hospitals’ coffers closed even as the government takes pains to encourage the medical sector to invest in new infrastructure. After initially earmarking 390 billion won for a medical facility in “city of the future” Songdo [...]
SEOUL, Nov.13 (Korea Bizwire) – Yonsei University has revealed that Psy, the international entertainer who will be making a comeback next month, donated 500 million won to Severance Hospital’s children’s ward. With the funds, a ‘Psy Treatment Room’ was created. According to officials at the hospital, the treatment room built with the funds donated by [...]
SEOUL, April 7 (Korea Bizwire) – It looks exactly like a prop from a sci-fi movie, but in reality, it’s nothing more than a custom-designed splint. Mark Lippert, the U.S. ambassador to Korea, recently posted a picture on Facebook of the device he’s using to help recuperate from injuries sustained to his left hand and [...]
SEOUL, March 10 (Korea Bizwire) – As Severance Hospital, which has earned worldwide attention recently by treating US Ambassador Mark Lippert, stresses that it is the legitimate successor of Jejungwon, Korea’s first national western-style hospital, Seoul National University Hospital, its main rival, suffers in silence. In a briefing session explaining the physical condition of Ambassador [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — The Severance Hospital of the Yonsei University Health System said on August 28 that it has developed a mobile app to manage patients with trachoma jointly with KT. The “Trachoma App” can allow medical field workers to check the conditions of the eye disease with simple instructions. This is expected to come [...]
SEOUL, May 22 (Korea Bizwire) – Recently, the International Copper Association donated some medical products made of antimicrobial copper to the Yonsei Childhood Cancer Center in the Severance Hospital Shinchon. The antimicrobial copper is an alloy of more than 65 percent of copper which shows strong sterilizing power against the harmful microbes like super bacteria [...]