SEOUL, Sept. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Among the obesity treatment drugs prescribed in South Korea, Phentermine, known as a weight loss pill, has the highest number of reported side effects cases. A joint research team from Kyung Hee University’s College of Pharmacy and Ajou University’s College of Medicine and College of Pharmacy analyzed 13,766 cases [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea saw reports of medication side effects gain about 2 percent in 2018, although their rate of growth slowed sharply from the prior year, data showed Wednesday. Local health authorities handled 257,438 cases of side effects from taking medicine last year, up 1.9 percent from the previous year, [...]
CHANGWON, August 3 (Korea Bizwire) – According to statistics from the National Health Insurance Service (NHIS), the number of individuals suffering from insomnia in South Korea has been growing steadily over the past five years, from 289,526 in 2010 to 455,886 in 2015. Of note, Koreans in their 40s accounted for two thirds of the total [...]