SEOUL, March 9 (Korea Bizwire) — A report published by South Korean medical researchers has revealed that a simple test consisting of getting up from a chair and walking for a short distance can be used to assess a person’s risk of dementia. The research team composed of doctors from SNU Hospital and Samsung Medical [...]
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, July 7 (Korea Bizwire) — A 23-year-old named Anne Muhammed from Egypt works as a medical interpreter for Arabic at Seoul National University (SNU) Hospital’s International Healthcare Center. She had been looking forward to the 6th of July, which marks the end of a month-long fasting period for Ramadan, the ninth month of the Muslim [...]