SEOUL, April 4 (Korea Bizwire) — While factors like aging, environmental change and elevated levels of fine dust are driving up the risk of contracting illness, the fiscal burden of receiving healthcare is also continuing to rise with new medical technology and equipment being used in medical treatment. This represents a real dilemma for households [...]
SEOUL, March 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Stressed out and understaffed, all the while burdened under corrupted mentoring practices that are more closely identified with bullying than teaching, South Korean nurses are working to treat patients under poor conditions. In a past survey of 11,662 nurses and workers in the healthcare industry carried out by the [...]
SEOUL, March 16 (Korea Bizwire) — More patients in need of a pulmonary transplant may soon breathe easier, as measures by the government are set to permit lung donations by living donors and thereby increase the supply of available transplantable lungs. Until now, lung transplantation surgery was only possible when lungs harvested from brain dead [...]
SEOUL, March 15 (Korea Bizwire) — A study conducted by the Ministry of Health and Welfare has found that the average monthly wage of South Korean physicians was 13.04 million won in 2016, an amount 4.6 times and 8.7 times higher than the average monthly salaries of full-time laborers (2.79 million won) and non-regular workers [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 8 (Korea Bizwire) – An ad hoc presidential healthcare subcommittee has announced a medical diagnostic and consulting system which can predict the onset of illness based on hospital records, prescription history, one’s individual genetic database and information on day-to-day habits and behaviors will begin development. This system is included in the subcommittee’s core [...]