SEOUL, Sept. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean medical community has reacted strongly to a recent Supreme Court ruling involving a surgeon who faced legal consequences for delaying surgery on a patient with a small bowel obstruction due to professional negligence. In the past month, the top court upheld the decision regarding an individual referred [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Cataract surgery was most widely conducted surgical procedure in South Korea last year, data showed Wednesday. The National Health Insurance Service reported that last year a total of 1.68 million people underwent 33 types of major surgerical procedures, excluding plastic surgery. Cataract surgery was the most common type of [...]
SEOUL, June 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Jeonghan, a member of K-pop group Seventeen, has received an operation for an elbow injury, the group’s management agency said Friday. “Jeonghan recently visited the hospital due to increased pain in his elbow, and it has been determined that surgery was needed, which he received Wednesday,” Pledis Entertainment said [...]
GWANGJU, May 31 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korea Photonics Technology Institute said Monday it has developed a free-space augmented reality (AR) system that allows examination of the exact location and shape of breast cancer tissue through the naked eye, without using separate AR glasses or other supplementary devices. The technology, developed jointly by the institute, [...]
SEOUL, April 23 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean medical team has succeeded in implanting electrodes in the brain of an epilepsy patient using a surgical robot for the first time in the country. Severance Hospital said Thursday that it had successfully found and removed the areas causing epilepsy for a 10-year-old girl after implanting [...]
SEOUL, April 6 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean research team is drawing attention after developing a suture thread-type measuring sensor that can be implanted in the body. A joint research team from the Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich announced on Monday the development of [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — The scars left after breast cancer surgery are among the factors that greatly worsen quality of life for patients. Fortunately, however, the areolar incision technique is emerging as an alternative that leaves almost no scars. A recent study showed that the areolar incision technique has no significant differences in [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Suga, a member of K-pop megastar BTS, will take a break from official activities, including promotion for an upcoming album, to fully recover from a recent shoulder surgery, the band’s agency said Friday. “Suga underwent surgery to repair his torn shoulder labrum on November 3,” Big Hit Entertainment said [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — An Army non-commissioned officer underwent gender reassignment surgery last year and has expressed a desire to continue to serve in the military as a female solider, officers said Thursday. The serviceperson, whose identity was withheld, visited a foreign country while on furlough last year for the surgery. After an [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — An increasing number of breast cancer patients, after discovering a tumor in one of their breasts, are resorting to preventative surgeries to remove both breasts or ovaries to prevent tumors from spreading. Preventive surgeries have been on the rise ever since Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie revealed that she received [...]