SEOUL, Dec. 17 (Korea Bizwire) – The National Health Insurance Service reported on December 16 that cataract surgery was the most commonly performed medical procedure among South Koreans last year. According to the “2023 Major Surgery Statistical Yearbook,” 1.66 million patients underwent close to 2 million procedures across 34 major surgical categories. These figures represent a [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of cancer surgeries decreased significantly in the first five months after a junior doctors’ strike began in February, data from the Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service (HIRA) showed Monday. Between February and June, the number of patients who underwent cancer surgeries at upper-class general hospitals nationwide [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Two major general hospitals in Seoul were set to suspend outpatient clinics and surgeries Tuesday, as their senior doctors began taking a weekly day off amid a protracted walkout by junior doctors in protest of the government’s medical reform. Emergency rooms and inpatient care will remain in place at [...]
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 [...]