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81% of doctors, “I will vaccinate my family against shingles”
8 of 10 doctors(81.3%) answered they did or will vaccinate their families against shingles. Since 7 of 10 doctors(71.5) answered they did or will vaccinate themselves against the disease, it has shown high interests i...
Supreme Court remands original trial “dentists can perform Botox procedures”
On the 21st, the Supreme Court(Chief Justice Seung-tae Yang of the Supreme Court, Justice Sang-ok Park of the Supreme Court) remanded the 1st and 2nd rulings that ‘the medical activity of dentists to operate Botox pro...
What are doctors’ opinions over mortality risk issue of ‘Yasmin’?
When it came to recently-issued suspicion on the death related to the birth control pill, ‘Yasmin,’ domestic medical personnel advised it needs to be carefully approached.
They said since it is clinically useful as c...
“Leaked patient information” vs “collection of information for statistic process”
The prosecution conducted the examination of witnesses on IMS Health, Ginus and the Korea Pharmaceutical Information Center that were accused of violating the Personal Information Protection Law in regards of leaking ...
North Korea’s medical system lacks in basic infrastructure
What will be the North Korea’s current medical situation which has been isolated for 70 years?
At the AHKU’s(www.ahku.kr) Autumn Academic Symposium which was held at the Yoo Il-han Hall of Yonsei University’s Avison ...
Radiology doctors file civil suits against Siemens
Doctors who opened radiological hospitals and clinics are preparing for a lawsuit against Siemens, a global medical device company.
When selling CTs and MRIs to domestic hospitals and clinics so far, Siemens has inse...
What are the Brexit’s influences to foreign patient attraction project?
Last February when it has been 8 years since the foreign patient attraction project started by the Amendment to the Medical Law in 2009, Medical Korea Support Center opened the service.
Thus, we were able to have con...
Vaccination fee for NIP confirmed at KRW 18,200
The vaccine fee for the National Immunization Program was confirmed at KRW 18,200. Consultation fess are separated. In addition, vaccine fees are KRW 62,040 for Gardasil and KRW 56,270 for Cervarix.
The Ministry of F...
Asan Medical Center performs 5 thousand liver transplant cases
Asan Medical Center which now leads the global liver transplant through passing down liver transplants to top-class medical institutes made another achievement of 5,000 liver transplant cases.
On the 21st, the liver ...
Hypertension occurs more in women than men after 70
The National Health Insurance Corporation(Chairperson Sang-cheol Sung) announced to create and open the ‘Blood Pressure & Sugar Data of National Health Examination,’ which can be used for health-related services to im...
