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Cervical cancer vaccines will be vaccinated for free on female children at 12
From the coming June, the 2-time free vaccination of cervical cancer targeting female teenagers at the age of 12 will be introduced with a 6-month interval.
The Ministry of Health and Welfare(Minister Jin-yup Jung) ...
Korean doctors have 3-times higher cancer occurrence
Generally, medical doctors are thought to be healthier than others because they have a wider range of medical knowledge. However, according to a U.S. research, medical doctors who tend to work late were observed to ha...
“Dentists’ botox procedures are unlicensed medical actionss”
While illegality of dentists’ botox procedures will be finally judged by the Supreme Court, the Korean Medical Association(KMA) expressed an opinion that the judgments in the 1st and 2nd trials which found guilty on d...
Re-categorization of thyroid cancer in US triggers ‘excessive diagnosis’ in Korea
It seems the U.S. movement of changing the name of thyroid cancer – follicular thyroid cancer must be called as tumor, not cancer – will again trigger the Korean ‘thyroid cancer’s excessive diagnosis’ issue.
Univers...
7 of 10 people in Korea acquire inaccurate cancer information via Internet
It was observed 7 of 10 ordinary people in Korea acquire cancer-related information not via doctors or public institutes, but the Internet with overflown inaccurate information. This also occurred even for families of...
“Reducing pressure of medical expenses” picked as prioritized issue to address
The Research Institute For Healthcare Policy(Head Jae-wook Choi), Korean Medical Association(President Moo-jin Choo), announced data that compared healthcare-related pledges of each political party facing the 4.13 gen...
KMA, "We will continue lawsuits til the end”
When it comes to the Association of Korean Medicine(AKOM) which changed its English name to a similar one of the Korean Medical Association(KMA), the KMA is planning to push forward with lawsuits against it.
The AKO...
“Japanese ‘adverse reactions of cervical cancer vaccines’ have no base”
The Korean Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology and the Korean Society of Gynecologic Oncology has recently announced the recently arguments proposed by some Japanese women about cervical cancer vaccines(HPV vaccines)...
‘Clinic management is even harder than what was shown in statistics’
The medical association has started to prepare for the insurance cost negotiation. Its insurance cost negotiation group plans to focus on the reality of medical clinics in trouble for the negotiation.
The Korean Med...
Obligation of latent-tuberculosis examinations
The government announced it held the 80th National Policy Coordination Meeting hosted by Prime Minister Kyo-ahn Hwang on the 24th, and discussed and confirmed the ‘Execution Plan for Tuberculosis-Free Country’ and ‘20...
