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Medical expenses for gout, rapidly increased to KRW 59.4 billion in a year
As the number of patients with extremely painful gout was significantly increased, the year-long medical expenses for the disease reached KRW 59.4 billion. In particular, most of the patients were men in 30s.
The Nat...
Lower income group tends more to experience overburdened medical expenses
It was known the ratio of medical expenses(patient-sharing amounts) to living expenses of Korean families have continuously been increased and the lower income and more chronic disease patients they have, the higher c...
“Bubble in attracting foreign patients will pop soon”
Although the government is willing to maintain and expand the Korean healthcare wave by preparing a window of general support on foreign patients and pushing forward with the medical institution selection system, a co...
‘Symposiums’ for doctors get popular, “The drug is ok to use”
Compared to the past, launching periods of treatments have been quicker. Launches of generics and complexes after a new drug have generated a lot of options for patients to cure their diseases, and doctors have been r...
‘Still high’ antibiotic prescription rates on AOM for children
Although antibiotic prescriptions of acute otitis media(AOM) for children have narrowly decreased, it was observed that they are still high.
The Health Insurance Review & Assessment Service(Director Myung-sae Sohn, H...
Korean stem cell treatment technology acquired approval in Japan for the first time
R-Japan Co., Ltd., a Japanese affiliated company of Nature Cell, announced on the 11th that Nishihara Medical Clinic acquired approval of stem cell treatment for critical limb ischemia diseases, which includes Burger’...
Government’s best effort on telemedicine
The Saenuri Party has aggressively made moves to pass so-called the Economic Stimulus Act, such as the amendment to the Pharmaceutical Affair Law, which contains legal bases to push forward telemedicine, the Internati...
The government to allow hospitals to establish medical device companies
The government is planning to invest funds over KRW 50 billion for the next 5 years to nurture the medical device industry. In order to encourage participation of hospitals, it has allowed them to establish an own med...
Nano-fusion industry to become a new growth industry
The entire nano-fusion industry has become a new growth industry as recording approximately KRW 138.7 trillion sales in 2013, increased by 6.6% compared with the year before; for instance, sales of the nano-biomedical...
1 of 5 patients takes ‘medical trip’ to larger cities
A trend of patients to leave their residence to take medical treatment from hospitals in a large city has been fixed.
When it comes to the development of the past 4 years, in particular, it was observed the ratio of ...
