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Asan Medical Center opens Korea’s first imaging core lab, ‘AIM’
On the 16th, Asan Medical Center held a symposium to celebrate the ‘Selection of the Clinical Trial Development Project for High-Tech Conversance and Opening of AIM(Asan Image Metrics)’ at Asan Medical Center Asan Ins...
MOU for cooperation between Korea-Japan medical device associations
The Korea Medical Devices Industry Association(Chairman Hui Hwang, KMDIA) announced it signed a memorandum of understanding(MOU) for co-development of the two countries’ medical device industry with the Japan Federati...
Korea Psoriasis Association ‘welcomes’ application of the exceptional health insurance benefits on severe psoriasis
The Korea Psoriasis Association(Chairman Sung-Ki Kim) gave a welcome to the Ministry of Health and Welfare’s decision on application of the exceptional health insurance benefits for severe psoriasis.
On the 25th of A...
Main cause of nasal congestion is ‘allergic rhinitis’ for nasal spray users
GSK Consumer Healthcare(GSK CH, CEO Soo-Kyung Kim) announced the respondents chose allergic rhinitis as a cause of nasal congestion in a survey on people who recently used nasal spray.
In order to check awareness and...
Pharmaceutical distribution industry encountering emergency in supplying products early May
Having the first week of May with alternating holidays and weekdays, pharmaceutical distribution companies encountered an emergency in supplying pharmaceutical products.
According to the industry concerned on the 24t...
Medical services exported to 20 countries, China, U.S. and Vietnam for the most
The Ministry of Health and Welfare(Minister Jin-Yup Jung) and the Korea Health Industry Development Institute(President Young-Chan Lee) released the analysis result of the ‘2016 Overseas Expansion Status’ on the 6th a...
Local clinics start to use GPO to save about KRW 3.6 billion in a year of 2016
Recently starting from large general hospitals, the successful cases of GPO(Group Purchasing Organization) is moving to local clinics as well.
According to EZmedicom, the 12 local clinics which consigned the purchasi...
90% of the patients accidentally found out glaucoma having no symptoms
90% of glaucoma patients in the 40s answered that they accidentally found out the disease via medical checkup or visiting to medical institute for another disease.
In order to understand awareness over glaucoma, the ...
Only 48.7% of young adults having sexual experience use birth control
It was observed more than a half of 10 young adults who have sexual experience practice no birth control at all.
The Ob/Gyn Professor Dong-Yoon Lee’ research team at Samsung Medical Center revealed the analysis resul...
Europe decides to tighten up radiation dose standards, what about Korea?
Advanced countries, like Europe, suggested opinions to tighten up the radiation dose standard on medical devices, such as CT and X-ray, and develop medical devices which follow the standard.
At the KIMES 2017(16th to...
