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Hospitals overcharge customers
It is strongly recommended that customers carefully check their hospital bills as some hospitals in Seoul have allegedly overcharged customers.
If your bill seems to high there's a good chance you may have been ove...
Financial woes add to stress of terminal illness
Financial woes add to stress of patients suffering from terminal prostate cancer, according to a recent survey. On average, it costs a Korean patient more than 20 million won per year, which is four times high than th...
Novo Nordisk holds Leadership in Changing Diabetes Forum
Novo Nordisk Korea said it has recently hosted the Leadership in Changing Diabetes by inviting local distinguished healthcare professions in diabetes.
Diabetes could become the worst pandemic of the 21st century. T...
8 out of pregnant women take iron supplements
79.5 percent of pregnant women took iron supplements for their better health, according to a survey on September 5.
According to Medipost, a leading biotech company based in Seoul, 73 percent of a total of 426 preg...
KHA to oppose model project for prescriptions in generic names.
The Korea Hospital Association (KHA) announced an official statement on Aug. 28 about the issue of the government's model project for the prescriptions written in generic drug names, covering that the government inten...
A survey saying 4 in 10 diabetic patients found family link.
A survey sponsored by Bayer Healthcare reported that 38.5% of diabetic patients found a family link (relatives are excluded).
The survey was conducted for 143 diabetic patients by questionnaires who are supported ...
One in every 5 teenagers is smoking, KCDC says
One out of every five 18-year olds is smoking, the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on August 6.
The finding was made public in an online survey of 80,000 teenagers ranging from middle school f...
Genematrix gets top patent technology award
Genematrix, a local biopharmaceutical company, received the top prize of this year's Patent Technology Award, selected by the Korean Intellectual Property Office, for recognition of developing a new method - restricti...
NMC rejects to extend prescriptions written in generic names.
The National Medical Center (NMC) said that the Center would never consider the model program of the prescriptions written in generic drug names to extend more therapies as planned to start from coming Sept.
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Korea and EucoMed consider an industrial exchange program.
Korea and EU have moved an exchange program for the medical device and equipment industries.
Secretary general Maurice Wagner of EucoMed and the chief commissioner and Ms. Choi Eun-jin of EU chambers of commerce i...
