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65% of hospital patients found pre hypertension.
Pfizer Korea disclosed their field survey on July 11 covering 10,422 patients in 101 clinics across the nation from Dec. 2005 to April 2006, finding that one in 5 patients was in a pre stage of hypertension, showing 6...
Turf war in use of CT
The Seoul High Court's June 30 ruling that the use of computed tomography (CT) does not fall under the scope of medical treatment by Oriental medicine doctors is rekindling a full-blown turf war between the Korea Medi...
EAM program for Korean asthmatic patients to launch soon.
The Korea Society of Asthma and Allergy (KSAA) has developed a diagnosis and treatment guideline called "EAM" (Easy Asthma Management) based on the 3 year study results from 2003, covering an accurate and easy check o...
Seminar on co-existence of NHI and private medical insurance.
Korea Health Information Policy Institute, a juridical corporation, plans to hold the 1/2 of 2006 seminar on the health and medical policy titled "How to co-exist between the National Health Insurance and Civil privat...
75% of total NHI payment for the clinic medical institution.
According to "Composite ratio of clinic specialty in 1Q of 2006" released by the HIRA, the top 5 specialized clinics charged 75.2% of the total NHI payment for the clinics sectors during the first quarter of this year...
Yonsei Medical Center in strategic alliance with U.S. MD Anderson.
Yonsei Medical Center has agreed with MD Anderson, an American cancer specialized medical institute for the clinical studies in the new drug R&D.
May 11 Yonsei Medical Center made a sister relationship between two ...
Survey reveals medical jobs most frustrated when treated in prejudice.
What the Korean physicians are mostly skeptical and frustrated about their jobs was when they were not fairly treated in a social prejudice, a survey revealed.
A survey conducted by "Medical Job" portal website (ww...
KMA to investigate 3,900 drugs proven of its bio equivalency.
The Korea Medical Association urged immediately to stop the bio equivalency test, which was in controversial on its test manipulation.
The KMA said on May 9 in the statement of "the KMA position to the manipulate...
Prof. Kim to nominate a head of multinational clinical study.
Prof. Kim Seon-woo of Sungkyunkwan Univ. Medical College Kangbuk Samsung hospital, was nominated as the chief of the multinational clinical studies (145 centers from 8 countries including Korea and the United States) ...
Dr. Chang Dong-ik won KMA presidency election.
Dr. Chang Dong-ik was elected the 34th president of KMA. The KMA election council completed to collect and count the ballot at 2:30 a.m. on March 18 and announced that candidate Chang Dong-ik, the election No. 3, took...
