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KPA, “It’s improper to discuss reorganization of pharmacy university curriculum”
When it comes to the academic circles’ argument that the pharmacy college system should be changed to a 6-year system, the Korean Medical Association(President Moo-Jin Choo, KMA) expressed an opinion “Since it is impr...
Rapid increase of uninsured medical expenses brings up necessity to extend insurance coverage
The National Health Insurance Service(President Sang-Cheol Seong) released a result of the ‘Composition and Status for Uninsured Medical Expenses at General Hospitals or Higher-Class Medical Institutes’ research.
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One voice from experts and political circles for “Amendment to Medical Law for dental hygienists”
The National Assembly’s ruling and opposing parties, the dental field and experts raised one voice for necessity to amend the Medical Law to ‘make dental hygienist medical personnel.’ Particularly, since the current l...
“Safety of cervical cancer vaccination was reconfirmed”
The Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention(Director Jung-Ki Suck) held the Special Committee for Compensation of Vaccination Damages(Chairman Jung-Gon Kim, Seoul National University College of Medicine) on t...
46% of local clinics will receive benefits of tax reduction
The Korean Medical Association(President Moo-Jin Choo) gave an active welcome towards the fact the amendment to the Special Tax Treatment Control Law which includes an article to include clinic-level medical institute...
What types of disease foreigners go to hospitals for?
Along with the increase of international exchange, the number of foreigners living in Korea has increased every year. The entire number of foreigners living Korea was 1.71 million in 2015; among them, the number of fo...
Extreme price gaps for uninsured medical expenses
The Health Insurance Review & Assessment Service(President Myung-Sei Sohn, hereinafter referring to ‘HIRA’) will extensively reveal the ‘2016 Uninsured Medical Service Expenses by Medical Institute’ from the 1st of De...
“Medicine is not Go(game)… AI can be an assistance knowing medical terms.”
After Gil Medical Center implemented an artificial intelligence(AI) system, Watson, for the first time in Korea, several university hospitals have started to review adopting it with rosy hope.
However, an argument w...
Large differences of cancer incidence in different regions
It was analyzed cancer incidence rates in different cities, districts and provinces vary from double to 15 times higher.
The Ministry of Health and Welfare(Minister Jin-Yup Jung) and Korea Central Cancer Registry(Nat...
BMS, “Targeted combination therapies are the best for cancer patients”
BMS Pharmaceutical recommended combined targeted therapies as the best treatment for cancer patients, and announced a plan to continue and extend researches related to this.
On the 16th, BMS Pharmaceutical Korea rev...
