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Removal of ‘induced abortion’ from immoral medical practice won’t be easy
While it gets controversy ‘induced abortion’ was included as an immoral medical practice for the demonstration project for the expert evaluation system, it seems it will not completely be removed.
This is because the...
It takes average 2 years to identify rheumatoid arthritis
Understandings on rheumatoid arthritis has widely been spread recently, but it was observed it takes a lot of time to get right treatments for it.
At the Press Conference of Gold Ring Campaign on the 12th, the Korean...
KAPP strongly opposes to ‘domperidone’ side effects
The Korean Association of Pediatric Practitioners(President Hyun-Taek Lim) announced a written opinion to oppose the Assemblyperson Hye-Sook Jeon’s(The Minjoo Parity) argument which indicated risks of side effects rel...
Issue created on free influenza vaccination for children due to shortage
Implemented this year, the free influenza vaccination project for children under the age of 5 has made slow progress.
Although the ruling and opposing parties decided to implement the project a little early and chang...
Noisy circles of clinics over revealing prices of uninsured drugs
While the Ministry of Health and Welfare announced measures to push forward with a plan for clinic-level medical institutes to reveal uninsured drugs using sample surveys, the circle of clinics has poured out complain...
NHIS’s benefits exceed KRW 24 trillion in 1st half, Big 5 took 7% of the total
In the 1st half of this year, the amount of health insurance benefits the National Health Insurance Service paid to medical institutes exceeded KRW 24 trillion. The amount was increased by 8.6% compared to the same pe...
‘Specialized hospitals’ to be established for 500 thousand rare disease patients
The plan to establish hospitals specializing in rare diseases is going to be visualized. A discussion to utilize subsidiary cooperative hospitals with regional base hospitals is currently conducted.
Manager Hyun-youn...
No. of acne patients reaches 110 thousand people
The number of patients who got treatments for acne was 110 thousand people last year, increased by 10% compared to the year before.
Its medical expenses were KRW 7.6 billion increased by KRW 1.1 billion, and a part o...
Medical industry shocked by Supreme Court’s ruling on Fraxel Laser procedures
The medical industry was shocked as the Supreme Court made a ruling that dentists’ cosmetic laser procedures are lawful as well as their cosmetic botox procedures.
On July 21, 2016, the Supreme Court ruled cancella...
Great success at surgical symposium, avoiding ‘THAAD’ issue
While the relationship between Korea and China became cold due to the THAAD installation issue, it was suggested the issue might impact various academic symposiums in Korea, such as a low participation rate of Chinese...
