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Aug 10, 2018 Health

[Weekender] What effect does boyangsik have on your body?

Oriental medicine expert introduces what summer food to eat and avoid according to body type

Korea moves to enlarge warning images on cigarette packs

The health ministry is pushing to enlarge the size of graphic warning images on cigarette packs, officials said Sunday, a move aimed at discouraging people from smoking.The Ministry of Health and Welfare said it plans to announce the measure in September or October to send a stronger message to smokers by expanding the size of the warning images from the current 50 percent of the package's exterior to 70 percent.Currently, the size of the warning photos must cover more than 30 percent of both si

Jul 29, 2018
Health
[Weekender] What blood types are really about

'Blood types important in blood transfusion but exact role of antigens remain scientifically unproved with no proof of correlation with diseases’

Jul 27, 2018
Health
[Graphic News] Cigarette sales down 1.6% in H1 on campaign, higher prices

　Sales of cigarettes in Korea declined 1.6 percent in the first six months of the year compared to a year earlier, due to a government-led anti-smoking campaign and higher prices, data showed.　Korean smokers purchased 1.68 billion 20-cigarette packs in the first half of the year, compared with the previous year’s 1.71 billion packs, according to data compiled by the Finance Ministry.　Starting in January 2015, Korea increased the price of cigarettes by 80 percent, from 2,500 won ($2.20) per pack

Jul 18, 2018
Health
Korean menstrual cup crashes Tumblbug, reaches crowdfunding target in under half hour

Eve Cup, the third menstrual cup to gain the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety’s approval for sales in Korea, was heatedly received on Monday when it launched on social crowdfunding platform Tumblbug.The only campaign to begin at half past noon on the day, the launch of Eve Cup crashed the Tumblbug site due to excessive traffic. Once back online, Eve Cup reached its target of 10 million won ($8,900) within 25 minutes and twice the target amount within six hours. 　As of noon, Tuesday, more than 88

Jul 18, 2018
Health
Be careful when using handheld fans: ministry

The Ministry of the Interior and Safety has issued a safety warning over the use of mini electric fans, a popular item in Korea during summer. “People often overlook safety when using portable fans that are small and convenient,” a senior official at the Safety Ministry said in a statement Friday, urging people to be careful. Between 2015 and 2018, a total of 40 accidents involving mini fans were reported, data from the Korea Consumer Agency’s Consumer Injury Surveillance System revealed. Photo

Jul 14, 2018
Health
Korea’s smallest preemie survivor heads home

.A baby girl who was born after just 24 weeks gestation, weighing 302 grams, was released from the hospital Thursday after spending nearly five months in the neonatal intensive care unit, Asan Medical Center said. During the course of treatment, the baby’s weight reportedly dipped below 295 grams -- barely more than a 250 ml can of soda -- but has since increased to a healthy weight of 3 kilograms. Calling the baby “Love,” the team of doctors said the baby’s survival is a miracle. It is extremel

Jul 13, 2018
Health
Wake-up call about impact of drinking morning coffee

Over time, coffee has become a universal, and quick, antidote to morning sleepiness. In Korea, roughly 265 million cups of coffee, or some 500 cups per person, were consumed in 2017, according to Korea Customs Service. While coffee may be an effective solution to jolt a person awake, health experts say it may not be the best drink to go for the first thing in the morning. (FreeQration)In the first one to two hours after a person wakes from sleep, cortisol, a stress hormone, is secreted in large

Jul 12, 2018
Health
Rules toughened to reduce damage from clinical trials

82 clinical trial deaths reported over five-year period

Jul 5, 2018
Health
Lung cancer incidence rate suggests more women smoking than official count

The actual smoking rate among women is likely to be nearly triple the official count of 6.4 percent, due to women's underreporting, a health professor said in a report Monday.The smoking rate was measured at 40.7 percent for men and 6.4 percent for women in 2016.According to Jeong Geum-ji of Yonsei University's graduate school of public health, the difference between men and women in the incidence rate for lung cancer was narrower than the gap in the smoking rate. In 2015, for example, 17,015 me

Jun 4, 2018
Health
Heartbreaker? Smoking causing millions of heart attacks, strokes: WHO

While the link between smoking and a range of cancers is well known, the World Health Organization warned Thursday there was too little awareness of tobacco's impact on the human heart.On the occasion of World No Tobacco Day Thursday, the UN health agency hailed that smoking had declined significantly since year 2000, but warned that there were still far too many people indulging in the dangerous habit.And it cautioned that research showed there was "a serious lack of knowledge" about the differ

Jun 3, 2018
Health
Caring for aging pets

Aging society not limited to humans, but pets as well

Jun 2, 2018
Health
[Graphic News] S. Korea's medical spending grows fastest among OECD members

　According to a report from the Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs, medical spending in South Korea jumped by an annual average of 6.8 percent from 2005 to 2015　The growth rate during the period outpaced the average of 2.1 percent expansion among member countries of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, marking the highest increase of the group.　The spending growth was attributed to an increase in public expenditure on medical care with an aging population.

May 9, 2018
Health
Smoking cafes no longer oasis for ostracized smokers

Local coffee shops to enforce smoking ban with upcoming revision to smoking law in Korea

Apr 20, 2018
Health
Scientists develop AI-based deep learning drug interaction, prediction system

A group of South Korean scientists have developed a deep learning system based on artificial intelligence that can precisely predict interactions between drugs, the government said Tuesday.According to the Ministry of Science and ICT, the team led by Lee Sang-yup of the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology developed the so-called deep drug-drug interactions technology, which can make it far easier to determine what kind of interaction will occur between various drugs.DDI is an impo

Apr 17, 2018
Health

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