Medicine

Severe Lung Complications Drop Below 10% for Early Lung Cancer Patients with IPF Treated with Proton Therapy

Severe Lung Complications Drop Below 10% for Early Lung Cancer Patients with IPF Treated with Proton Therapy

For patients diagnosed with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis —a chronic disease in which lung tissue inexplicably becomes scarred, stiffened, and...
Women’s Heart Disease Often Strikes Without Chest Pain—and 60% of Adults Don’t Know It

Women’s Heart Disease Often Strikes Without Chest Pain—and 60% of Adults Don’t Know It

Crushing, squeezing chest pain is widely recognized as the hallmark sign of a heart attack. Yet in women, cardiovascular disease frequently presents...
Sunken or Protruding Chest in Teens? Understanding Pectus Excavatum and Pectus Carinatum

Sunken or Protruding Chest in Teens? Understanding Pectus Excavatum and Pectus Carinatum

When a child’s height rapidly increases during adolescence, the center of their chest may begin to look noticeably...
Deciphering Ampullary Cancer: Korean Researchers Identify Aggressive Subtype of Rare Disease

Deciphering Ampullary Cancer: Korean Researchers Identify Aggressive Subtype of Rare Disease

Where the bile duct and pancreatic duct meet to drain digestive juices into the duodenum, a rare and elusive malignancy...
Even Seoul-Area Tertiary Hospitals Fall Into the Red as 253 Institutions Record a Nine-Year Financial Slide

Even Seoul-Area Tertiary Hospitals Fall Into the Red as 253 Institutions Record a Nine-Year Financial Slide

It is a familiar refrain in the healthcare industry that managing hospital finances has grown exceptionally difficult.
Regenerative Technique Aims to Solve Rotator Cuff Re-Tears by Rebuilding the Tendon-Bone Junction

Regenerative Technique Aims to Solve Rotator Cuff Re-Tears by Rebuilding the Tendon-Bone Junction

When surgeons reattach a torn shoulder tendon to the bone, a frustrating setback often occurs over time: the repair...
South Korea Expands Microbiome Research Guidelines to Include Fungi

South Korea Expands Microbiome Research Guidelines to Include Fungi

Microorganisms residing in the human body extend well beyond bacteria and viruses to encompass fungi, including molds...
Clumsy Hands or Unsteady Gait? It Might Be Cervical Myelopathy, Not Just Aging

Clumsy Hands or Unsteady Gait? It Might Be Cervical Myelopathy, Not Just Aging

“I can’t use chopsticks like I used to. ” “Why is buttoning my shirt so hard. ” “I keep dropping things.
Preserving Form and Hope: Korean Surgeon Reaches 500th Robotic Breast Cancer Operation

Preserving Form and Hope: Korean Surgeon Reaches 500th Robotic Breast Cancer Operation

Patients preparing for breast cancer surgery often ask a quiet question before entering the operating room.
From Liposuction Waste to Skin Models: Discarded Human Fat Repurposed for Medical Research

From Liposuction Waste to Skin Models: Discarded Human Fat Repurposed for Medical Research

Human fat once discarded as medical waste after liposuction is set to take on new life as a crucial material for...