Beyond ‘Getting Older’: 3 Major Joint Diseases That Strike in Middle Age
You wake up with stiff, unyielding fingers. Climbing a few flights of stairs leaves your knees throbbing.
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When Large Breasts Become a Burden: Actress Kang Ye-won Opens Up About the Physical and Emotional Toll
Actress Kang Ye-won has spoken candidly about her lifelong struggle with having an excessively large chest, revealing that her physical and emotional...
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...
Beyond Itchy Feet: How Summer Humidity Triggers Recurrent Fungal Skin Infections
Although the peak of the summer heat wave has passed, lingering humidity continues to create an ideal environment for...
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
Patients preparing for breast cancer surgery often ask a quiet question before entering the operating room.
JW Pharmaceutical Files for Phase 3 Trial of Biweekly Obesity Drug Bofanglutide
JW Pharmaceutical announced on Aug. 18 that it has submitted an Investigational New Drug application to South Korea’s...
Korean Surgeons Settle Decades-Long Debate Over Rectal Cancer Technique
Outside the operating room, a patient’s family waits anxiously. Although the rectal cancer surgery has concluded...
Normal Cholesterol Panel? Why You Might Still Need an Lp(a) Test
Under national health screening guidelines, adults undergo routine dyslipidemia blood panels every four years—starting...
When Pain Keeps You from Walking, Start with the Cause
Editor’s note: In Japan’s orthopedic community, specialists use the term "locomotive syndrome" to describe a decline in...