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...
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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 sunken or protrude outward.
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.
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...
A Single Drop of Plasma and 10 Minutes: Rapid Test Identifies Cardiovascular Disease with 91.4% Accuracy
Researchers have developed a diagnostic technology capable of reading molecular signals associated with cardiovascular...
AI Boosts Precision in Identifying Causal Genes for Inherited Retinal Diseases
Inherited retinal diseases present significant diagnostic challenges: while many manifest with similar clinical...
Beyond Diseased Samples: National Biobank to Collect Healthy Organ Tissue from Deceased Donors
When a specific gene or protein is expressed at unusually high levels in diseased tissue, determining whether the...
Irregular Periods but Normal Ultrasound? AMH Blood Test May Catch ‘Missed’ Polycystic Ovaries
If your period skips for months, your cycle is erratic, or you develop unexplained acne and excess body hair, an...
Beyond Medical Missions: Asan Medical Center Empowers Mongolian Doctors to Achieve Self-Reliance
For residents of northern Mongolia living more than 400 kilometers from the capital, Ulaanbaatar, accessing specialized...
A Third Arm for Therapists: The Surgeon Bringing ‘Self-Driving’ Tech to Physical Rehab
Artificial intelligence may be able to detect a patient’s disease, but it cannot move stiff arms and legs for them.