The Korea Herald

Stomach pacemaker could help obese lose weight

Mar 7, 2011

LONDON (AP) _ Patrick Hetzner tried diets and exercise, just about everything short of stomach stapling to lose weight. Nothing worked. Five months ago he tried something new: a stomach pacemaker tha...
Treat yourself, in moderation

Mar 3, 2011

Humans, perhaps Americans in particular, tend to share a certain creed that goes something like this: If one is good, two are better. That’s fine when it comes to dollars in the collection plate or ...
Asan hospital adopts new Gamma knife

Mar 3, 2011

The Asan Medical Center has adopted the cutting-edge Gamma knife device, “Perfexion” for its Gamma Knife Center. The center, which has recently marked 5,000 cases of operation for the first time in ...
Fertility treatment ‘Elonva’ approved

Mar 3, 2011

Elonva, infertility treatment by MSD-Korea, the Korean branch of the Merck & Co., gained the Korea Food and Drug Administration’s approval last week, the company said Monday. The follitropin beta (g...
SNU develops Parkinson’s treatment

Mar 3, 2011

Seoul National University Hospital’s Parkinson Center said Monday it has developed an original DBS Electrode Location Analysis System to treat Parkinson’s disease and will provide an international se...
Alzheimer's disease may be passed down from ailing mothers, study suggests

Mar 2, 2011

Mothers may be more likely to pass down Alzheimer’s disease to their children than fathers, a finding that may help identify patients earlier, researchers from the University of Kansas School of Medi...
Low fat or low carb? Which is the better way to lose weight?

Feb 28, 2011

A low-fat diet will help you lose weight. Or is it a low-carbohydrate diet? Pore over decades of research and dozens of studies over this debate and you’re likely to be confused about the best way to...
Glaucoma: the silent thief of sight

Feb 24, 2011

By Kee Chang-won, MD, Ph.D. Glaucoma is an eye disorder in which the optic nerve suffers damage, permanently impacting vision and progressing to complete blindness if untreated. Glaucoma has been n...
Laughing gasreturning as option for laboring moms

Feb 14, 2011

CONCORD, New Hampshire (AP) ― Labor pain is nothing to laugh at. Yet. The use of nitrous oxide, or laughing gas, during childbirth fell out of favor in the United States decades ago, and just two h...
With love and grit, he marches on

Jan 31, 2011

In a Vietnamese jungle on Sept. 4, 1969, the stubby bullet of a Russian-made AK-47 ripped into the skull of Army Spc. Leonard Rugh, then 24. It didn’t stop until it had torn through his brain’s right...
Seoul to hike milk output quota to tackle FMD-sparked dearth

Jan 18, 2011

South Korea will temporarily allow local dairy farms to increase milk production to counter shortfalls caused by the culling of dairy cows due to the recent foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) outbreak, the...
Additional FMD case found in central S. Korea

Jan 18, 2011

South Korea confirmed an additional case of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) in the country's central region on Tuesday, though nationwide vaccinations and quarantine efforts are having some effect on co...
‘Korea faced with deepening health care deficit’

Jan 17, 2011

Fast-aging Korea could see a deficit of 16 trillion won ($14 billion) in its medical insurance financing by 2020, a report warned Monday. Without “fundamental change” in the overall system, the defi...
Lee inspects quarantine activities against animal disease

Jan 16, 2011

President Lee Myung-bak on Sunday instructed civil servants to step up efforts to stem the nationwide spread of livestock foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) ahead of the three-day Lunar New Year holidays t...