1+ hour, 28+ min ago  (335+ words) Professor Yoo Jae-hyun of the Department of Psychiatry at the Catholic University of Korea Seoul St. Mary's Hospital has joined a government-funded research project to develop an artificial intelligence-based suicide prevention platform tailored to students' needs. The project, titled "Development…...

18+ hour, 22+ min ago  (847+ words) More and more people are struggling to sleep at night. According to data from the Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service (HIRA), the number of patients treated for insomnia in Korea rose about 16 percent over the past five years, from…...

3+ day, 3+ hour ago  (368+ words) A significant number of public health doctors deployed to frontline emergency response efforts during the Covid-19 pandemic experienced mental health challenges, including depression and burnout, according to a recent study. A research team led by Professor Yun Ji-ae of the…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (638+ words) The government plans to expand the point at which life-sustaining treatment can be withheld or withdrawn from the current end-of-life stage to include terminally ill patients, while also allowing advance directives for life-sustaining treatment to be registered online. The Ministry…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago  (381+ words) A new study has found that anxiety symptoms may be more strongly linked to prolonged sleep inertia -- the groggy state immediately after waking -- than sleep duration or sleep environment factors. A research team led by Professor Yun Chang-ho of'Seoul National…...

1+ mon, 1+ day ago  (564+ words) While the government has emphasized cooperation with primary care clinics as part of efforts to reduce the suicide rate, concerns are growing that high-risk individuals identified early in medical settings are still being left without timely treatment or counseling. According…...

1+ mon, 23+ hour ago  (647+ words) Clozapine, a drug used for patients with schizophrenia who do not respond to standard treatments, appears to change the brain's microstructure, researchers in Korea have found. The findings, published in Translational Psychiatry, suggest that MRI texture analysis could one day…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (449+ words) Severance researchers have developed a proteogenomic model that integrates genetic and protein data to predict chemotherapy response in triple-negative breast cancer, according to a study published in the latest issue of Genome Biology. Triple-negative breast cancer lacks estrogen, progesterone, and…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (423+ words) Nearly one in three parents raising children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in Korea experience clinically significant mental health issues -- more than three times higher than the prevalence reported in the general adult population the nationa, a new study showed....

2+ mon, 6+ day ago  (397+ words) JW Pharmaceutical announced Monday that research showed pediatric and adolescent patients with hemophilia A treated with Hemlibra (emicizumab) maintained a low bleeding risk during physical activity. These findings were recently published in the international academic journal TH Open. Hemlibra is…...