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A Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) - coronavirus (CoV) cluster that attacked Korea in May 2015 revealed several weaknesses in Korea's health care system in the face of the crisis...
Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) is an emerging zoonosis caused by the novel MERS corona virus isolated in 2012. Most MERS cases have been reported from Arab countries of the...
The Republic of Korea performed well in controlling severe acute respiratory syndrome in 2003 and not bad in controlling pandemic influenza H1N1 in 2009, even though the manpower and budget...
Latest guidelines on lipid management recommend statins as the first-line therapy. Because limited evidence is available on cardiovascular outcomes with varying statin-nonstatin combinations, recommendation levels for these regimens have been...
The reported thyroid cancer incidence rate in Korea has been increasing by 24% per year for the past 10 years. If this were accurate, reducing the sharp increase in thyroid...
The perioperative care of the geriatric patient is complex. Older patients are at increased risk for complications due to a decreased functional reserve, variable response to stress, and the number...
Regional anesthesia can reduce deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism by suppression of the stress responses caused by surgery via the blocking of the afferent and efferent pathways of nerve...
Healthcare system in Korea was found to be very vulnerable to public health emergency preparedness and response as demonstrated in the recent outbreak of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus. We...
The recent outbreak of Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) coronavirus infection in Korea resulted in large socioeconomic losses. This provoked the Korean government and the general public to recognize the...