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The "Act on Overseas Medical Expansion and Foreign Patient Attraction Support"(legislation no. 13599), due to be enacted by the National Assembly during the general meeting on June 23, 2016, will...
Ultrasonography is a powerful and useful method for the examination of the various shoulder diseases. The use of high-resolution transducer and technical evolution allowed the improvement of the accuracy of...
Ovarian cancer is the most lethal gynecologic cancer. Countless efforts have been made to improve the survival of ovarian cancer patients by clinicians as well as basic researchers so far....
The standard treatment for epithelial ovarian cancer is maximal cytoreductive surgery and adjuvant chemotherapy. Neoadjuvant chemotherapy can be considered as an alternative treatment strategy when unacceptable primary surgery, in terms...
Ovarian cancer is the most lethal of the gynecologic cancers worldwide because most patients present with advanced stage disease at the time of diagnosis. Although multiple therapeutic modalities are employed...
Sperm banking is an important option to maintain the male fertilization capacity or induce pregnancy even though under the era of in vitro fertilization. The medical indications for sperm banking...
Epithelial ovarian cancer is one of the last treatment areas to be influenced by the 'personalized medicine' bandwagon. Some anti-angiogenic agents, poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP), and immune checkpoint inhibitors have...
Urinary incontinence (UI) has been a serious health problem which can significantly affect quality of life. UI may occur at any age but more common in the elderly population. Many...
This article presents recent trends and statistical indicators related to mortality in the Republic of Korea by analyzing the 2014 cause-of-death statistics. Specifically, we assessed the number of deaths, the...