In 2019, it was pointed out that reimbursed obesity surgery is experiencing a stagnation. Although health insurance was applied to relieve the burden of medical expenses and actively treat the morbidly obese patients, it is pointed out that both the patient and the medical team have low motivation for active treatment because the surgery is … Read more
PSMA-PET CT, which is in the limelight as a next-generation imaging technology, is proving its effectiveness by building clinical evidence. It is solidifying its position as a next-generation diagnostic test method by continuously putting out clinical results that it is superior to other tests such as general CT. However, the key factor was cost. A … Read more
Statins, a treatment for dyslipidemia, can be used as an adjuvant treatment for depression, but a study has found that they are not effective for treatment-resistant depression. The results of a study on the effect of simvastatin on adults with treatment-resistant depression conducted by researchers including Ishrat Hussein of the Campbell Institute for Family Mental … Read more
Hanah Lee, planning committee member of the Liver Cancer Association (Division of Gastroenterology, Ewha Womans University Mokdong Hospital) While the number of elderly patients with liver cancer is increasing, a study has found that the prognosis during treatment intervention is similar to that of non-elderly patients. In particular, in the case of advanced liver cancer … Read more
Cancer, not cardiovascular disease, is the leading cause of death in type 2 diabetes, a new study has found. This breaks the conventional wisdom that the cause of death in diabetes is a cardiovascular disease complication, suggesting the need for a multidisciplinary approach. The results of a study on the mortality rate of patients with … Read more
The side effect issue of diabetic retinopathy (DR) of type 2 diabetes treatment glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonist (GLP-1 RA) has been reconfirmed. At the time of the development of semaglutide, an increase in retinopathy patients was observed in clinical trials, but as a similar trend was found in a meta-analysis involving a total of 60,000 … Read more