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Recent reports show that over 2 billion people are travelling via air every year, and the number of countries involved in space exploration is growing. Aerospace medicine, one of the...
A regionalization strategy is a model for improving the performance of the emergency medical service (EMS) system. The regionalization strategy has goals to provide appropriate, timely, effective, and efficient EMS...
Diving is a perilous activity. Long exposure to the subaquatic environment results in many troubles to divers. In Korea, the number of divers, especially recreational ones, is soaring up and...
Minimally invasive surgery (MIS) for gastric cancer has been gaining popularity. Although many surgeons have reported the feasibility of MIS for gastric cancer, difficulties in standard lymph node dissection and...
In the Republic of Korea, a health-promoting physical activity policy model have never been proposed in the health care professions, although the Health Plan 2020 has been updated recently. Using...
In 2000, Korea enacted a controversial law prohibiting doctors from dispensing drugs. Doctors have opposed this law, and in theory, the law inconveniences patients. We assessed the relationship between patients'...
Cancer pain is among the most undesirable side effects and complications for cancer patients. Severe cancer pain acts as physical and psychological stress and makes it difficult for patients to...
The advent of minimally invasive surgery has provided many benefits to patients including less trauma, less pain, quicker recovery, and shorter hospital stays. A typical example of a minimally invasive...
Despite the wide diffusion of robot-assisted laparoscopic radical prostatectomy (RALP) as a surgical approach for clinically localized prostate cancer, no randomized controlled trial has been performed to compare RALP to...
Laparoscopic surgery is an acceptable option for colorectal cancer. Robotic surgery is an emerging methodology and may be a solution to some difficulties inherent to conventional laparoscopic surgery. The aims...
The development of robotic technology has facilitated the application of minimally invasive techniques for complex gynecologic surgery. Some major advantages of robotic surgery are three-dimensional magnification and articulation beyond normal...