The Association of Korean Oriental Medicine is collecting cases of illegally distributed dietary supplements. “Amid the growing public awareness of health and well-being, illegal distributors are selling non-authorized or even harmful supplements through a variety of channels,” said Kim Jung-kon, head of the AKOM. The AKOM has established an “anonymous bulletin” on its website, www.akom.org, to receive information. The reported cases will be investigated and compiled into a database to improve t

Obese women are more likely to suffer gestational diabetes, a group of local doctors said Wednesday. According to a study on 2,454 pregnant women by professors Shin Jong-chul and Choi Se-kyung of Seoul St. Mary’s Hospital, women who were overweight before pregnancy had a 1.58 times as much chance of suffering from gestational diabetes. It went up as high as 4.5 times higher among obese women. The risk of gestational hypertension was 2.2 times higher among overweight women and 2.5 times higher am

Leather trousers may be fashion-conscious, but are potentially bad for your health, Hanlim Pharm said Wednesday. The manufacturer of Antoleave, trophedema pills, said wearing leather trousers or skinny jeans that tightly stick to the legs for a long period of time could lower blood circulation. This could further develop into chronic venous insufficiency with swollen legs associated with pain, it said. “In winter, the blood vessels in the leg area contract due to cold weather. In the worst case,

WASHINGTON (AP) ― Federal health regulators are leaning toward adding new information about the risk of blood clots to the labels of widely prescribed birth control pills such as Yaz, in light of growing evidence that the newer contraceptive drugs may be riskier than older drugs.In documents released Tuesday, the Food and Drug Administration said there is conflicting evidence about the risk, but that the information should appear in labeling used by doctors and patients.“We believe that, because

No high-ranking GNP official involved in crime on election watchdog: policeA former secretary to Grand National Party lawmaker Choi Ku-sik confessed Thursday to the cyber attack on the website of the national election watchdog on Oct. 26 during the by-elections.According to the police, Gong confessed to the charges during interrogation in the early hours of the day, saying he was acting independently. Gong had until then denied involvement in the cyber attacks. Police have tentatively concluded

The company sees more business opportunities in ChinaAt a crowded hypermarket in Beijing, the shelves for diapers are filled with Huggies products.Even though their maker Kimberly-Clark has a Chinese branch, all the premium diapers sold in China are produced by Korea-based Yuhan-Kimberly at its Daejeon factory, some 160 kilometers south of Seoul. Yuhan-Kimberly is a joint venture established in 1970 between Korean company Yuhan Corp. and U.S.-based Kimberly-Clark Corp., that entered China’s prem

Yuhan-Kimberly has established its Innovation Center, aiming to implement the company’s core values -- challenge and creativity.The center at Jukjeon, Gyeonggi Province, which opened Oct. 27, is helping the company maximize efficiency in research and engineering.The company said it will increase the number of research and engineering specialists to 72 from the current 50 by 2015.The company had traditionally operated six departments -- “baby & child care,” “family care,” “senior care,” “feminine

Korea finalized a roadmap for standardization of technologies for smart grids, electric cars, nuclear energy, the 3D industry, cloud computing, smart media, smart logistics and smart medical information.National standardization coordinators and industrial experts worked together on the roadmap for standardization of the nation’s technologies in eight major areas, unveiled by the Korean Agency for Technology and Standards under the Ministry of Knowledge Economy on Thursday.In the electric car are