Surgical Diseases in North Korea: An Overview of North Korean Medical Journals

Overview of the Burden of Diseases in North Korea

This article evaluates the overall current disease burden of North Korea through the recent databases of international organizations. It is notable that North Korea as a nation is exhibiting a relatively low burden from deaths and that there is greater burden from deaths caused by non-communicable diseases than from those caused by communicable diseases and malnutrition. However, the absolute m...

Medical education of north Korea.

Representations of OxyContin in North American newspapers and medical journals.

BACKGROUND There are public concerns regarding OxyContin (Purdue Pharma, Canada) and charges within the pain medicine community that media coverage of the drug has been biased. OBJECTIVE To analyze and compare representations of OxyContin in medical journals and North American newspapers in an attempt to shed light on how each contributes to the 'social problem' associated with OxyContin. M...

Tuberculosis in North Korea.

Full Text Full Text (PDF) Supporting Online Material Induction of Colonic Regulatory T Cells by Indigenous Clostridium Species Koji Atarashi, Takeshi Tanoue, Tatsuichiro Shima, Akemi Imaoka, Tomomi Kuwahara, Yoshika Momose, Genh Sho Yamasaki, Takashi Saito, Yusuke Ohba, Tadatsugu Taniguchi, Kiyoshi Takeda, Shohei Hori, Ivaylo I. Ivan Kikuji Itoh, and Kenya Honda Science 21 January 2011: 337-341...

Overview of emergency medical services in North Carolina.