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DAILY FORTUNE - NOVEMBER 24, 2016

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DAILY FORTUNE - NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Is quality consultation from doctors possible in Korea?

Korea needs more qualified primary healthcare servicesBy Shin Hyun-youngShin Hyun-youngAm I healthy? Are there any bad cells growing in my body? Do I have any undiagnosed diseases?When we hear about a friend suffering from a disease, we naturally wonder about our own health conditions.Under such circumstances, we read health-related books, search for health information on the internet, eat healthy food and take vitamins.“Why is my cholesterol rising while I hardly eat meat?” “I am getting fat even though I don’t eat very much.” “How should I manage my health if there is cancer in my family?”As a family physician in charge of primary care medicine, I often encounter patients with a lot of questions about their health.When patients receive counseling after a comprehensive health checkup, they want to know their test results in detail.People who need lifestyle management with obesity, heavy alcohol intake or smoking have markedly different health outcomes during a short minute medical consultation.Patients who were initially diagnosed with chron

Getting into the holiday spirit

From left, Ann, Lauren and Ellen enjoy the coziness of a Christmas tree after helping mom finish decorating for the holiday season. / Courtesy of Jane HanBy Jane Han Here in the United States, it’s that time of the year.The time of the year when the country’s two biggest holidays, Thanksgiving and Christmas, make a cheery, festive and colorful overlap.Actually, rewind back a few weeks and we can even throw Halloween into the mix.I’ve lived many years in the U.S., but it’s always fun and interesting to walk into a grocery store or any home goods store in October to find Halloween costumes, Thanksgiving decorations and Christmas wreaths all in one display.With all the different reasons to celebrate, the end of the year truly feels like the best time of the year for adults and children alike.But as my kids get older and become more verbal and aware of everything, I find myself rediscovering the holiday season.For example, I was shopping with the girls at Costco the other day. We saw a huge life-sized nutcracker at least twice as tall as my three-year-olds.El

WHO convention and Korea's tobacco control policy

By Bang Moon-kyuBang Moon-kyuThe seventh session of the Conference of the Parties (COP7) to the World Health Organization (WHO) Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) ended after six days of heated discussion in Delhi, India, from Nov. 7 to 12.The FCTC, which was unanimously adopted at the World Health Assembly in 2003, is the first international health treaty. It was developed on the spirit that all states need to cooperate to counteract the global tobacco epidemic and to protect people from the harm of smoking.The COP regularly reviews the implementation of the convention and discusses key tobacco-related issues, holding the session every two years. Korea ratified the convention right after its entry into force in 2005, and has exerted its efforts in full to implement the FCTC especially as the host of the fifth session in Seoul in 2012 and as the chair of the following session in Moscow, 2014.With about 1,000 delegations from 180 governments as well as intergovernmental organizations, including the WHO, and non-governmental organizations, this year’s COP7 assessed th

DAILY FORTUNE - NOVEMBER 21, 2016

3D Christimas tree

Taiwanese watch a 3D Christimas tree and Christmas scenes projected onto buildings in Banciao, New Taipei City, northern Taiwan, Saturday. The 36-meter tree wil be lit up every evening until the year-end, with a 3D projection — designed by Singapore's Hexogon Solution Ptd Ltd — being shown every half an hour./ EPA - Yonhap 

DAILY FORTUNE - NOVEMBER 19, 2016

Fake orgasms? It's something to moan about

A research team on "copulatory vocalizaion" asked 71 sexually active heterosexual women aged 18 to 48 about their vocalizaion during sex, and 66 percent of them answered that they moaned to “speed up their partner’s climax,” while 87 percent said they did it to “boost the partner’s self-esteem.” / Captured from social mediaBy Hong Dam-youngWhy do many women scream out while having sex?Is it a sign of reaching climax? Are there any reasons for it?Two U.K. scientists have explored the “truth” behind the vocalization, which has drawn attention on social media and coverage on U.S. news channel CNN.Gayle Brewer of the University of Central Lancashire and Colin Hendrie of the University of Leeds published their research on the topic ― technically known as “copulatory vocalization” ― in the Archives of Sexual Behavior in 2011, according to CNN. They asked 71 sexually active heterosexual women aged 18 to 48 about their vocalization during sex.The result showed that 66 percent of them moaned to “speed up the