Raising the Scientific Level of Diagnosis and Treatment

The Hamhung Orthopaedic Hospital is directing efforts to the work of actively introducing advanced diagnosis and treatment methods into clinical practice.

In particular, it is deepening research into intractable diseases and raising the scientific level of diagnosis and treatment.

The hospital formed rational research teams by combining doctors with rich clinical experience and newly-appointed doctors, and conducted a comprehensive investigation into the problems arising in the diagnosis and treatment of avascular necrosis of the femoral head over the past ten-odd years.

After painstaking research, they scientifically systematized the causes of the disease and the treatment methods to be applied, etc.

The treatment method according to symptoms established on this basis is proving effective in clinical practice.

In addition, the research achievements they made, including the establishment of an early diagnosis system based on a scientific analysis of the burn diagnosis method, received excellent evaluation at various medical science and technology festivals.

Establishing Effective Treatment Methods

The South Phyongan Province Children's Hospital has established effective treatment methods and introduced them into clinical practice, achieving good results.

The abdominal surgery medical workers including department chief Comrade Choe Jong Sok, though busy with treatment work, delved through a vast amount of materials and continuously carried on the research work, and perfected a treatment method that can raise the effect while spending a low cost.

This treatment method not only prevents the occurrence of multiple organ failure in advance but also brings about a marked improvement in treatment and strengthens the immune function of the organs.

Also, it is well received among patients as it promotes growth and development.

This treatment method, which has been introduced into several hospitals and whose superiority has been clearly confirmed in the course of clinical practice, was registered as a national science and technology achievement last year.

Developing Medicines of Our Own Style

Upholding the Party's intention to vigorously conduct research work to prevent diseases with high morbidity and mortality rates including cancerous diseases and cardiovascular system diseases, the Medical Biology Research Institute of the Academy of Medical Science recently developed a highly effective medicine.

Cisplatin is the most widely used drug in cancer treatment, but its use was accompanied by not a few side effects.

The research group headed by researcher Comrade Sin Song Chol set the high goal of developing a new drug by using nanotechnology, which is becoming a global trend, and solved the arising sci-tech problems one by one. The nano-gold-platinum injection they developed not only has high effectiveness and almost no various side effects including leukopenia, but also has a great prospect for application in cancer treatment thanks to the introduction of nanotechnology, so it was awarded the Certificate of Introduction of Health Sci-Tech Achievement and the patent certificate.

The researchers here are continuously deepening their research work even today, full of the enthusiasm to achieve higher scientific research results that substantially contribute to clinical practice.

Text and photos: Kim Pyol Hae