Dr. Seo Hyo-seok

  If, at age 60, the angel of death comes to take me away, please tell him I ...

Modern medicine has many kinds of synthetic drugs to treat chronic diseases. However, once patients start to take ...

The question of what constitutes good end-of-life care is one that perplexes physicians around the world. In 2011, ...

Our blood flows throughout the body in a vast network of vessels. If all these blood vessels were ...

According to [a recent] report on the aging of the world's population published by the United Nations, there ...

Throughout the human history, wise people claimed that the secrets of good health included good appetite, sound sleep, ...

The historic match between the artificial intelligence Alpha-Go (of Google) and Lee Se-dol of the ninth-dan rank of ...

Cerebral apoplexy, frequently referred to as stroke, is nicknamed "the silent killer" for good reasons. Statistically, one out ...

We all have a butterfly in our throat. It is the thyroid gland that rests between the protruding ...

"Live Passionately" is the slogan of the 2016 Summer Olympics, which will heat up Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in ...

Spring is already upon us. It arrives in the sky in February and on land in March. We ...

In the previous 19 columns, I have said that humans can enjoy longevity with good health by fortifying ...

The following is an account from one of my patients who suffered from severe eczema and side effects ...

Buddhist teachings tell us that if something is meant to be, it will happen naturally when the time ...

Why, despite investing hundreds of millions of dollars annually in research, have we not won the war on ...

We sustain our lives through two core tracts: the digestive tract and the respiratory tract. But we pay ...

The life of a person begins with breathing and ends with breathing. Following birth, an infant commences an ...

Our immune system protects us from infection by pathogens such as bacteria, viruses, and parasites. It also protects ...

Situated in the center of the face, the nose has many important roles. When you inhale cold air, ...

The common cold is one of the most common acute illnesses. When we have one, we literally experience ...

Early last year, a renowned scientist from China visited me with a look of great happiness on his ...

"Let me take a breath!" When most of us become tired in the midst of a busy day, ...

Around the world, hundreds of millions of people suffer from chronic respiratory diseases. By 2030, the World Health ...

If you or someone you know suffers from both allergies and frequent colds, you probably know that the ...

Arthritis has plagued the earth since time immemorial. The skeleton of Lucy, the almost 3.2 million-year-old hominid, appears ...

Asthma has become a very common chronic disease that affects more than 300 million people around the world. ...

In the last two columns, I explained the principles of treating and fully curing skin diseases like eczema. ...