Tag: South Korean

Horses to the rescue of Korea’s Internet-addicted teens

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A 14-year old girl, who preferred to be identified only by her surname, Kim, rides a horse at Riding Healing Center in IncheonINCHEON, South Korea (Reuters) – Four months ago, the parents of a teenage South Korean girl were at their wits' end over her addiction to surfing the Internet for pornography. But now, thanks to a horse riding therapy program, their daughter appears to be back in control of her life. In South Korea, the world's most wired country and where almost two-thirds of the population owns a smartphone, addiction to the Internet has become a major problem. Government data says 680,000 children aged between 10 and 19 are Internet addicts, or around 10 percent of the age group. …

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Drug showed promise in clearing drug-resistant tuberculosis

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CHICAGO (Reuters) – An antibiotic used to treat severe bacterial infections showed promise at treating a highly drug-resistant and deadly form of tuberculosis, U.S. government and South Korean researchers said on Wednesday. The study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, is the first scientifically rigorous clinical trial of Pfizer’s antibiotic linezolid, or Zyvox, in patients with extensively drug-resistant TB (XDR-TB), which is resistant to at least four of the drugs most often used to treat the lung infection. …

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