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The Ministry of Health and Welfare will work with local governments to inspect medical institutions suspected of dispensing and selling large volumes of self-injected obesity drugs on site.
The National Health Insurance Service will hold an October 22 conference session on improving obesity prevention and management across different stages of life.
A Seoul National University Bundang Hospital team found that BMI, waist circumference and body roundness index had different associations with disease and mortality risks among adults aged 55 and older.
Ilsan Paik Hospital will hold an October 24 health lecture on obesity-treatment injections, lifestyle habits and weight management.
Onconic Therapeutics publicly outlined OCN-501 for the first time after The Obesity Society released the title of a late-breaking oral presentation for ObesityWeek 2026.
The Korean Academy of Family Medicine and Lilly Korea signed an agreement to strengthen evidence-based obesity diagnosis and treatment in primary care.
Sciwind Biosciences reported that 20 weeks of ecnoglutide treatment reduced BMI by up to 12.6% and body weight by up to 12.1% among adolescents with obesity in a phase 1b trial.
Medical-device startup TiQure and Kosin University Gospel Hospital agreed to jointly study an endoscopic device for obesity, type 2 diabetes and other metabolic diseases.
Korea’s school health screening system identifies students at risk and informs families, but its connection to continuing medical care remains weak.
Onconic Therapeutics will present its new obesity drug candidate at ObesityWeek 2026 in Washington, D.C., in November.
365mc and Beautiful Store donated four school benches made with 260 kilograms of discarded clothing to Shinhyeon Middle School in Seoul.
Hanmi Pharmaceutical granted Genentech exclusive rights outside Korea to develop, manufacture and commercialize the UCN2 analog HM17321 for obesity and related metabolic diseases.
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Small-area liposuction refines a stubborn contour under local anesthesia, but it is still surgery that shapes rather than slims.
Injection lipolysis can modestly reduce small, defined fat pockets over several sessions, but it is no shortcut to weight loss.
Enlarged male breast tissue can be glandular, fatty or both, and telling them apart is the first real step, not the surgery.
The operation removes fat cells from targeted zones — a change the scale barely registers, but the silhouette does.
When major weight loss leaves folds of skin that no exercise will tighten, body lift surgery removes the excess and re-drapes the rest.
