The Socialist Camp's North Korean Medical Support and Exchange (1945-1958): Between Learning from the Soviet Union and Independent Course.

This study focused on the socialist camp's North Korean medical support and its effects on North Korean medical field from liberation to 1958. Except for the Soviet assistance from liberation to the Korean War, existing studies mainly have paid attention to the 'autonomous' growth of the North Korean medical field. The studies on the medical support of the Eastern European countries during the Korean War have only focused on one-sided support and neglected the interactions with the North Korean medical field.

Clinical and economic evaluation of pharmacists' contribution to patient care on a multi-disciplinary liver transplant team.

Objectives: We aimed to describe and to evaluate the clinical and economic implications of pharmacists' interventions as members of the liver transplant team for hospitalized liver recipients.

Methods: Retrospective descriptive and cost-benefit analysis of documented pharmacist interventions for hospitalized patients from January 2010 to June 2012 was conducted. The type of drug-related problems (DRPs) was categorized.

Safety of reduced dose of mycophenolate mofetil combined with tacrolimus in living-donor liver transplantation.

Background/aims: The dose of mycophenolate mofetil (MMF) has been reduced in Asia due to side effects associated with the conventional fixed dose of 2-3 g/day. We aimed to determine the pharmacokinetics of a reduced dose of MMF and to validate its feasibility in combination with tacrolimus in living-donor liver transplantation (LDLT).

Methods: Two sequential studies were performed in adult LDLT between October 2009 and 2011.