Objective To understand the use of traditional Chinese medicine in treating osteoporosis in South Korea's academic institutions during the past ten years.Methods Database of South Korean academic papers on the treatment ofosteoporosis with traditional Chinese medicine from 2003 to 2012 were searched,and 56 academic papers were retrieved.Results Of 34 selected research papers on single herb,20 papers were on herb with tonifying function,accounting for 58.8％; 4 papers were on herb with invigorating blood and dispersing blood stasis function,accounting for 11.8％; and 10 papers on herb with tonifing kidney Yang function,accounting for the remaining 29.4％.The other 22 papers were on Chinese herbal formulas.Among them,16 papers were on formulas with tonifiying function,accounting for 72.7％.Of all 17 Youguiyin dominate formulas,14 formulas showed main functions of supplementing Kidney,accounting for 82.4％.Conclusion In the osteoporosis research papers using single herb and Chinese formulas,the ones with the function of supplementing,especially supplementing kidney were chosen by a high ratio.

Recently, the trends of medical information technologies are capturing digital image from medical analog information, medical image aquisition, transmission, storage and query as well as integration with hospital information system. Analog medical visual information from ultrasonic, MRI can be changed into digital medical information, and to connect with medical video information system which need frame editing, 3D modeling and rendering. The purpose of this study is to design multi graphic image authoring tool and development of digital video editing functionalities, which can be used usefully for medical visual editing tool as well as vector image production system. The implementation methodology is based on Object-Oriented Modeling with primitive, media and composition object with reusability and inheritance characteristics, which can be useful for interleaving various type of media into video stream. The system assesment is based on international recommendation ISO 15504 81W process capability determination. We select 6 processes from Engineering process of system requirement analysis and design category, and determine capability for selected SIW process for system assesment.
Equidae ; Hospital Information Systems ; Information Systems ; Magnetic Resonance Imaging ; Rivers ; Ultrasonics ; Wills

The purpose of this study is to develop medicine electronic order system to improve medicine logistics using information and communication technologies. The Electronic Order System of medicine using Web EDJ adopted the Internet and Web-based technologies which grows so fast lately, enables medical institutions to place an order with the pharmaceutical companies for various pharmacy and vendors to receive an order form in electronical ways and to deliver the products. It designed that every application programs installed and run at web-server, so if personal computers located in user facilities have only web-browser, user can order medicines wherever Internet is available. We can expect two effects from this system. First, it reduces cost and budget because of substituting electronical ordering the pharmacy for telephoning or faxing. Secondly, in technical side, it utilized a new kind of concept, Internet-based EDJ, not VAN(Value Added Network) EDI using the existent closed network.
Budgets ; Commerce ; Internet ; Microcomputers ; Organization and Administration ; Pharmacy

PURPOSE: We identified the causative viruses from patients with aseptic meningitis, acute hemorrhagic conjunctivitis and other enterovirus-related diseases to understand the epidemiological patterns and prevailing strains of enterovirus infections each year. MATERIALS AND METHODS: During 1999-2003, we examined 3,260 specimens from 2,939 patients with aseptic meningitis or other clinical manifestations for the presence of enteroviruses by using both cell culture/ neutralisation test and reverse transcription-polymerse chain reaction-sequencing. To investigate the etiological agents which caused an epidemic of acute haemorrhagic conjunctivitis, conjunctival swab samples from acute haemorrhagic conjunctivitis patients showing cytopathic effects in HEp2 cells were tested by enteroviral specific PCR. RESULTS: We identified 603 isolates of enteroviruses (20.5%) among 2,939 cases and 22 serotypes of human enteroviruses were isolated during this 5 year period. Echovirus 13 and coxsackievirus A24 in 2002 and coxsackievirus A9 in 2003 were the first enterovirus to be indentified in Korea since we began the enterovirus surveillance in 1993. While an epidemic of echovirus 13 infection in Korea began in Gwangju and Jeolla province in 2002 and spread to Seoul, Gyunggi, Busan, Ulsan and other regions, echovirus 6 isolates in 2002 were mainly detected in Busan specimens and some Gwangju samples. From the nucleotide sequencing of enteroviral PCR products of conjunctival swab specimens, we found 85% nucleotide homology to coxsackievirus A24 (D90457). CONCLUSIONS: We isolated 603 enteroviral isolates among 2939 cases during 1999-2003. Echovirus 13 and coxsackievirus A24 were the first enterovirus to be identified in Korea and caused nationwide epidemics in 2002.
Busan ; Conjunctivitis ; Conjunctivitis, Acute Hemorrhagic ; Echovirus 6, Human ; Enterovirus B, Human ; Enterovirus Infections ; Enterovirus* ; Gwangju ; Humans ; Korea* ; Meningitis, Aseptic ; Polymerase Chain Reaction ; Seoul ; Ulsan

PURPOSE: We identified the causative viruses from patients with aseptic meningitis, acute hemorrhagic conjunctivitis and other enterovirus-related diseases to understand the epidemiological patterns and prevailing strains of enterovirus infections each year. MATERIALS AND METHODS: During 1999-2003, we examined 3,260 specimens from 2,939 patients with aseptic meningitis or other clinical manifestations for the presence of enteroviruses by using both cell culture/ neutralisation test and reverse transcription-polymerse chain reaction-sequencing. To investigate the etiological agents which caused an epidemic of acute haemorrhagic conjunctivitis, conjunctival swab samples from acute haemorrhagic conjunctivitis patients showing cytopathic effects in HEp2 cells were tested by enteroviral specific PCR. RESULTS: We identified 603 isolates of enteroviruses (20.5%) among 2,939 cases and 22 serotypes of human enteroviruses were isolated during this 5 year period. Echovirus 13 and coxsackievirus A24 in 2002 and coxsackievirus A9 in 2003 were the first enterovirus to be indentified in Korea since we began the enterovirus surveillance in 1993. While an epidemic of echovirus 13 infection in Korea began in Gwangju and Jeolla province in 2002 and spread to Seoul, Gyunggi, Busan, Ulsan and other regions, echovirus 6 isolates in 2002 were mainly detected in Busan specimens and some Gwangju samples. From the nucleotide sequencing of enteroviral PCR products of conjunctival swab specimens, we found 85% nucleotide homology to coxsackievirus A24 (D90457). CONCLUSIONS: We isolated 603 enteroviral isolates among 2939 cases during 1999-2003. Echovirus 13 and coxsackievirus A24 were the first enterovirus to be identified in Korea and caused nationwide epidemics in 2002.
Busan ; Conjunctivitis ; Conjunctivitis, Acute Hemorrhagic ; Echovirus 6, Human ; Enterovirus B, Human ; Enterovirus Infections ; Enterovirus* ; Gwangju ; Humans ; Korea* ; Meningitis, Aseptic ; Polymerase Chain Reaction ; Seoul ; Ulsan