
포천시는 다음 달 16일까지 2026년 하반기 효드림 할인업소 지원사업에 참여할 이용업·미용업·목욕장업 업소를 모집한다. 선정 업소는 만 70세 이상 노인에게 이용요금의 10% 이내에서 자율적으로 할인 혜택을 제공하며, 포천시는 표지판 제작과 종량제봉투 지원 및 홍보를 실시한다.
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포천시 표어인 '더 큰 포천, 더 큰 행복'의 취지에 맞춰 노인들의 건강하고 행복한 노후생활을 지원하고 지역 내 영업주의 자발적 나눔 문화 확산을 위해 효드림 사업을 추진하고 있다.
(포천=연합뉴스) 노승혁 기자 = 경기 포천시는 다음 달 16일까지 '2026년 하반기 포천시 효드림 할인업소 지원사업'에 참여할 업소를 모집한다고 28일 밝혔다.
효드림은 만 70세 이상 노인에게 이용업·미용업 및 목욕장 등의 이용요금을 할인해 주는 사업이다.
포천시 표어(슬로건)인 '더 큰 포천, 더 큰 행복'의 취지에 맞춰 노인들의 건강하고 행복한 노후생활을 지원하고 지역 내 영업주의 자발적 나눔 문화 확산을 위해 추진하고 있다.
모집 대상은 포천시에 영업 신고가 된 이용업·미용업(헤어)·목욕장업 등이다.
선정 업소는 포천시에 거주하는 만 70세 이상 노인에게 이용요금의 10% 이내에서 자율적으로 할인 혜택을 제공한다.
포천시는 참여업소에 '효드림 할인업소' 표지판 제작과 종량제봉투를 지원하고, 시 누리집과 누리소통망 등을 활용해 참여업소를 홍보할 예정이다.
포천시는 하반기 참여업소 8곳을 선착순으로 모집한다.
참여 희망 업소는 다음 달 16일까지 포천시 보건소 식품위생과 공중위생팀을 방문하거나 전자우편·팩스·우편으로 신청하면 된다.
자세한 내용은 포천시 보건소 식품위생과 공중위생팀(☎ 031-538-3628)으로 문의하면 확인할 수 있다.

Rep. Park Yong-gap said that in most regions of the country except Seoul, Daegu, Busan, and Daegu, the satisfaction rate for cancer surgery is low, so patients are choosing to go to Seoul for treatment, and pointed out that it is necessary to establish a regional complete cancer treatment base centered on the National University Hospital and to build a cancer hospital in the central region.

Korea Land and Housing Corporation (LH) announced that it will implement the '2026 Living Forest Healing Program' to improve the emotional stability and health of rental housing residents aged 65 or older. This project, introduced in 2023, provides various activities such as making companion trees, planting herbs, and aromatherapy by utilizing landscaping and forest welfare facilities in collaboration with the Korea Forest Welfare Agency. The average satisfaction level of participants was 98 and the effect of reducing loneliness was confirmed.

The research team at Seoul St. Mary's Hospital of the Catholic University of Korea announced that they had identified the 'intestinal-liver IgA immune axis' in which IgA antibodies produced in the intestines when drinking excessively move to the liver, bind to liver macrophages, amplify inflammation, and cause liver cell damage. This suggests a new mechanism for alcohol-related liver disease and can serve as a basis for developing treatment strategies.

RigaChem Bioscience announced that its partner Sotio Biotech's LRRC15-targeting ADC 'SOT106' has received additional orphan drug and fast track designation from the FDA. In addition, RigaChem explained that its self-developed BCMA targeting ADC candidate 'LCB43' showed excellent anti-tumor effect and good tolerability in preclinical trials, and that it plans to quickly enter global clinical trials by submitting an clinical trial plan (IND) within the year.

Kim Hyun-ah, a professor of rheumatology at Hallym University Sacred Heart Hospital, criticized that commercialization is intensifying at university hospitals because professors' salaries are linked to the amount of test prescriptions and the number of patients. It was diagnosed that the more expensive tests such as MRI are prescribed, the higher the performance bonus, which leads to damage to the public nature of medical care. In addition, it was warned that abnormal findings were excessively discovered during health examinations, producing a large number of patients, and that guided robotic surgery led to a reduction in laparoscopic surgery, adversely affecting access to and quality of medical care.

As a result of an intensive inspection of 125 medical institutions handling propofol, the Seoul Metropolitan Government announced that violations of the Narcotic Drugs Control Act were detected at 26, and that administrative measures such as fines and business suspensions will be imposed and five serious violations will be prosecuted.