Korea public health reader (March 28, 2010 edition)

• South Koreans are overdosing on diet pills.

• Here may be a reason for more people — including males — to get vaccinated for HPV: It turns out that the virus may also be responsible for head and neck cancers.

• Citing South Korea's rising economic and political status, the ROK government will send out an additional one thousand medical and educational volunteers to poorer countries in Asia and Africa. 

• South Korean officials have announced the opening next month of a "human rights clinic" for victims of particularly heinous crimes.