Health institutions have stepped up putting acupuncture and moxibustion on a scientific and modern basis.

They developed a program for diagnosing stroke in advance and improved injections for serious diseases. A research has been made to develop constitutional grouping software.

The institutions have produced different kinds of reduced water while making efforts to further develop remedy for insomnia based on Koryo medicines.

Progresses have also been made in a research to treat mastopathy and breast cancer by new injections made of Koryo medicines.

Meanwhile, methods of producing many kinds of Koryo medicines on an extractive and standardized basis have been completed.