Large hospitals have been paralyzed due to the government's unilateral push to increase the medical school enrollment quota for a month now.In other words, for over a month, specialists and professors have been working around the clock to fill the healthcare void left by the departure of interns, re
"My wife passed away from lung cancer last year. I never thought she would get lung cancer because she was a non-smoker and was so healthy that she hardly caught a cold. She went to her annual check-ups and never missed a chest X-ray, but she lived less than three years after the diagnosis of stage
Hanmi Group, led by Chairman Song Young-sook, criticized the vision put forth by her sons, Hanmi Pharm CEO and Coree Group Chairman Lim Jong-yoon and Hanmi Fine Chemical CEO Lim Jong-hoon, who oppose the merger between Hanmi Group and OCI Group.The criticism came in response to a press conference he
"We're not asking for health insurance benefits. We are asking for the opportunity to be treated in Korea, even at our own expense."Korean neuroendocrine tumor patients said so after the Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service (HIRA) said last Friday that it is difficult to lift the limit of
Amid mounting concerns about inadequate medical student education due to a drastic increase in their enrollment quota from 2025, government officials expressed an intention to obligate the sharing of cadavers for anatomy dissection among schools if supply fails to meet demand.Noting that a corpse ca
Medical AI company AITRICS said Thursday that it has raised Series B funding totaling 27.1 billion won ($20.4 million) from nine Korean and foreign venture capital firms.For the Series B round, existing investors like Premier Partners, BNH Investment, and BSK Investment made follow-on investments, w
Gilead's Sunlenca (lenacapavir), which has been attracting attention for treating human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) with twice-yearly injections, will likely be administered for the first time in Korea.On Tuesday, the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety (MFDS) approved the therapeutic use of Sunlenca
Novartis Korea has received a three-month import suspension order from the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety (MFDS) for Simulect Injection (basiliximab) due to a foreign substance contamination incident last year.Novartis Korea said it would do its best to supply the product so patients are not harme
In the midst of a contentious battle for control over Hanmi Group, Lim Jong-yoon and Lim Jong-hoon -- the sons of the company founder and the late Lim Sung-ki -- appealed for shareholders' support and promised to elevate Hanmi Pharm into a powerhouse capable of generating 1 trillion won ($754.2 mill
SK bioscience has begun exporting its cell-cultured influenza vaccine, SKY Cellflu, signaling the company's expansion into the Southeast Asian market and its entry into the southern hemisphere.SK bioscience said Thursday that it has shipped about 440,000 doses of SKY Cellflu to its Thai partner Biog
The allocation of increased medical school enrollment quota announced by the government is nothing more than an adjustment of quotas to solve the long-cherished wishes of private university hospitals, an opposition lawmaker said Wednesday.Some medical schools are located in provinces but educate the
Korean trainee doctors, seeking intervention from the International Labor Organization (ILO) to defy the government's return-to-work order, were rejected as ineligible for an opinion, the Korean government said.Earlier, the Korea Intern Resident Association (KIRA) sent an urgent intervention request
Merck said it would spend 300 million euros (about $328 million) to build a new bioprocessing plant in Daejeon, which would create around 300 additional jobs by the end of 2028. The decision marks the largest investment by Merck's Life Science business sector in the Asia-Pacific region to date, the
As the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) prepares to announce the “Second Round Measures to Prevent and Control Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (2024-2028)” soon, poor access to HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) has emerged as an issue.Many Koreans are believed to be purchasin
Researchers at Seoul National University Bundang Hospital (SNUBH) has successfully completed the "Drug-Induced Sleep Endoscopy AI Learning Data Construction National Project" with the highest grade rating.Drug-induced sleep endoscopy (DISE) is a widely used procedure for diagnosing and treating cond
The International Vaccine Institute (IVI) said it started transferring related technology for the development of a simplified oral cholera vaccine (OCV-S) to Biological E (BE), a leading vaccine and pharmaceutical company in India.The agreement comes after IVI and BE signed a technology license agre
In 2022, 80.6 percent of nurses left hospitals after working less than five years in their current workplaces. Those who left after less than a year accounted for 43.4 percent. Among those who quit, 10.8 percent gave up their job for good, and 57.4 percent of new nurses quit within a year of their w
Handok hosted the “APRO Symposium" on Tuesday at the Grand Intercontinental Seoul Parnas to celebrate the launch of Aprovasc, a hypertension treatment.The symposium, organized to commemorate the launch of Aprovasc, the first irbesartan and amlodipine combination drug in Korea, introduced the results
The Korea Medical Devices Industry Association (KMDIA) and the Taiwan Bio-Medical Care Association (TBMCA) signed a memorandum of understanding on Monday.KMDIA said on Wednesday that the MOU is designed to enhance information exchange and mutual trade in Korea and Taiwan's medical device markets and
The Korean government officially announced an expansion of medical school enrollment quotas by 2,000 for the academic year 2025, marking the first significant increase in 27 years, on Wednesday.According to Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Education Lee Ju-ho, during a press conference held at
