An art exhibition that showcases “art of the mentally ill” and the history of Korean psychiatry will open at the KT&G Sangsang Madang building near Hongik University in Mapo-gu, Seoul, for two months starting March 3. The exhibition titled “History of PSYCHIATRY & ARTBRUT, the Origin,” hosted by the art museum VERSI and Museum Dr. Guislain will be open to art viewers starting Saturd
A joint research team is developing a new type of chimeric antigen receptor T cell (CAR-T) therapy that has no side effects, according to the National Cancer Center Friday.The research team from the National Cancer Center and Seoul-based clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company Eutilex aims to develop and commercialize a new CAR-T treatment based on its research results.CAR-T takes T-cells
Gilead Sciences’ Truvada recently gained an indication to be taken as a PrEP therapy to prevent HIV in Korea, bringing into question whether Koreans without an HIV infection will take the drug.■ Related : Gilead Sciences Korea gets expanded indication for Truvada to prevent HIVThe number of Koreans with AIDS has jumped across all age groups annually, running in the opposite direction of th
German pharmaceutical company Merck will pour around 53.3 billion won ($49.3 million) over the next two years to build a manufacturing and distribution platform in Asia, including a 10,141-square meter center in Incheon, Korea.The investment follows the company’s announcement made in November 2016 for a Life Science investment worth 106.5 billion won ($98.6 million) in Nantong, China. The
Sanofi-Aventis Korea will soon release its diabetes therapy Soliqua in pre-filled pens in Korea, marking it the first Asian launch, company officials said at a press conference in Seoul Thursday.“Compliance with fixed-dose combination therapy is great in Korea, and many domestic pharmaceutical companies are also investing in fixed ratio co-formulations (FRCs),” said Kim Dol-mi, medical directo
Officials from Korea’s Ministry of Food and Drug Safety (MFDS) and Saudi Food and Drug Authority (SFDA) met Thursday to strengthen cooperation in the medical device sector. Representing the Saudi side are ranking SFDA officials, including Vice Executive for Medical Devices Nazeeh Alothmany, Executive Director of Registration and Licensing Abdullah Salem Al-Dobaib, and Executive Dire
Merck said Tuesday that it got patents in South Korea and Israel for gene editing technology that integrates external DNA sequence into the chromosome of eukaryotic cells.The Korean Intellectual Property Office and Israel Patent Office have granted approval for Merck’s patent applications for its CRISPR technology to be used in a genomic integration method for eukaryotic cells.Merck’s pate
Gilead Sciences Korea said that it got the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety’s approval to use Truvada as a drug to prevent, not just treat HIV-1/AIDS, a company official said Wednesday.Truvada is a once-daily pill that is a fixed-dose combination of two antiretroviral medications - tenofovir disoproxil and emtricitabine – used alone or with other antiretroviral therapies to treat an HIV-1 infe
Severance Hospital said its surgeons successfully finished a spinal surgery with its newly implemented surgical imaging system O-ARM O2 and accompanying navigations system, Stealth Station.The medical team, led by Severance’s neurosurgeon Kim Keung-nyun, performed spinal surgery on a 60-year-old male suffering from radiating pain in the spine and leg using the O-ARM O2 and Stealth Station, the
The notorious "burn-to-ashes" culture embedded in Korea's nursing community has once again come to the surface, following reports of a nurse who committed suicide last week.The Songpa Police Station in southern Seoul said an unidentified nurse at Asan Medical Center killed herself Thursday leading many to speculate the abusive “burn” work culture to be the cause. A man who clai
New research from Kangwon National University Hospital (KNUH) is linking ultrafine dust pollution to an increased rate of hospital visits by chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients.Ultrafine dust - dubbed a "silent killer" - is a complex material composed of air ion, carbon, and heavy metals, and is defined as particles smaller than 2.5 meters. Inhaling ultrafine dust has been kn
SK Chemicals is aiming to become a leading shingles vaccines developer by grabbing half of the domestic market share this year, the company said Tuesday.“SK Chemicals plans to increase Skyzoster’s market share to 50 percent by the end of this year, keeping the initial momentum,” the company said. Skyzoster is the first domestically developed shingles vaccine and the world’s second such vaccine
Hanmi Pharmaceutical said Monday that Athenex finished registering patient applicants for its global phase 3 clinical trials for Oraxol, an oral anti-cancer drug, last Thursday.The medication is an oral dosage form of the widely used intravenous administered tubulin-stabilizing chemotherapeutic agent paclitaxel. The company licensed out the drug to Athenex, a U.S. biopharmaceutical company in
Doctors at Asan Medical Center have completed more than 10,000 surgeries for brain aneurysms since the hospital first executed the operation in 1989, the Seoul-based hospital said Monday.The neurosurgery team at Asan Medical Center in Seoul said it successfully finished the 10,000th brain aneurysm surgery on a 50-year old male by clipping the non-ruptured brain aneurysm in January.
Boehringer Ingelheim Korea is taking a seemingly hands-off approach for its non-vitamin K antagonist oral anticoagulant (NOAC) therapy Pradaxa in Korea, and “focusing on other therapy areas,” a company official said Thursday.Boehringer said it would allow Boryung Pharmaceuticals to market and sell Pradaxa in the local market, instead of doing so independently, in December. The decision has led
Seoul prosecutors Tuesday dropped the case against McDonald’s Korea wherein a mother claimed her four-year-old daughter got “hamburger disease” after eating an undercooked patty at the outlet.Hamburger disease refers to hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS), which is most commonly caused by an Escherichia coli (E. coli) infection. Some specific strains of E. coli passed on through contaminated f
Local hospitals advised people who prepare for lunar New Year’s Day celebrations to take note of and prevent common physical ailments that arise during the holidays, commonly referred to as “holiday syndrome.”In Korea, relatives, close and distant, get together on Seollal, which falls on Friday this year, to celebrate the first day of the lunar calendar and to pay respects to their elders and
Eli Lilly and Company said it expects to get insurance coverage for its stomach cancer drug Cyramza (ingredient: ramucirumab) in Korea by May, having received a favorable review from the health regulator’s benefits assessment panel.The Pharmaceutical Benefits Evaluation Committee of the national health insurance agency in January said it recognized the appropriateness of granting reimburse
New research has found not treating severe morning sickness could make maintaining a healthy, nutritious diet difficult for pregnant women, lead to a lower quality of life, and give birth to an underweight child.In the case of severe morning sickness, pregnant women may not be able to eat, leading to nutritional imbalance and thereby significantly influencing the health of the fetus, it said.
Economic hardship, unrelenting competition, and rising unemployment are starting to affect the physical and mental health of Koreans in their 20s, a local hospital said Monday.The stress-ridden life in modern Korean society is now leading droves of young Koreans to seek medical care at hospitals, breaking the widely held notion that those in their 20s are in their physical and mental prime