Opdivo (nivolumab), an anti-PD-1 immunotherapy, will likely receive insurance benefits soon as the primary treatment of progressive stomach cancer.The agenda item on expanding Opdivo’s reimbursement passed the fifth drug reimbursement evaluation committee meeting under the auspices of the Health Ins
The number of mpox cases in Korea went up by 16 from April 30 to last Saturday, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 60.Among the 16 cases, 11 came from Seoul, two from Gyeonggi Province, and one each from Incheon, Busan, and Gwangju, according to the Korea Disease Control and Prevention
The Ministry of Food and Drug Safety has worked out a temporary permissible standard (daily dose) for atenolol-based hypertension drugs that caused controversy due to the detection of nitrosamine impurities.It decided not to withdraw them from the market.Oh Jeong-won, director of the Pharmaceutical
As the number of mpox cases continues to rise in Korea, the country's quarantine authorities have decided to extend the target group for the third-generation mpox vaccine to include sexual minorities.The quarantine authorities are using the third-generation mpox vaccines in two ways -- pre-exposure
The Ministry of Food and Drug Safety and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration concluded a memorandum of cooperation (MOC) on medical products based on artificial intelligence last Thursday (local time).According to the Korean regulator on Tuesday, Minister Oh Yu-kyoung and Commissioner Robert M. Ca
As expensive new anticancer drugs keep coming, the government must revise the current financial sharing system that offers excessive patient benefits to improve health insurance’s finance and expand patients’ access to treatments.Professor Kim Seong-bae of the Oncology Department at Asan Medical Cen
The number of mpox cases in Korea went up by 17 from Monday last week to Sunday, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 47.According to the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA), five cases were added between Friday and Sunday.By region, among the five cases, three were confirm
Local doctors said the treatment environment for severe asthma in Korea is subpar and called for expanded reimbursement of biological treatments to improve care.The Korean Asthma and Allergy Association held a press conference on Thursday at the Grand InterContinental Seoul Parnas ahead of World Ast
The number of mpox cases in Korea has increased by 10 since last Friday, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 30.According to the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA), it confirmed four new cases each on Friday and Saturday and two new cases on Sunday.All 10 patients had no
Korean healthcare companies are tapping into the rapidly growing Southeast Asian market, driven by the region's active economy and expanding healthcare industry along with the economic and population growth.According to Korea's National Institute of Medical Device Safety Information, the medical dev
First-time patients in non-face-to-face treatment introduced temporarily to cope with the Covid-19 pandemic accounted for 9 percent of the total telemedicine services provided.Besides, the share of first-time patients in non-contract care was highest in the dermatology department, with 26 percent.Sh
A group of spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) patients and the Solidary Against Disability Discrimination (SADD) took to the street Thursday, demanding the improvement of standards for suspending insurance benefits for Spinraza (nusinursen).After Spinraza received insurance benefits, many SMA patients ha
Calls are mounting for Korea to reduce foreign dependency and increase the self-supply ratio of active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) to prepare for the escalating hegemonic rivalry between the U.S. and Korea.On March 31, the U.S. Treasury Department announced a detailed guideline on exempting ta
The Ministry of Health and Welfare expressed an intention to advance the discussion to increase the medical school enrollment quota with the Korean Medical Association at the Medical Affairs Council, a consultative body on medical issues.Song Yang-soo, director of the ministry’s Medical Personnel Po
The biopharmaceutical industry has called for the government to provide more support for raising self-sufficiency rates of medical materials and essential drugs.Industry executives made the call in the sixth K-Life & Bio Forum, which sought ways to strengthen the localization of essential medicines
The stroke safety net is at risk of collapsing without the establishment of a control center to oversee the entire stroke treatment network, said a local stroke expert.At a press conference in Seoul on Wednesday, the Korea Stroke Society (KSS) elaborated on the issues faced by Korea’s emergency medi
In a cabinet meeting chaired by President Yoon Suk Yeol on Tuesday, the government decided to expand financial support for drug treatment and rehabilitation.As part of the plan, the government aims to increase the business operations fund and treatment costs at the 24 hospitals designated as drug tr
As the community transmission of mpox increases, pharmaceutical companies capable of dealing with the virus are attracting attention.On Tuesday, the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) confirmed that three more patients with mpox who have not traveled abroad were identified, bringing
Korea Orphan and Essential Drug Center (KOEDC) has reported a supply disruption of Ivexproglycem Suspension (ingredient: diazoxide), which is used to treat hypoglycemia caused by hyperinsulinemia.Ivexproglycem Suspension is used as a temporary measure before surgery for conditions such as non-operab
To detect danger signals quickly that could lead to suicide, including depression, and provide treatment, mental health checkups will be conducted every two years like physical health checkups.The government finalized the “Firth Suicide Prevention Basic Plan (2023-2027) at a meeting of the Suicide P