Bukwang Pharmaceutical said it recently sought the local marketing approval for Lurasidone, a new drug for schizophrenia and bipolar depression developed by Japan's Sumitomo Pharmaceutical.The application follows Bukwang’s 2017 deal with Sumitomo to secure the drug's exclusive development and distri
Orum Therapeutics, specializing in tumor-directed targeted protein degraders (TPDs), said on Tuesday that it completed the first patient dose with ORM-5029 in a U.S. phase 1 clinical trial for patients with HER2-expressing advanced solid tumors.ORM-5029 is one of two lead programs from the company’s
Korea's top quarantine advisor predicted that the mask duty could be completely lifted after the next Covid-19 outbreak during the winter season as long as a completely new variant does not appear."The idea that we can take off our indoor masks next spring if there are no completely new variants has
BMS Pharmaceutical Korea has obtained permission for a series of blood cancer treatments this year, increasing its weight in the domestic market.Starting with a nod for the treatment of acute myeloid leukemia, Onureg (azacitidine), in March, it obtained approvals for Inreㅠic (pedratinib), a treatmen
KAIST said on Monday that its joint research team identified the overexpression of mt-dsRNAs as a biomarker which can aid treatments of the rare and incurable autoimmune disease, Sjögren's syndrome.Sjögren's syndrome invades exocrine glands such as tear glands and salivary glands. Occular and oral d
Ferring Pharmaceuticals' recent decision to suspend global shipments of Menopur, an infertility treatment, is likely to bring a shortage of the drug in Korea, officials said.The news comes after Business Insider reported that Elizabeth Garner, Ferring's chief science officer, reportedly sent out an
The Halloween festive night in Itaewon suddenly turned tragic on Saturday after hundreds of people were caught up in a fatal crowd crush incident, killing at least 154 people and injuring 149 others.Among the deceased were 26 foreigners from 14 countries. Five were from Iran, four from China, four f
Gangnam Severance Hospital said on Monday that it was possible to control long-term convulsions and improve cognitive development in Lennox-Gastaut syndrome (LGS) patients after sequentially applying various therapies.LGS is an intractable epilepsy with various causes of brain structural abnormaliti
At the scene of the deadly stampede in Itaewon over the weekend, initial responses were dismally insufficient, failing to provide proper first aid to severely injured people, an emergency medicine expert said.“In a disastrous situation, the role of the nearest hospital and that of the next-phase hos
Korean psychiatrists raised serious concerns over the online videos showing the tragedy of the crowd crush in Itaewon on Saturday night, saying such footage could inflict additional psychological trauma on the bereaved family.According to emergency officials as of 9 a.m. on Monday, 154 people, mostl
An Israeli health expert said preventing 19A serotype was an important factor to consider when using pediatric pneumococcal vaccines.Pfizer Korea invited Professor Ron Dagan of Pediatrics and Infectious Diseases at the Ben-Gurion University to speak on the latest regional epidemiological data on pne
OliPass, a Korean company specializing in RNA treatment platform, received an upfront fee of $3 million (4.3 billion won) from Vanda Pharmaceuticals, a U.S. biopharmaceutical company, regarding a joint research and development contract for a new RNA-based treatment.On Sept. 29, the two companies sig
As Korea is seeing a slow increase in daily new Covid-19 cases, quarantine authorities have expressed concerns about the rise in severity and fatality rate from the virus."On Friday, the number of new Covid-19 infections was around 35,000, and the R0, or an estimated reproductive rate of how many pe
There are countries where telemedicine has become a necessity, not an option.Some Asian countries, worried about the gap in medical infrastructure between regions, see telemedicine as a breakthrough. For instance, telemedicine has become a new routine in Vietnam with active participation by medical
Syntekabio said on Thursday that it officially launched STB CLOUD, an AI new drug cloud platform service that applies its own cloud system based on its supercomputing infrastructure.STB CLOUD is an AI new drug cloud platform service that works together with the AI synthetic new drug candidate discov
Hugel said the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) started reviewing its biologics license application (BLA) for Letybo (brand name in Korea: Botulax), its botulinum toxin (BTX) formulation, to treat forehead wrinkles on Tuesday.This is the second time that Hugel filed a BLA for Letybo to the FD
AITRICS said Thursday it has won approval from the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety for its AITRICS-VC, or Vital Care, AI software that helps diagnose by predicting the aggravation of patients’ conditions.Vital Care is an AI monitoring system that predicts the deaths of patients at intensive care un
The International Council of Nurses (ICN) has come forward to help Korean Nurses Association (KNA). The global nursing body praised KNA’s push to enact the Nursing Law as an exemplary example of a global nursing strategy to protect the future healthcare system.ICN CEO Howard Catton said so at the “I
North Korea reported a total of 133,000 tuberculosis patients in 2021, a slight decrease from a year earlier but still considered relatively high, the World Health Organization (WHO) said in its Global Tuberculosis Report 2022 on Thursday.Tuberculosis is caused by bacteria called mycobacterium tuber
Huons Global said it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Lotte Biologics for conducting clinical trials and producing new drug candidates .Under the contract, Huons Global will manufacture and produce investigational biopharmaceuticals at Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS)’s U.S. plant in Sy