A research team at the Catholic University of Korea Yeouido St. Mary’s Hospital has developed "Eyenet," an intraocular lens (IOL) simulator that allows patients to experience vision through a multifocal IOL before eye surgery.Their study was published in the March issue of Translational Vision Scien
As the government extended the seven-day quarantine mandate for Covid-19 patients for four more weeks last Friday, officials said they could lift the mandate before June 17 if only six indicators meet their criteria.However, on Monday, experts expressed negative views on terminating the mandatory qu
Syntekabio said Monday that it completed domestic patent registration for its neoantigen immunotherapy information delivery system and method utilizing a molecular dynamics big data-based artificial intelligence model called "NEO-ARS.”Neoantigens are mutant peptides that do not appear in normal cell
Janssen said Monday it has presented a study supporting the hypothesis that Tremfya, a psoriasis treatment, may differ in pharmacological mechanisms from its competitors because of its ability to bind to CD64+ cells and IL-23.The company presented the study's results, MODIF-Y, during the annual gene
DIO said Monday it has signed a product training and supply contract with a global dental service organization (DSO), following a previous supply agreement with another large distributor with 100,000 dental clinics in the U.S.DIO said it would provide sequential training on its digital implant "DIOn
Recently, a man in his 70s assaulted a physician by wielding a sickle at an emergency room (ER) of a general hospital in Yongin, Gyeonggi Province.Enraged by continued violence against healthcare professionals, the medical community blamed the police’s lukewarm response and the law enforcement’s wea
Hanmi Pharmaceutical and KT, one of Korea's top three telecom companies, said that they have jointly invested in digital therapeutics (DTx) developer Digital Pharm, a subsidiary of the Catholic University of Korea's holdings company.In October, Digital Pharm, founded by Professor Kim Dae-jin at Seou
Lunit said that Lunit Insight, its artificial intelligence-based imaging analysis solution, has obtained Class 2 Medical Device approval from Health Canada.With the approval, Lunit will be able to market Lunit INSIGHT CXR, a chest X-ray image analysis solution, and Lunit INSIGHT MMG, a mammography i
SK Bioscience, which once made a strong stock market debut in March last year, is now struggling with sliding price of its shares on Kospi.Analysts said that to boost the stock price struggling to surpass 100,000 won ($77.4), the company has to present investors with detailed achievements from the v
The world’s trade ministers reached an agreement to allow a partial intellectual property (IP) waiver for Covid-19 vaccines at the 12th Ministerial Conference (MC-12) of the World Trade Organization in Geneva, Switzerland, on Friday.Korean Covid-19 vaccine makers are paying keen attention to how the
The government decided Friday to prolong the seven-day mandatory quarantine of people infected by the Covid-19 virus for four more weeks, reflecting concerns about a resurge.The current virus spread is manageable, but concerns linger, and Covid-19 deaths have not sufficiently dropped, Prime Minister
The loss of routines in the lives of Korean people caused by Covid-19 appeared to have affected their physical states by, for instance, growing a muffin top.According to the "2017-2021 Nutrient Deficiency and Obesity Statistics" released by the Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service on April
About 95 percent of Covid-19 patients who received contactless Oriental medical care said they were satisfied with Oriental medicine. Asked whether they would choose Oriental medicine to treat infectious diseases in the future, 95 percent said yes.On Friday, the Association of Korean Medicine (AKOM)
Under the former Moon Jae-in administration, the Korean Medical Association (KMA) collided with the government on almost every health issue.Defying the government’s plan to establish a new public medical school to increase doctors at state-run hospitals, medical school students even refused to take
A research team at Seoul National University Hospital (SNUH) has revealed an association between structural changes in the cortico-striatal circuit and the pathophysiology of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) patients.Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a disease in which certain thoughts, impu
Korean pharmaceutical companies are racing to develop a lipid nanoparticle (LNP) drug delivery technology, each using a different strategy.Those actively pursuing LNP development are Daewoong Pharmaceutical, Dong-A Socio Holdings, GC Biopharma, and Yuhan Corp.LNP is a drug delivery system key to dev
The Korea Institute of Science and Technology and the National Cancer Center signed a business agreement Friday for research and policy projects to overcome cancer and infectious diseases.Under the accord, the two institutions plan to utilize the research capabilities of KIST and the health infrastr
The Ministry of Food and Drug Safety said Korean businesses’ development of software medical devices, including digital therapeutics, has increased recently.In a report released Thursday, the ministry provided the current status of software medical devices under development in various medical fields
CG Bio said it has signed contracts to export 5.7 billion won ($4.4 million) worth of Facetem S and AiLEENE, its filler products, to the Middle East and Sweden.The company will export 4.9 billion won worth of its HA fillers to seven Middle East countries, including Syria and the Gulf Cooperation Org
Even if Korea has a very high antibody-positive rate, it will be difficult to achieve herd immunity in theory due to new variants and fading antibodies over time, the health authorities said Thursday.“In a situation where mutations occur continuously, even if more than 90 percent of Koreans form ant