Ybrain, a company specializing in mental health diagnostics and therapeutics, said on Wednesday prescriptions for MINDD STIM, a prescription depression electroceutical for at-home use, exceeded 6,000.MINDD STIMM is a wireless headband wearable device that delivers non-invasive brain stimulation thro
Wells Bio, a subsidiary of Access Bio, said it has obtained local approval for "careUS COVID/Flu A&B Antigen Duo," a diagnostic kit that simultaneously detects the Covid-19 virus and influenza A/B viruses.The kit tests SARS-CoV-2 antigen and influenza virus type A and B antigens through an immunochr
The upcoming CES 2023, to be held from Jan.5-8 next year in Las Vegas, Nev., in the U.S., will offer a 40 percent larger venue, becoming the largest in-person meet in the U.S. since 2020, the event organizer Consumer Technology Association said. Hundreds of tech industry leaders will gather at the J
ATsens, a bio-signal-based healthcare platform company, said on Tuesday that its patch-type long-term continuous electrocardiogram (AT-Patch, ATP-C130) obtained U.S. FDA approval on Oct. 10.AT-Patch is the first domestic long-term continuous wearable electrocardiogram (ECG) device to be licensed in
VUNO said on Tuesday that its artificial intelligence (AI)-based bone age reading assistance solution, VUNO Med-BoneAge, has obtained medical device certification from the Taiwanese Food and Drug Administration (TFDA).Vuno had already signed a local distribution contract with CHC Healthcare Group, T
Lunit said its artificial intelligence (AI)-based imaging analysis solution Lunit Insight CXR's reading accuracy was similar to that of a radiologist with more than 20 years of experience in a recent study. Lunit conducted the study jointly with the University of Edinburgh's Queen's Medical Research
Lunit, a company specializing in medical artificial intelligence (AI) solutions, said on Thursday that the number of domestic and foreign medical institutions using its AI imaging solutions for mammography and chest X-ray has surpassed 1,000.Lunit Insight CXR diagnoses 10 chest diseases such as lung
Neofect, a company specializing in digital rehabilitation, is facing financial troubles as it failed to pay back the principal plus interest.According to the company, it has failed to pay back the principal and interest worth 3.3 billion won ($2.3 million), which is equivalent to 21.5 percent of the
VUNO said it has obtained the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety (MFDS) certification for Hativ P30, an artificial intelligence (AI)-based electrocardiogram (ECG) device for at-home use. The device analyzes ECG data to check normal sinus rhythm, atrial fibrillation, bradycardia, and tachycardia.The sm
Neurophet said Thursday that the company signed a contract to provide brain disease image analysis service for the Korea National Institute of Health (NIH) to establish research data for reading and studying brain disease image data.“The project to build research data through reading brain disease i
In-vitro diagnostic medical device companies, whose stock prices soared amid expectations for growth during the COVID-19 pandemic, are struggling to escape from a recent slump.Top diagnostic companies, including Seegene, SD Biosensor, and Humasis, have also seen their share prices drop sharply.Seege
Plasmapp, a bio plasma technology company, said it would expand its research and development (R&D) platform to accelerate the development of its pipeline biomedical devices by going public on the Kosdaq market this month.The company was founded at the lab of the Korea Advanced Institute of Science a
Korea is utilizing only a fraction of the potential of next generation sequencing (NGS) and has yet to recognize the full value of the platform, Illumina's sales head for the Asia region said."Korea should make efforts to let the public know the cost-effectiveness of NGS in reducing medical costs,"
Panagene, a domestic molecular diagnostics company, said on Tuesday that it obtainedapproval from the Ministry of Food and Drug Administration (MFDS) for its PNA Clamp TERT Mutation Detection Kit.The telomerase reverse transcriptase (TERT) gene is a key factor in elongating telomeres, a repeatable s
“Patient-centeredness" is essential to develop digital healthcare, an expert pointed out Thursday. Moving away from the existing evaluation of commercial viability, it is necessary to look at it differently with an assessment focusing on the value that can be given to patients, the expert added.Lee
NGeneBio said on Friday it has developed a prototype of a blood-based in vitro diagnostic device to detect early dementia using a biomarker discovered in the National Dementia Research and Development project.The importance of early diagnosis of dementia is growing in Korea with the rapid population
Vuno, a company specialising in global medical artificial intelligence (AI) solutions, said on Thursday that its AI-based fundus reading solution VUNO Med-Fundus AI has obtained medical device certification from Singapore’s Health Sciences Authority (HSA).Singapore is attracting attention as a bridg
All automatic dyeing devices for biopsy introduced by Abbott Korea have become the targets of recall by the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety, it was learned.According to the ministry, the regulator has recently put Abbott Korea’s automatic dyeing device, Alinity h-series, on its list subject to reca
Deep Bio said it signed a partnership with Visiopharm, a Danish pharmaceutical company, to supply DeepDx Prostate, its deep learning-based prostate cancer pathology image analysis software.Under the agreement, Deep Bio will be able to expand pathologists' access to advanced AI pathology solutions by
MiCo BioMed, an in-vitro diagnostic medical device maker, said it obtained the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety’s export approval for its monkeypox test kit on Wednesday.MiCo BioMed developed the test kit, called “'Veri-Q MCMPx-VS,” through the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency’s 2016 rese