Merz Aesthetics launched its Ulthera Asia-Pacific campaign featuring three star-studded Korean actors as ambassadors to promote the pursuit of individual beauty with the aesthetic lifting device on Thursday evening at Sebitseom Convention Center in Seoul.Merz Aesthetics Ulthera is a U.S. FDA-approve
ATsens announced that it signed an MOU with a Polish state hospital, DCM Dolmed S.A., to supply AT-Patch, a patch-type electrocardiogram (ECG) device, to the latter.DCM Dolmed S.A. is the largest state hospital in Poland treating 1,300 patients daily.The hospital plans to introduce AT-Patch at the b
Coreline Soft, a provider of medical artificial intelligence (AI) solutions, said on Wednesday that its AI-based fully automatic contouring solution, AVIEW RT ACS, passed FDA 510 (k) certification.The FDA 510 (k) is a premarket approval required by all Class I, II, and III medical devices intended f
As the Covid-19 pandemic goes through its seventh wave in Korea, the one thing that persists is some people’s long Covid or post-Covid symptoms. While some are lucky to just be sick for one or two weeks, others suffer from these symptoms for an extended time.A 42-year-old woman living in Seoul who p
Seegene, a company specializing in molecular diagnostics, said it won a 62.7 billion won ($46.1 million) contract to supply its diagnostic reagents to Italy. Seegene said Italy Arrow Diagnostics S.r.l. had been selected as a supplier in the diagnostic reagent bidding, which the Tuscany government ho
Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) 2022 will kick off its five-day run at the McCormick Place Convention Center in Chicago, Ill., from Nov. 27 to Dec. 1. The conference will provide both in-person and virtual participation.RSNA is the world’s largest academic society consisting of over 48,
Lunit said on Monday that it became the first software as a medical device (SaMD) company in the Asia Pacific region to earn accreditations from the UK and Europe for its artificial intelligence (AI) medical solutions.Both Lunit INSIGHT CXR and Lunit INSIGHT MMG, an AI solution for chest radiology a
Philips Korea said Thursday that it has appointed Park Jae-in, former general manager (GM) at Abbott Korea, as its new CEO.New CEO Park will also serve as head of Philips Korea’s health systems business division, which provides professional healthcare solutions, the company said.Park has more than 2
Shares of GC MS were bullish on Wednesday after health officials confirmed the third monkeypox case in Korea.At the market close on Wednesday, the company's shares ended at 6,000 won ($4.53), up 3.45 percent from the previous trading day.Investors mistakenly considered GC MS as a monkeypox-related s
Lunit, a company specializing in medical artificial intelligence (AI) solutions, said on Wednesday that it acquired the operating rights in a bid for the Breast Screening New South Wales (BSNSW) state program in Australia.BSNSW is an Australian state-run program that provides free breast cancer scre
Humasis, an in vitro diagnosis kit maker, saw its sales drop sharply in the third quarter.According to industry watchers on Wednesday, the conflict between the company and its minority shareholders has also expanded to a management dispute, deepening worries about corporate competitiveness.Humasis u
Lance Little, head of Roche Diagnostics Asia Pacific, said the diagnostics industry should put priority on providing patient-centric services at an online conference on Tuesday.The company hosted the conference under the theme, “Partnering patients to revolutionize care in the Asia Pacific” involvin
Hanmi Science, which recently merged with affiliate Hanmi Healthcare, said it will strengthen its medical device business, including surgical materials.Hanmi Science, a holding company of Hanmi Group, decided to merge with its affiliates, Hanmi Healthcare, in September and completed the merger proce
Medical artificial intelligence (AI) solutions that assist medical professionals’ diagnosis are expanding their domain to skin diseases.LifeSemantics is one of the companies most active in developing AI solutions to diagnose skin diseases. In the K-HOSPITAL 2022 Fair held from Sept. 29 to Oct. 1, th
Closing the curtains on the first DTx Asia which was held in Seoul on Tuesday and Wednesday, Korea Biomedical Review pulled aside three experts in the DTx space to discuss the growing interest in DTx technologies and its outlook for the APAC region.Head of Welt USA Danny Kim, Click Therapeutics Dire
KT, a South Korean telecommunications giant, said it will invest $2 million (2.7 billion won) in Sonde Health, a U.S. voice biomarker development company, and start business cooperation.Under the agreement, KT plans to use Sonde Health's technology to upgrade its AI voice-based businesses such as ca
Johnson & Johnson’s Head of JLABS in Asia Pacific, Sharon Chan, moderated DTx Asia’s afternoon session on day two regarding digital therapeutic start-ups in the APAC region on Wednesday at the Novotel Ambassador Hotel in Seoul.JLABS is an incubator for start-ups in the pharmaceutical, medical device
Neurophet said it presented the research results on brain image analysis technology and brain disease prediction method using artificial intelligence (AI) during the International Congress on Magnetic Resonance Imaging 2022 (ICMRI 2022) in Seoul last week.During the conference, the company presented
A Korean government official in charge of reviewing digital health devices outlined three major criteria for the regulator’s review of digital therapeutics (DTx) products at DTx Asia in Seoul on Tuesday.In the afternoon session of DTx Asia, Han Young-min, Assistant Director of Digital Health Devices
Following the opening of the Canada-Korea Digital Health Innovation Forum 2022 on Tuesday, Korea Biomedical Review sat down with two Canadian companies specializing in healthcare digitalization and automation via software solutions.Verto CEO and founder Michael Millar specifically shared about his c