Siemens Healthineers said Friday it would participate in the 24th International Congress of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine at IFCC WorldLab Seoul 2022 from June 26-30 as a “gold sponsor.”It is the first time Korea will host the conference of about 50 global businesses, which will be held
The government approved the national lot release for 170 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines in 2021, making Korea a factory of Covid-19 vaccines for the globe.On Friday, the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety said it published and distributed the 2021 National Lot Release Report.The national lot relea
Kyung Hee University Medical Science Research Institute said it would develop digital therapeutics for obesity jointly with 365mc, Korea’s largest obesity clinic.The two sides will join forces to develop digital obesity treatment using artificial intelligence, smart devices, and customized obesity t
The biosimilar market is drawing much attention, especially after Celltrion and Samsung Bioepis became one of the leaders in the global biosimilar market.Other Korean pharmaceutical and biotech companies – such as Chong Kun Dang, Dong-A ST, LG Chem, Alteogen, and Prestige Biopharma – are pushing to
Roche Diagnostics Korea said on Friday that their cobas EBV and cobas BKV tests for monitoring viruses and infections of organ transplant patients have received approval from the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety.The cobas EBV test indicates the need for potential treatment changes in patients under
Canaria Bio said that it has agreed to start a joint clinical trial with GSK in patients with platinum-sensitive recurrent ovarian cancer. The two companies aim to confirm the safety and efficacy of combination therapy using Canaria Bio's Oregovomab and GSK's Zejula (ingredient: niraparib).Canaria B
Chinese pharmaceutical companies, including Antengene, Everest Medicines, and BeiGene, established Korean offshoots recently. Unlike other Chinese companies that used to export drug ingredients to Korea, these companies aim to target the Korean market with innovative drugs for serious diseases like
HLB Therapeutics will invest $30 million in Immunomic Therapeutics, HLB's U.S. affiliate developing the next-generation cell therapy anticancer vaccine.HLB Therapeutics said it signed a binding term sheet with Immunomic on Tuesday. Some outside investors also invested, acquiring bonds with warrants
The two subvariants of the Omicron variant -- BA.4 and BA.5 -- can easily cause infections even in recovered Covid-19 patients and fully vaccinated people, a U.S. study showed.Researchers at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston found that neutralizing antibodies
The National Institute of Food and Drug Safety Evaluation (NIFDS) under the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety said Thursday that it has significantly contributed to international cooperation for biopharmaceutical standardization and would continue to do so.The institute resolved so while publishing a
A Korea-Japan joint research team has developed the first skin-integrated antibacterial nano-mesh patch, which prevents infection while maintaining the skin's unique condition and sensation.Kwon Oh-seok of the Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology (KRIBB), Professor Someya Takao o
As the post-sales survey found new adverse reactions for Novartis' psoriasis treatment, Cosentyx (ingredient: secukinumab), the regulatory agency has set about to update the warning label for the treatment.Cosentyx, an interleukin (IL) inhibitor, has received approval to treat plaque psoriasis, psor
The suicide of professor Koh won-jung at Samsung Medical Center, an authority in tuberculosis and non-tuberculous mycobacteria (NTM), sent a great shock to the medical community in 2019.In the same year, another doctor killed himself. He was a thoracic surgeon treating patients for nearly 19 years a
International alliances, set up to respond to a global health crisis, failed to play their proper role in containing the Covid-19 pandemic, health experts said.Thus, they said it is urgent to establish a governance system under which the international community can cooperate to fight a global pandem
Domestic medical distributors have repeated their demand on multinational pharmaceutical companies to cooperate with improving the distribution margin for insulin preparations, threatening to take “drastic steps” if the companies continue to ignore their demand.According to industry insiders, the Ko
Kolon Pharmaceutical has voluntarily canceled the approval for Comiflu, a prescription flu medicine, after causing a controversy about whether its drug distribution to a daycare via a donation group without a doctor’s prescription was illegal.The Ministry of Food and Drug Safety said the permit for
Four Korean companies – VUNO, Lunit, Deepnoid, and SK C&C – signed a memorandum of understanding to launch a medical artificial intelligence alliance, jointly creating a medical AI ecosystem and making other business cooperation, VUNO said Thursday.Through this MOU, VUNO said it plans to revitalize
An international research team has found that when diffuse glioma recurs, there are apparent changes in tumor cells, and tumors with a specific phenotype have a poor prognosis.Diffuse glioma is a tumor that occurs in the brain's astrocytes, an intractable disease with frequent recurrence and exacerb
The government emphasized Wednesday that it is important to follow quarantine rules during the summer vacation period as there is a possibility of a resurgence of Covid-19."We view this summer as an important time that can serve as a fuse for reigniting the pandemic,” Vice Health and Welfare Ministe
A Yongin Severance Hospital research team has developed an electrocardiogram (ECG)-based AI algorithm that detects coronary artery atherosclerosis.Coronary artery atherosclerosis is a disease in which cholesterol deposits on the inner membrane, covering the innermost layer of blood vessels, and endo