Life Semantics said it would launch non-face-to-face medical services for Koreans in the U.S. by partnering with Meta-K Intelligence.In November, Meta-K Intelligence signed an MOU with the Korean American Chamber of Commerce and Industry to provide various non-face-to-face treatments and offer medic
“Psoriasis treatment aims to achieve ‘almost or completely clean skin (PASI 90/100).’ But, in addition to improving skin conditions, it is important to detect complications like psoriatic arthritis at an early stage through primary screening.”So said professor Choi Yong-beom of dermatology at Konkuk
Samyang Biopharm USA, a global biotech subsidiary of Samyang Holdings Corp., said on Thursday that it appointed Ryu Eun-ju as its new CEO.Ryu is a new drug business strategist and marketing expert with more than 30 years of experience in global clinical trial management and drug approval, business d
Daewon Pharmaceutical said it has won approval from the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation for Pelubi, its non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID), and will launch it under the brand name Pelubio.Daewon will produce Pelubi at its plant in Gyeonggi Province and export it to Russia. Pha
As the escalating Omicron wave overwhelms health workers and quarantine officials, Korea will implement a new at-home treatment system focusing on high-risk Covid-19 patients 60 or older and those with preexisting medical conditions from Thursday.Quarantine authorities will make daily checkups only
Institutional and individual investors' views on pharmaceutical stocks sharply divided in the first month of 2022.Stock market pharmaceutical sector index companies’ net purchase and sales in January (Unit: 100 million)According to the Korea Exchange, institutional and foreign investors’ net sellin
The Ministry of Health and Welfare and Korea Health Industry Development Institute (KHIDI) said they operated a "Korea Medical Equipment Integrated Exhibition Hall" at the "Arab Health 2022."Arab Health is one of the world's four major medical device exhibitions. This year’s event was held in Dubai,
Manufacturers of Covid-19 home test kits criticized the health authorities for artificially controlling the supply of their products, saying the products are not reaching testing facilities in time.Early this month, the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety (MFDS) took “market stabilization measures,” in
Biotech companies developing an mRNA-based Covid-19 vaccine are busy responding to the Omicron variant.They are conducting clinical trials of existing candidate vaccines and simultaneously studying their efficacy against virus variants.According to the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety’s data release
SK Bioscience said that it has shipped out the first 840,000 doses of Nuvaxovid, Korea's first synthetic antigen-based Covid-19 vaccine, from its plant in Andong, North Gyeongsang Province, on Wednesday.The shipment follows the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety's approval for the vaccine on Jan. 12.
A Seoul National University Bundang Hospital (SNUBH) research team has found that antibacterial treatment that removes Helicobactor pylori can improve glycated hemoglobin levels.Helicobacter pylori is a parasitic bacterium between the gastric mucosa and mucus and cause gastritis, functional dyspepsi
Combined sales of Korean contract research organizations surpassed those of foreign CROs for the first time in 2020, industry data showed.The robust sales growth of local CROs is attributed to Korean drugmakers and biotech firms’ aggressive drive for new drug development. However, to enhance their g
Pharmaceutical industry officials are paying attention to how the Korean government will manage health insurance benefits for medicines that cure diseases with a single injection but cost millions of dollars.Recently, the government said it would review introducing a new reimbursement system exclusi
The ruling and opposition parties are seeking to allow voters confirmed to have Covid-19 or those in self-quarantine to cast ballots separately from others from 6-9 p.m. on the presidential election day of March 9.Officials from rival parties said Tuesday that they would hold plenary and subgroup me
Doctors and nurses, the two pillars in Korea’s fights against Covid-19, had long quarreled over nurses’ demand to enact a law to protect their rights amid the pandemic, triggering criticism from the public.Their squabble finally rose to the surface recently.Last Thursday, a group within the Korean M
A Korean research team proposed a detailed classification method based on cancer stem cell RNA characteristics and customized, targeted therapy for intractable hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) that does not respond to existing treatments.The research team, led by professor Lee Sung-hwan at the Departm
Boryung Biopharma said it acquired Forbio Korea’s research unit and established a subsidiary, BPgene, to develop mRNA drugs.Forbio Korea is a developer of biological substances. Since 2014, the company has been working on new drug development using its mRNA technology.Boryung Biopharma invested in F
NeoImmuneTech said on Monday it completed the administration of NT-I7 (efineptakin alfa), a new skin cancer drug, in combination with Roche’s Tecentriq (atezolizumab) to the first patient in a phase 2 trial in the U.S.The Korean biotech company gets all doses of Tecentriq for the trial from Roche.Th
Embarrassed with the Omicron variant’s faster-than-expected spread, the government has hurriedly revised its medical and quarantine system, including using emergency beds dedicated to Covid-19 and setting up “cohort quarantine areas” in emergency rooms.However, while largely agreeing with its overal
Yuhan Corp.’s non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) treatment Leclaza (lazertinib) is likely to score the regulatory nod soon, observers said.The Ministry of Food and Drug Safety’s central pharmaceutical affairs advisory committee recently agreed to allow Yuhan to replace a confirmatory clinical trial