SK Bioscience said Turkey’s health authorities granted GMP certification to its vaccine plant, raising the chance of exporting self-developed vaccines.On Friday, the company said that the Turkish Medicines and Medical Devices Agency renewed GMP certification on the L House’s vaccine facility, manufa
MSD’s anti-PD-1 immunotherapy Keytruda (pembrolizumab) offered much more benefit than Takeda’s Adcetris (brentuximab vedotin) in progression-free survival and quality of life in relapsed/refractory classical Hodgkin lymphoma (cHL), a study showed.The latest issue of Blood Advances, published by the
Huons Global said it has completed restructuring its medical device business division by merging its subsidiary, Huons Medicare and Huons Medical, into Huons Meditech.Huons Meditech named Lee Sang-man as the company's first CEO. The company said that Lee would expand target markets at home and abroa
The government is likely to approve more Covid-19 self-test devices to meet the spiking demand for Covid-19 tests, sources said.Korea Biomedical Review learned on Friday that the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety (MFDS) would authorize some Covid-19 home test kits soon.“There are companies that appli
Amid the moves to ease quarantine controls in some European countries, a ranking quarantine official made it clear Thursday that Korea cannot adopt such a policy, saying, “Our situation is different from them.”“We are taking into account foreign countries’ quarantine policy. However, it is kind of h
The two leading presidential candidates and their camps exchanged verbal battles during the Lunar New Year holiday over foreign residents’ health insurance coverage.On Sunday, Yoon Suk-yeol, the standard-bearer of the conservative opposition People Power Party (PPP), said he would strengthen the reg
A research team presented a biomarker that could predict the treatment response of the lenalidomide maintenance therapy widely used in multiple myeloma (MM) for the first time.The team found that progression-free survival (PFS) and overall survival (OS) were meaningfully short in MM patients with hi
Shinpoong Pharmaceutical has completed an overseas clinical trial of antimalarial treatment Pyramax (ingredient: artesunate/pyronaridine), drawing attention to the study results.According to clinicaltrials.gov, the status of the Phase 2/3 study NCT05192265 for malaria indication has been updated as
The Korean pharmaceutical industry rolled out four home-grown new medicines in 2021. Industry watchers are paying attention to which company will introduce a new drug in 2022.Observers said companies conducting or finishing phase 3 trials to finalize the safety and efficacy might release new drugs t
Yuyu Pharmaceutical has launched Nagran Oral Disintegrating Tablet (Ingredient: Naratriptan), the first generic drug for GSK’s Naramig, a migraine treatment.Patients can use orally disintegrating tablets to relieve migraine headaches rapidly. The company has increased convenience by allowing patient
inno.N said Thursday that it has signed a contract with Malaysia’s Pharmaniaga Logistics to export its gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) therapy, K-CAB, to the Southeast Asian country.Under the accord, Pharmaniaga will have the exclusive right to distribute K-caps in Malaysia for five years. Th
Hugel said it obtained product approval from the French drug ministry (Agence Nationale de Sécurité du Médicament) for Letybo, its botulinum toxin formulation, for treating forehead wrinkles last Thursday.The approval follows Hugel receiving a recommendation for approval of the product approval for
Food and Drug Safety Minister Kim Gang-lip visited Humasis, a diagnostic agent manufacturer, in Gunpo, Gyeonggi Province, on Wednesday.Kim was accompanied by Jeong Jae-ho, director of the Medical Device Management Division at the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety (MFDS), and four executives from Huma
Two years have passed since the Ministry of Health and Welfare set about to train physician-scientists in the country by introducing the “Program to Foster Convergent Physician-Scientists” in 2019.The government’s program was designed to help talents interested in primary medicine take the path of m
Establishing environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) management strategy is drawing attention as a critical task for biopharmaceutical companies.The Korea Biotechnology Industry Organization (Korea BIO) concluded at its "2022 Bio Industry New Year Forum" last Friday designed to share E
The medical community recently inaugurated a society to research how to apply metaverse, a convergence of virtual and physical space, to the healthcare sector.On Thursday, professors from the Seoul National University College of Medicine launched the “Medical Metaverse Research Society.”The group ai
The government has not decided whether to provide a fourth jab to high-risk groups, Prime Minister Kim Boo-kyum said Friday."There is an opinion that people in the high-risk group should receive a fourth vaccination," Kim said during an appearance on Yonhap News TV, a local news channel. "We will ma
As the Covid-19 pandemic is again ravaging the global community due to the spread of the Omicron variant, Korea's in vitro diagnostic medical devices are in the spotlight again amid rising demands.According to the Korea Customs Service, exports of antigen and antibody diagnostic kits amounted to $44
Hong Seung-il, CEO of Healing Paper, which operates GangnamUnni, a mobile app for plastic surgery reviews, received suspended imprisonment in the first trial for illegally attracting patients through the app.Hong lured 9,215 patients to 71 hospitals by selling the hospitals’ beauty procedure coupons
Coreline Soft said it has finalized a contract to supply its AI solutions for lung cancer screening to Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori (INTM), a state-run cancer center in Milan, Italy.With this contract, Coreline Soft will supply aview:LCS, its AI chest diagnosis solution, to INTM and a lung cancer s