Pfizer Korea said Thursday that the Ministry of Health and Welfare would begin to reimburse Somavert, its acromegaly treatment, from this month.According to the current standard, the health authorities reimburse Somarvert to patients over 18 with acromegaly who have received surgery and radiation th
Innovative AI healthcare companies are boasting their technologies at the 77th Korean Congress of Radiology 2021 (KCR 2021), offering a chance to experience AI solutions on-site and presenting how radiologists can use those solutions.KCR is one of the leading radiology conferences in Asia hosted by
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Domestic companies are jumping into the fray to develop therapies for stroke, like their multinational counterparts who have struggled to see significant results in their clinical trials.Actilyse (ingredient: alteplase), a tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) developed by Boehringer Ingelheim, is the
Health authorities said that if the six million doses of Moderna's Covid-19 vaccine do not arrive in time, it could be hard to achieve the government's immunization goals.Moderna had said that it would supply less than half of the 8.5 million doses scheduled for supply in August due to a production
GSK and the German biopharmaceutical company CureVac said their second-generation mRNA Covid-19 vaccine demonstrated an improved immune response than the first generation, marking higher neutralizing antibody capacity against the variant strains.The preclinical study assessed the Covid-19 immune res
Korean pharmaceutical companies are actively conducting R&D to secure a share in the 21 trillion won ($18.1 billion) global gastric acid blocker market.In foreign markets, they are particularly focusing on commercializing potassium-competitive acid blockers (P-CABs), the next-generation treatment fo
Jazz Pharmaceuticals, SK Biopharmaceuticals’ U.S. partner, said that it has received sales approval for Sunosi (Ingredient: solriamfetol), a new sleep disorder drug, from the Canadian health authorities.With the approval, hospitals can prescribe the drug to treat adult patients suffering from excess
Boryung Pharmaceutical said Wednesday that it has launched Onbevzi, a biosimilar for Avastin (Ingredient: bevacizumab) developed by Samsung Bioepis in Korea.The launch comes after Boryung acquired exclusive sales rights in Korea for Onbevzi from Samsung in May of this year. According to the company,
The National Health Insurance Service (NHIS) said that the reimbursement claims for anticancer drugs last year amounted to about 1.91 trillion won ($1.6 billion), accounting for 9.3 percent of the total drug reimbursement payouts of 20.3 trillion won.According to the NHIS, medical expenses for healt
Vuno said Wednesday that its artificial intelligence-based solution reading chest X-ray image, VUNO Med-Chest X-ray, has obtained marketing approval from the Taiwan Food and Drug Administration (TFDA).The company signed an exclusive sales agreement with Taiwan’s CHC Healthcare Group (CHC), the large
The Korea Exchange granted a one-year grace period for Kolon TissueGene, delaying the decision whether to delist the company from the Kosdaq market.Last year, the government revoked the permit for the company’s gene therapy Invossa-K over mislabeling an ingredient and falsely reporting it to the reg
Eyegene said it received the regulatory nod for a local clinical trial of an mRNA Covid-19 vaccine.The company uses its technology, different from mRNA Covid-19 vaccines by Moderna or Pfizer/BioNTech. As a result, industry watchers are paying attention to whether Eyegene can commercialize the vaccin
The government said it is pushing for a plan to change its social distancing scheme application period from the existing two to three weeks to a monthly interval from next week."We will adjust the distancing scheme and quarantine rules while discussing how to implement such strategies on a monthly b
KangStem Biotech said that it has signed a deal with Seoul National University’s R&DB Foundation to receive the university’s skin organoid manufacturing technology.The technology uses a three-dimensional (3D) air-liquid interface (ALI) skin organoid preparation from human pluripotent stem cells for
Researchers from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) and Chungnam National University Hospital (CNUH) have found that the antiviral function of natural killer (NK) cells weakens in Covid-19 patients.According to the team, led by Professors Shin Eui-chul of the College of Medic
The digital therapeutics (DTx) market has grown rapidly, particularly since the outbreak of Covid-19, and companies are increasingly developing video games like DTx.However, people need to change negative views on video games first to spur the growth of the video game-based DTx market, a report said
The Korean government announced on Monday that it planned to provide booster shots to the fully vaccinated against Covid-19 in the fourth quarter.An Israeli study showed that a third dose of the Pfizer vaccine is indeed effective in preventing Covid-19 infection.On Friday, the Israel Ministry of Hea
SK Bioscience has started administering Covid-19 vaccine candidate GBP510, jointly developed with the Institute for Protein Design (IPD) at the University of Washington, in phase 3 clinical trials.The company’s clinical trials are the first domestic phase 3 study of the Covid-19 vaccine approved by
A local joint research team said that they had discovered a potential therapy for adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD) -- also called the “Lorenzo’s oil disease” after a movie title -- through the gene scissor technique.The team, led by Professor Cho Sung-rae of the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine at Se