The waning effect of Covid-19 vaccines and the emergence of variants make it almost impossible to achieve herd immunity against the pandemic, and people will have to live with Covid-19 for a long time, skeptics say.However, strategies focusing on T cell responses can help overcome the Covid-19 pande
Maria Trading, a trusted distributor of medical aesthetics products in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), has signed an agreement with a Korean company, Coous Global, to supply Coresculpt 2CH, which helps build up muscles.Maria Trading was founded in 2004 and has since delivered promising aesthetics de
Medpacto’s research team has developed a novel way to decrease the size of a drug down to nanoparticles and encapsulate it to penetrate the pancreatic cancer tissue easier.The company’s size-switchable nanosystem is designed to deliver two different drugs sequentially for enhanced chemotherapy in ca
With pharmaceutical companies, local and foreign, racing against time to develop an oral Covid-19 treatment, health officials said they were ready to sign a purchase contract after monitoring the development status."The government is monitoring the developing situations of oral Covid-19 treatment an
Gyeonggi Province said it would install mobile clinic modules (MCM) to use them as a treatment community center for Covid-19 patients in self-treatment and short-term treatment amid the prolonged Covid-19 pandemic.The mobile clinic modules (MCM), developed as the world’s first mobile negative-pressu
Novartis Korea said Thursday that the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety has approved Luxturna, its inherited retinal dystrophy (IRD) treatment.According to the company, the approval marks the first IRD gene therapy for patients with RPE65 gene mutation and has sufficient retinal cells in Korea. The m
Migrants showed a high suicide rate in Korea, already notorious for having the highest suicide rate among OECD members.WeFriends, also known as the Migrant Health Association in Korea, surveyed 102 Nepali, Chinese, and Burmese migrant workers at high suicide risk to learn their mental health status
Genuone Sciences plans to export 3 billion won ($2.5 million) worth of Neopol Vaginal Soft Capsule, a treatment of vaginal candidiasis and nonspecific bacterial vaginosis, to Algeria through its local partner, Soprophal, for three years.Under an accord, Genu Pharma, the Korean company's subsidiary,
Huons said it would conduct a test to verify how strong the Russian Sputnik V Covid-19 vaccine can protect people against the Delta variant.The company and Korea University's Biosafety Center plan to confirm the preventive efficacy against the Delta variant with an animal model using a hamster for t
Researchers from three university hospitals have developed a technology to synthesize RNA protein suitable for treating congenital retinal diseases.Congenital retinal disease, caused by a genetic mutation, is the leading cause of blindness in children inflicting about two million patients worldwide,
Pfizer’s Vyndamax (tafamidis), a treatment for transthyretin amyloid cardiomyopathy (ATTR-CM), got in the European Society of Cardiology’s (ESC) list of recommended drugs for heart failure.However, observers said it is uncertain whether the treatment would be reimbursable in Korea because of its hig
Korea marked a new record in the share of infections with unknown routes on Wednesday, officials said.There were 23,992 new confirmed cases reported to the quarantine authorities in the past two weeks. About 36.7 percent of the total, or 8,815, are cases with unknown infection routes. The percentage
Samsung Medical Center said Wednesday that it has succeeded subretinal injection of gene therapy Luxturna (ingredient: voretigene neparvovec) in a patient with inherited retinal degeneration for the first time in Korea.Luxturna received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in 2017 as
JW Bioscience’s technology using tryptophanyl tRNA synthetase (WRS) as a biomarker for early diagnosis of sepsis, or blood poisoning, has been registered as a source technology from the European Patent Office.The company has secured an advantageous position in the global in-vitro diagnostic market w
Medytox said Wednesday that AbbVie has returned the rights concerning MT10109L, a botulinum toxin candidate, to the Korean company.Medytox licensed out the candidate to Allergan, which is now part of AbbVie, in 2013 and granted the exclusive right to develop and commercialize MT10109L in countries a
Genome & Company, an immunotherapy developer, has taken the first to jump into the CDMO industry by acquiring a U.S. microbiome company, List Biological Laboratory (List Labs).At an online news conference on Wednesday, the company presented its mid-to-long-term vision of becoming a fully integrated
As the U.S. plans to expand the global Covid-19 vaccine supply chain, Korean contract development and manufacturing organizations (CDMOs) should grab an opportunity to attract U.S. investment, a local biotech industry group said.Quoting White House Covid-19 advisor Jeff Zients, Korea Biotech Industr
The Ministry of Food and Drug Safety confirmed that the risk of harm to the human body of N-nitroso-varenicline (NNV) among medicines containing varenicline, a smoking cessation treatment aid, was very low.Varenicline is the main ingredient in Pfizer's anti-nicotine therapy Champix. Thirty-four Kore
inno.N said that it would collaborate with Novacell technology to develop a peptide-based autoimmune disease treatment.Under the accord, Novacell will discover candidate substances for anti-inflammatory peptides, and inno.N plans to conduct additional research and clinical trials on the substance wi
The Korean Medical Association (KMA) said the health authorities should restrict the general public's use of Covid-19 home test kits.The doctors' group said that reckless use of self-test kits partially contributed to the continuing spike in Covid-19 cases despite the strictest Level 4 social distan