A government official said Korea’s first homegrown digital therapeutic would get marketing approval within this year.Kang Young-kyu, director of the Digital Health Devices Division at the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety (MFDS), said 10 digital therapeutics (DTx) were in clinical trials. At least on
The conflict between President Moon Jae-in and President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol continues 12 days before the new government's inauguration.The problem is that it is not only political conflicts between the two administrations but also the ongoing proxy war regarding the current quarantine policies.Yoon
A survey showed that both the general public and experts agreed on the need to establish a special government agency to enhance research and development (R & R&D) in the health sector.The Korea Health Industry Development Institute (KHIDI) on Tuesday released the results of a survey on whether Korea
Korea is regarded as one of the most “hip” countries. The popularity of K-pop, K-drama, K-movie, K-food, and even K-beauty is growing worldwide.This is more surprising because the nation was in a war 70 years ago and one of the poorest countries 60 years ago.The term “Miracle on the Han River,” refe
President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol's transition committee said Wednesday that the new government would determine whether to remove the outdoor mask mandate toward the end of May.The transition team also said it plans to secure hospital beds and manpower to prepare for a possible resurge of Covid-19, prep
As the Omicron wave has notably slowed down, the quarantine authorities have downgraded the national Covid-19 risk from high to medium level for the first time in 14 weeks.The assessment divides the risk of Covid-19 infection into five levels -- very low, low, medium, high, and very high – by evalua
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the ongoing war are likely to hurt the Korean health industry, a report said. Economic sanctions against Russia will hit many small medical device manufacturers, and the government needs to support them.On Wednesday, the Korea Health Industry Development Institute (K
The government on Monday lowered the rating of the Covid-19 pandemic, which has infected about 17 million and killed 22,243 Koreans, from the first to the second grade in its four-tier infectious disease control system.The Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) stressed maintaining the c
The Ministry of Health and Welfare’s Health Insurance Policy Review Committee is scheduled to hold a meeting on Friday this week to determine whether to suspend reimbursement for medicines prescribed by doctors who received bribes from pharmaceutical companies.The upcoming decision is expected to af
Koreans can cheer loudly at baseball parks and soccer stadiums this weekend for the first time in more than two years.According to the Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) secretariat, it has decided to allow spectators to yell and cheer at ballparks “if they wear face masks” from Friday.“We decided so
Korea’s health insurance system for foreign residents undermines the acceptability of expat subscribers and deepens discrimination against them, a researcher said.“There have been frequent news reports about some foreign subscribers exploiting the nation’s health insurance system inappropriately,” t
One of Korea's widespread – but buried underneath and unknown to the public – issues is medical university professors’ children transferred to their parents’ schools by receiving preferential treatment.The practice may not be illegal, but apparently irregular and definitely unfair.The latest case in
Korea reported fewer than 100,000 new Covid-19 cases Thursday, according to health authorities.It was the first time in 63 days that the daily tally stayed in the 90,000 range on Thursday. The daily average of confirmed cases also fell below 100,000 in the past week for the first time in two months.
A local health expert predicted that Korea might experience “a midsize resurgence” of Covid-19 in the latter half."Korea may see a medium-scale epidemic in the second half of this year," Professor Cheong Jae-hoon of the Department of Preventive Medicine at Gachon University College of Medicine said
Upon opening the National Assembly’s extraordinary session this month, a war of nerves intensifies between nurses and other medical professionals, including doctors, over whether the nation should have a separate law for nurses.Recently, even international organizations representing the two conflict
The Ministry of Food and Drug Safety (MFDS) should have more budget, increase drug review fees, and nurture the regulatory science industry to address the chronic problem of shortage of drug review personnel, experts said.Korea Biomedical Review has learned that the MFDS had 305 medical and pharmace
Following the confirmation of the first case of XL, a recombinant of the Omicron Covid-19 strain, in Korea, health authorities have detected the XE and XM mutations for the first time.A recombinant variant occurs when two or more variants simultaneously infect an individual.The Central Disaster and
The transition team of President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol visited Doctor Now, a company that provides non-face-to-face treatment and drug delivery services, on Monday and called for the health and welfare ministry to relax related regulations.Industry watchers pay keen attention to whether the non-contac
As the peak of the Omicron wave is over, the number of new Covid-19 cases dropped below 50,000 on Monday, hitting the lowest level in more than two months.The Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) confirmed 47,743 new virus cases on Monday, raising the cumulative caseload to 16,353,495.
For Korea to hand over the experiences and know-how of the “K-quarantine” to lower-income countries, it should first localize them to suit the situation of receiving countries, according to experts.For instance, the experts proposed that nation tries to localize its experiences of quickly training t