As controlling the hyper transmissible Delta variant has become vital to end the Covid-19 pandemic, health authorities worldwide are scrambling to secure antibody treatments against the virus variant.REGEN-COV (casirivimab/imdevimab), jointly developed by Roche and Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, became
Korea's daily Covid-19 cases soared to a nearly six-month high Friday, as infections in the Seoul metro region continued to spike amid growing concerns about the Delta variant’s spread.“The greater Seoul area faces a serious situation,” Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency Commissioner Jeong
Koreans are good at conducting research but do not seem to know well how to develop drugs using such research results, an expert pointed out Thursday. Suhr Sung-ae, CEO of Global Bio-Connection SSP, a firm providing consulting services for drug development based in California, also said Korea should
Korea's new Covid-19 cases stayed in the 700s for the second day Thursday as the Seoul metro region faced a resurge of infections, forcing authorities to push back eased virus restrictions.The country reported 762 more new virus cases, including 712 local infections, raising the total caseload to 15
Korea National Institute of Health (NIH), a research unit under the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KCDA), started visiting local companies to verify their mRNA vaccine technology.The NIH said on Thursday that it picked Hanmi Fine Chemical, a subsidiary of Hanmi Pharmaceutical Group, as
State-run cancer centers (NCC) of Korea, Japan, and China held an online meeting to share long-term plans for fighting against cancers and promised to strengthen their teamwork to contribute to global cancer control.At the virtual meeting on Wednesday, the presidents of the three nations’ cancer cen
Korea's daily Covid-19 tally soared to the highest level in more than two months Wednesday, as unrelenting cluster infections gripped the Seoul metro region amid growing jitters over the spread of variant cases.The country reported 794 more new virus cases, including 759 local infections, raising th
The Ministry of Food and Drug Safety said Tuesday that it has ferreted out 44 clinics that misused or abused medical opioids, including fentanyl patches.The 44 medical institutions and their doctors either illegally prescribed fentanyl patches to those in their 10s and 20s or wrongfully used them fo
The government may have to maintain the strict mask rule even on those who received their first shots of Covid-19 vaccines if the country sees a rise in variant cases, Prime Minister Kim Boo-kyum said.The government had previously announced that it would allow people administered with their first va
The U.S. government’s massive support for Covid-19 vaccine development helped the country overcome the pandemic crisis. With the growing importance of vaccines in a public health crisis, Korea should secure mRNA vaccine technology as soon as possible, a report said.The Korea Health Industry Developm
Four variants of the novel coronavirus, including the highly contagious Delta variant, have risen sharply in recent days, embarrassing quarantine officials preparing to ease social distancing measure from July 1.According to the Central Disaster and Safety Countermeasures Headquarters on Monday, the
Starting from July, the government will allow those who have received Covid-19 vaccinations approved by the World Health Organization (WHO) to enter the country without undergoing a two-week quarantine process.The WHO has approved vaccines developed by Pfizer, Janssen Moderna, AstraZeneca, Covidshie
The government said that it is preparing various support measures so that local companies developing Covid-19 vaccines can enter phase 3 clinical trial in the second half of this year.Currently, five Korean companies have completed phase 1 clinical trials. SK Bioscience and Eubiologics are developin
The global spread of the Covid-19 Delta variant put additional strains on the quarantine authorities Thursday, although officials remained cautious, saying it is in the early phase of inflow.Delta has 1.6 times higher transmission power than the Alpha variant and could emerge as a dominant virus in
Korea’s digital health industry lags far behind those of advanced countries, and, unless the domestic laws and systems are changed, its future course will deviate from the global trend, a state-run agency said Wednesday.Assuming the U.S. industry’s competitiveness is 100, Korea scores only 77 points
Mortality of preventable cancers has significantly declined in Korea in the past 10 years, a report showed.The National Cancer Center (NCC) released the 2021 Cancer Trends Report on Wednesday.According to the report, mortality of preventable cancers went down from 66.6 per 100,000 population in 1997
Korea's daily Covid-19 tally spiked to a two-week high on Wednesday, reversing the gradual declining trend of the past few days as virus variants emerged as a new challenge in the country's fight against the pandemic.However, health authorities remained cautious, saying it could be a temporary surge
Acknowledging that Covid-19 variants pose a significant threat to the country’s quarantine efforts, a top health official said the government would do everything in its power to contain their spread."Variant viruses are a major threat to our quarantine effort," Minister of Health and Welfare Kwon De
The Korean Society for Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery (KTCVS) urged the government to improve access to treatment materials for thoracic surgery and modify standards for providing health insurance coverage on Monday."Professionals conducting thoracic and cardiovascular surgeries have been despe
The government has officially acknowledged the first case of causality between receiving AstraZeneca's Covid-19 vaccine and the death of a male in his 30s who died of thrombocytopenic thrombosis.It was the first recognition of a causative relationship between vaccination and death after the governme