Korean leukemia patients have urged the government to provide rapid reimbursement of Kymriah, the first CAR-T (chimeric antigen receptor-T) treatment for end-stage leukemia-lymphoma developed by Novartis.In a statement issued last Friday, the Korea Leukemia Patients Organization reiterated its reque
Hyundai Pharm recently applied for marketing approval for Mifegymiso, an abortion pill, but the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety (MFDS) remained passive to accelerate the review process.Industry watchers are questioning why the regulator has reversed its stance after promising accelerated approval f
The government announced that it would place the greater Seoul area under the toughest social distancing rules of Level 4 to contain the record-high level of Covid-19 infections.The Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) confirmed 1,316 new virus cases, including 1,236 local infections,
Korea reported the largest number of Covid-19 cases on Thursday since the pandemic hit the nation early last year due to a surge of infections in the Seoul metro region.The Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) confirmed 1,275 new Covid-19 cases, including 1,227 local infections, to rai
Korea reported more than 1,200 new virus cases on Wednesday, marking the highest daily tally in more than six months and raising concerns about the advent of the fourth pandemic wave.The Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) confirmed 1,212 new Covid-19 cases, including 1,168 local infe
Korea will introduce 700,000 doses of the Covid-19 vaccine made by Pfizer Inc. under a swap deal with Israel.According to their agreement, the Pfizer vaccine will arrive here Wednesday morning, and Korea will gradually give back the same amount of vaccine to Israel between September and November."Th
The National Cancer Center hosted the first Cancer Science Forum in 2021 and shared know-how and the latest experiences with experts last Friday.Various health providers, experts on new drug development, and medical science researchers attended the meeting and discussed new small-molecule drug devel
Korea has confirmed 416 Delta variants of the Covid-19 virus so far, with more than half of them coming from abroad, health officials said Monday.The Delta variant is a Covid-19 mutation type in which the Alpha variant and the epsilon-type variant appear together. According to quarantine officials,
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