The Ministry of Health and Welfare (MOHW보건복지부) has dispatched a digital healthcare team to Expo Hospital 2017 in Santiago, Chile, to develop markets for Korea's medical devices and healthcare platforms, officials said Monday.Thirty-four people, representing medical institutions, medical devices, and information technology companies such as Bioneer, Trismed, and 3D Medivision, participated in t
Ewha Womans University Mokdong Hospital이화여자대학교 목동병원 has recently conducted its 53rd liver transplant surgery, the hospital said Monday.Although the hospital started transplant operations relatively late, it had performed 53 liver transplants as of Aug. 31 -- 29 cases of deceased donor liver transplants and 24 cases of living donor liver transplants -- and five cases of liver transplants with u
The Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA), a government-funded agency, announced Thursday it will build four public health centers in the Jordan regions of Amman, Tabarbour, and South Al-Twal to better provide health care there.According to the KOICA, the demand for health care in Jordan is rising with the population growth, as well as with the 1.4 million refugees from Syria. But
Yonsei Cancer Center said Thursday it has been appointed as Novartis’ “Asia-Pacific Regional Research Hub Center” to participate in the multinational pharmaceutical firm’s pre-clinical studies to treat lung cancer. The center will consist of Professor Cho Byung Chul조병철, Professor Kim Hye-ryun김혜련, and Professor Hong Min-hee홍민히 of the Department of Internal Medicine at Yonsei Cancer Center and D
Seoul National University Hospital (SNUH) said it will provide faster emergency care by having professors and other specialists directly seeing patients in the emergency room from September.Previously, patients who visited the emergency room were first examined by interns or residents, who then have to consult the specialist. After consulting with other doctors relevant to the patient’s case,
Huons said Thursday it has agreed with major companies from Europe, Russia and Brazil to supply 100 billion won worth of its botulinum toxin product Hutox, an anti-wrinkle treatment.After getting the export approval for Hutox in October 2016, Huons휴온스 has been actively exporting its product to other countries, including the preparation to enter the U.S. and Europe market from the second half o
A research team, including Dr. Suh Min-ah of Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) Sensor System Research Center, has developed a molecular detection platform to accurately detect various kinds of biomolecules including Avian Influenza viruses.In recent years, the bird flu caused great damage all around the world including Korea, bringing urgent need for early diagnosis.The team
Korean men and women had different reasons for attempting a suicide, a study by a Yonsei University research team revealed on Thursday.Men have been or are currently suffering from cancer are more at risk of suicide, while women with high levels of stress, according to the study.The common risk factors among both men and women for attempting a suicide included low-level educational backgro
The Asan Medical Center's (AMC) Radiation Surgery Center performed knife-free radiosurgery for 10,000 patients with brain tumor, cerebrovascular malformation, and brain disease, the hospital said Wednesday. It is the first hospital in Korea that saw the number exceeding 10,000-mark in radiosurgery for brain tumor patients. Gamma Knife and Cyber Knife radiosurgery were used in the center to tre
Cho-A Pharmaceutical's children's multi-vitamin drink Jalkton won the gold prize at the Golden Awards ceremony hosted by the Vietnamese Association of Functional Foods (VAFF), the company said Wednesday.The VAFF Golden Awards is the 4th annual award ceremony for the selection of innovative brands in the health functional food sector in Vietnam.Out of the companies selected this year, Cho-A
The Ministry of Food and Drug Safety announced Tuesday that it will enhance safety standards for the use of liquid nitrogen by revising “Standards and Specifications for Food Additives.”The latest move came after a recent incident involving a 12-year-old boy consuming liquid nitrogen from nitrogen-injected crackers called “yonggari snack.” New standards will be added to prevent liquid nitr
Korean biopharmaceutical firm GemVax & Kael said it has started to recruit patients for phase 2 clinical trial of “GV1001” to treat Alzheimer’s disease, the company said Monday.The clinical trial will apply a cloud-based integrated data platform from Medidata Solutions for the first time, it said. The solutions used for the platform will comprehensively collect, maintain and report clinical t
CMG Pharmaceuticals, an affiliate company of CHA Health Systems that specializes in orally disintegrating films (ODF) in Korea, said Monday it has concluded a deal to export Tadalafil ODFs to Kyura Healthcare, a Filipino pharmaceutical company.Under the contract, Tadalafil ODFs worth $2 million will be sold in the Philippines’ erectile dysfunction market over the next five years, after the loc
SK Chemicals said Monday it has started supplying the world's first quadrivalent cell culture-based flu vaccine “SKY CellFlu Quadrivalent” for the local market.SKY CellFlu is the first cell culture vaccine that covers two influenzas A strains (H1N1, H3N2) and two influenza B strains (Yamagata, Victoria), manufactured using aseptic culture medium instead of eggs employed in the traditional meth
The Ministry of Health and Welfare and the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention질병관리본부 will conduct a joint evaluation with the World Health Organization (WHO) to check Korea’s health security for a week starting Monday.The WHO Joint External Assessment (JEE) is an evaluation method that suggests recommendations to improve the national action plan of the inspecting country by object
A Korean research team has developed a microdroplet device based on surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy capable of detecting Yersinia pestis, a bacterium transmitted from rodents to humans by the bite of infected fleas.The microdroplet device can generate extremely tiny droplets in microchannels, and automatically analyze various material responses, and surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy is a
The Dong-A Socio Group said it would step up efforts to penetrate the Vietnamese pharmaceutical market starting with the supply of contraceptives.Dong-A Socio Holdings동아쏘시오홀딩스, Dong-A Pharma동아제약 and Vietnam's General Office for Population and Family Planning (GOPFP) signed a memorandum of understanding Wednesday to provide oral contraceptives to the Southeast Asian country, at their headquarte
Samyang Biopharmaceuticals has developed Lenalidomide, a therapeutic agent for multiple myeloma, company officials said Friday.Lenalidomide tablets are mainly for elderly patients by solving the discomfort of the capsules which stick to the esophageal mucosa in the mouth.Samyang’s Lenalidomide is a generic of Celgene Korea세엘진코리아 Revlimid capsules with its volume one-third (based on 25mg) o
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Thursday approved Besponsa (compound: inotuzumab ozogamicin) for the treatment of adults with relapsed or refractory B-cell precursor acute lymphoblastic leukemia.B-cell precursor acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is a form of leukemia, in which too many B-cell lymphoblasts (immature white blood cells) are found in the blood and bone marrow. It is t
ToolGen툴젠, a local genome engineering company, has signed a global license agreement with Monsanto, a global seed company, for the patent application of the new genome-editing tool called Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR).CRISPR is widely used in life sciences because it acts like a pair of molecular scissors capable of cutting strands of DNA and selectively co