Sales of Korean erectile dysfunction treatments hit all-time high in 2023 for the third consecutive year, with local pharmaceutical companies having around 90 percent of the market share.Leading the charge were Korean generic drugs like Hanmi Pharm's Palpal and Gugu, and Chong Kun Dang's Sendom, sig
In a move reflecting the intricate dance between branding, legal challenges, and market positioning, two Korean biotech companies, LegoChem Biosciences and Helixmith, have announced changes to their corporate identities.LegoChem Biosciences will soon undergo a transformation to LigaChem Biosciences,
Parents in Korea and other Asian countries are unusually concerned about their children's height. That is partly because Asians tend to be shorter than people in the West. Still, this interest in height has given rise to the academic term "heightism" in sociology, referring to social prejudice and d
Samsung Medical Center (SMC) came under fire after requiring an “obedience pledge” from public health doctors who were newly deployed to fill in the void of striking trainee physicians.Recently, SMC issued “service commitment and consent forms” to the newly deployed public health doctors.The consent
If you're in your 20s or 30s and have enlarged myocardium and proteinuria, there's a condition you should be concerned about -- Fabry disease, a rare genetic disorder.In particular, if you have a constitution that seldom sweats and gets hot if you exercise even a little in the sun, or if you have “a
Boryung Pharmaceutical said it has signed a memorandum of understanding with MirimGENE, a drug development company, to jointly develop innovative new drugs.MirimGENE develops new drugs to treat intractable infections and immune diseases by targeting the endogenous innate immune activator WARS1.Based
Sleep is a fundamental human right crucial for overall health and well-being, yet it remains elusive for many.However, experts point out that Korean adolescents, truck drivers, shift workers, and women who are raising children do not get enough sleep and need policy support not only from individuals
Seoul National University Bundang Hospital (SNUBH) said it would receive the Presidential Commendation for Global Healthcare Achievement in the 14th Global Healthcare & Medical Tourism held at COEX, southern Seoul, from Thursday.The hospital said the presidential citation is related to the global he
Korean trainee doctors, including interns and residents, have appealed to the International Labor Organization (ILO) for assistance in addressing the Seoul government's directive to resume operations.In a news release distributed on Wednesday, the Korean Intern Resident Association (KIRA) said it ha
The International Vaccine Institute (IVI) said on Thursday that it has named three vaccine developers as co-recipients of the 2024 IVI-SK bioscience Park MahnHoon Award for developing an oral cholera vaccine, and Covid-19 and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccines, respectively. Jan Holmgren, a
A collaborative research team from Severance Hospital and the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) has uncovered mechanisms that contribute to the early development of resistance to chemotherapy in pancreatic cancer treatment.Despite advances in the survival rates of other intr
Obesity is becoming a serious problem in Korea.A recent statistical report published by the Ministry of Health and Welfare and the Korea Health Promotion Institute on Monday highlighted a worrying obesity trend in the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic, showing a sharp rise in obesity rates across a
The government has begun a full-scale financial injection to fill the vacancies left by interns and residents who resigned en masse to protest against the government’s increase in medical school enrollment quota.Starting in March, for instance, the government will pay a monthly subsidy of 18 million
NGeneBio, a company specializing in next-generation sequencing-based precision diagnostic platforms, said Wednesday that it has signed a business agreement with Genolution, a molecular diagnostics company."We signed this business agreement to provide NGS (next-generation sequencing) testing services
Korean medical professors who have announced their resignations, urging dialogue with the government, have issued a stark warning of an impending healthcare crisis in the country. They highlight that hospitals, which have been reducing their services for nearly a month following the departure of tra
Philips Korea said Wednesday that it would showcase the company’s broad ultrasound portfolio for clinical settings at the 39th Korea International Medical & Hospital Equipment Show (KIMES 2024) at COEX, southern Seoul, from Thursday to Sunday.The medical field strives to realize precision medicine b
Lunit said it has received the first-phase approval from the New Zealand High Court for its acquisition of Volpara Health Technologies.Volpara, established in 2009 in Wellington, New Zealand, specializes in AI-based breast cancer screening solutions. It has supplied its technology to over 2,000 medi
A joint research team of Seoul National University Bundang Hospital (SNUBH) and Sung Kyun Kwan University (SKKU)-Samsung Medical Center (SMC) has released the results of a genetic study on the relationship between creativity and mental disorders.Professor Myung Woo-jae at the Department of Neuropsyc
The Medical Device Industry Promotion Foundation (MEDIF) will hold the “International Joint Cooperation Seminar on Medical Device Technology and Standard Trends in Orthopedics between Korea and Brazil” based on the TC-Linked Cooperation Foundation for Pre-empting International Standards in Medical D
The Korean Society for the Study of Obesity (KSSO) is now busy revising its guidelines ahead of Novo Nordisk's anticipated domestic launch of its obesity treatment Wegovy (semaglutide) late this year.According to a recent seminar of the Guidelines Committee at the KSSO’s 59th spring conference, the