The Ministry of Food and Drug Safety said Wednesday that it would resume the face-to-face field inspections of Korean pharmaceutical companies’ overseas manufacturing plants from April to November.The ministry has suspended its inspections since February 2020 due to the spread of the Covid-19 pandem
SK Bioscience said it submitted a rolling review document for the rapid approval of the GBP510, its Covid-19 vaccine candidate, to U.K.'s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA).The company aims to go through the sequential screening stage and proceed to the final evaluation as qu
As the number of confirmed Covid-19 cases continued to rise, the quarantine authorities said Tuesday that they would provide intensive care for patients aged 60 or more and people with weakened immunity.Under the revised quarantine guideline, Covid-19 patients in their 50s with underlying diseases h
After six years of conducting post-market surveillance (PMS) for Janssen Korea's prostate cancer treatment Zytiga (ingredient: abiraterone acetate), the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety confirmed an adverse event incidence rate of 34.98 percent.The PMS on 626 patients found five cases of serious adv
Russia included some pharmaceutical products and medical devices in the list of its restricted export items announced last Wednesday, making it difficult to import such items, the Ministry of Trade, Industry, and Energy (MOTIE) said.The Russian government has placed 500 items on its export ban and r
The Global Vaccine Hub Promotion Team within the Ministry of Health and Welfare said it has started research to establish a joint vaccine purchase fund to ensure low- and middle-income Asian countries’ access to vaccines.According to the ministry, the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (G
Hutecs Korea and Daewoong Pharmaceutical topped the list of drugmakers with the largest number of clinical trial approvals by the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety this year.On Tuesday, the ministry said that it approved 192 clinical trials this year, including termination reports and excluding contr
The government said it would start providing Covid-19 vaccines to about 3.07 million children aged 5-11 from March 31.The interval between the first and second vaccinations will be eight weeks. Still, authorities said they would shorten the period to three weeks for those requiring urgent vaccinatio
Medipost said that it started administering SMUP-IA-01, an injection type knee osteoarthritis treatment, in a phase 2 trial in Korea.The phase 2 trial follows a previous phase 1 clinical trial of SMUP-IA-01, where the company confirmed the safety and improvement of pain and joint function in 12 pati
A Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) research team has developed a technology that can detect RNA-degrading enzymes using the incidental cleavage activity of the CRISPR-Cas12a system.Ribonuclease H, a kind of RNA degrading enzyme, is an essential region in reverse transcripta
The contract manufacturing organization (CMO) businesses concerning the Covid-19 vaccine undertaken by Korean pharmaceutical companies are showing mixed results.While the subsidiaries of large conglomerates, such as Samsung Biologics and SK Bioscience, are manufacturing Covid-19 vaccines, independen
Maria Trading, a medical aesthetic device distributor in the United Arab Emirates and the Middle East, said it has exhibited its latest energy-based laser devices and best aesthetic products during the 2022 Dubai World Dermatology & Laser Conference & Exhibition (2022 Dubai Derma).The 2022 Dubai Der
Lilly Korea said the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety approved its Retevmo 40mg and 80mg as Korea's first RET (Rearranged during Transfection) inhibitor treatment on Friday.Under the approval, hospitals can use Retevmo in treating adult patients with metastatic RET fusion-positive non-small cell lun
The government will exempt overseas travelers who have completed their Covid-19 vaccinations and registered their vaccination history from the mandatory weeklong self-isolation from March. 21.Until now, the government has put all foreign arrivals in self-isolation for seven days, regardless of their
The medical field is recently accelerating the transition to precision care based on rapidly developing technology.The first step in precision care is to provide an accurate diagnosis and increase convenience for medical staff and patients with cutting-edge technology.While only large general hospit
The Korea International Medical and Hospital Equipment Show (KIMES) is succeeding in redrawing the interests of foreign buyers and participants in the annual exhibition, overcoming the failure of 2021.Last year, the exhibition organizers pushed ahead with KIMES 2021 amid the Covid-19 crisis and a gl
VUNO said it has obtained the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety certification for VUNO Med-LungQuant, an artificial intelligence (AI)-based lung computed tomography (CT) quantification.The solution automatically analyzes lung CT images based on AI to segment characteristic areas in CT images and prov
As the Covid-19 pandemic approaches its peak pushed by the Omicron wave, the government sped up the conversion of its treatment system for confirmed patients on Thursday."Now is the time for the entire medical staff at hospitals to come forward to treat the Omicron patients," Minister of Health and
Amgen Korea, which had conquered Korea's osteoporosis treatment market with Prolia and Evenity, set a new milestone last year by becoming the first company to surpass 100 billion won ($81.3 million) in annual sales.According to IQVIA, a drug market research company, sales of Prolia's (ingredient: de
The 37th Korea International Medical and Hospital Equipment Show (KIMES 2022) opened at the COEX in southern Seoul on Thursday.Co-organized by the Korea Medical Devices Industrial Cooperation Association (KMDICA), Korea Medical Industry Association (KMDIA), and Korea E&EX, the annual event aims to p