A researcher at Ajou University Hospital has identified that patients with alopecia areata, also known as circular hair loss, have worse symptoms if the patient is aged 15 or younger or the bold spot covers more than half of the scalp.Alopecia areata is an autoimmune disorder in which cytotoxic T-ce
Health experts highlighted Korea’s conservative view towards telemedicine, stressing the need to conduct further pilot projects to move the telemedicine industry forward.The Korean Telemedicine Industry Council (KTIC) held a symposium inviting foreign and local medical industry experts to comment on
In a step toward restructuring the overconcentration of hospital beds in Seoul and neighboring cities, the government has announced a plan to restrain the growth of bed supply in regions where there is already an excessive number of beds compared to the local population and demand.Starting next year
Korea Biomedical Review is publishing a series of articles to analyze the top 10 Korean pharmaceutical and biopharma companies with the largest market capitalizations listed on the main bourse, Kospi, and the tech-heavy Kosdaq. The series aims to reflect key industrial issues and the flow of the cap
Daewon Pharmaceutical has taken the first step toward conducting clinical trials to develop a semaglutide-based obesity treatment as a patch.Daewon Pharm and Raphas said Tuesday they had completed the investigational new drug application for a phase 1 clinical trial of DW-1022, a microneedle patch o
Waldenstrom Macroglobulinemia (WM) is a very rare blood cancer. The disease’s name is from Swedish physician Jan Waldenstrom, who first reported three cases of WM in 1944 and characterized the disease by an overproduction of the immunoglobulin IgM (Immunoglobulin M), a large or macro immunoglobulin.
A research team at Seoul National University Bundang Hospital (SNUBH) has discovered that exercise therapy using digital devices increases antiviral antibody production after influenza vaccination.Digital therapy uses software medical devices to prevent and manage diseases and medical disorders and
Many Korean diagnostic companies participated in the "2023 American Association for Clinical Chemistry (AACC) Expo" held in Anaheim, Calif., from July 25 to 27 (local time) to showcase their new products and technologies.AACC, which marked its 74th year, is the world's largest conference and exposit
Genome&Company, a Korean microbiome therapeutics company, said on Tuesday that it signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with HEM Pharma, another Korean firm specializing in microbiome therapeutics, to jointly advance microbiome drug development.As both companies are developing new drugs based o
Vatech, a Korean company specializing in dental diagnostics, said that its U.S. offshoot has partnered with Henry Schein, a global medical device distributor, to accelerate the expansion of its dental imaging devices into the U.S. market.Henry Schein is the world's top medical device distributor, ge
With studies indicating that the consumption of red meat, such as pork and beef, elevates the likelihood of developing colon, breast, and other cancers, certain individuals diagnosed with cancer believe it's necessary to discontinue their intake of red meat—and indeed, they do. However, the efficacy
Kakao Healthcare, a subsidiary of Korea’s internet conglomerate Kakao, said on Tuesday that it signed a business agreement with Novo Nordisk, a Danish multinational healthcare firm, to provide smart healthcare services for Korean patients with diabetes.Under the agreement, the two companies will lin
Japan's Daiichi Sankyo, a fast-growing player in the HER2 breast cancer space with its antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) Enhertu, is yet again receiving attention after succeeding in developing a Covid-19 mRNA vaccine.According to Daiichi Sankyo, the Japanese drug ministry approved Daichirona, its Covid
The Catholic University of Korea Eunpyeong St. Mary's Hospital said it successfully performed the first robotic kidney transplantation from a brain-dead donor for the first time in Korea.In July, the renal pancreas transplantation team at the Stephen Cardinal Kim Institute of Eunpyeong St. Mary's Ho
If you have 2.5-centimeter cancer in your right kidney, the mere existence of the "cancer" would scare you and keep you awake at night.From the viewpoint of modern medicine, however, you don’t have to worry much about cancer with a size of four centimeters or less that exists only in the kidney."If
Boryung, formerly Boryung Pharmaceutical, said Monday that its new anticancer drug, BR101801, has been designated as a developmental orphan drug by the Korean Ministry of Food and Drug Safety.The designation was made to address the unmet medical needs of peripheral T-cell lymphoma (PTCL), a rare can
The Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) announced on Sunday that it will postpone lowering the infectious disease status of Covid-19 from Level 2 to Level 4.If the pandemic is downgraded, mask mandates will be lifted from vulnerable facilities, case counting will be suspended, and the
Both assailants involved in the recent knife attack at Seohyeon Station in Bundang, Gyeonggi Province, last Thursday, and at a high school in Daejeon on Saturday, had a history of mental illness but refused treatment, local news reports said.Some local psychiatrists said the nation’s Mental Health A
Ahn-gook Pharmaceutical has received a corrective order and a fine of 500 million won ($384,600) from the Korea Fair Trade Commission (FTC) for its kickback scheme.The commission said Monday that it imposed a corrective order and a fine of 500 million won on Ahn-gook Pharm for providing cash and goo
"This month alone, I took on 70 million won ($53,800) in new debt. I've been doing this for three years. I can't hold on any longer. I feel like dying. Why did I jump into the nursing hospital business?"A nursing hospital operator, saying he had survived for three years even after being hit by the C