The Institute for Basic Science (IBS) said its research team developed an ultrathin, flexible endoscope that is thinner than a needle.The research team, led by Choi Won-shik at the Center for Molecular Spectroscopy and Dynamics at IBS and Professor Choi Young-woon of bioengineering at Korea Universi
The increasingly and rapidly sophisticated information and communication technology (ICT) is changing the appearance of hospitals.Thanks to ICT-based cutting-edge technologies prioritizing a patient-centered service mindset, visitors experience “digital innovation” from the moment they enter hospita
Eyegene Inc., which is developing messenger-RNA Covid-19 vaccine, said it would conduct clinical trials in the South African Republic, following Korea and Australia.In a public notice on Thursday, the company said it had won approval from SAHPRA, the South African Republic's health industry regulato
A joint research team, consisting of researchers from Korea, Netherlands, France, and Sweden, said Friday that it came up with a new method to treat Huntington's disease (HD).HD is a rare genetic neurodegenerative disease accompanied by loss of coordination between muscles, cognitive decline, and ps
AbClon, a Kosdaq-listed biotech firm, said it registered its technology patent related to chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-T cell therapy in the U.S. and Canada, respectively.In the U.S., AbClon registered the patent on its switchable CAR-T platform technology, applicable in AT501 for ovarian cancer.
Korea saw a sharp rise in the death toll on Thursday, despite the continued decrease in daily Covid-19 cases.On Thursday, Korea added 81,573 new Covid-19 infections, including 300 from overseas, bringing the total caseload to 23,327,897, the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) said.Th
Professor Kim Han-seok, director of the Seoul National University Children’s Hospital, has been selected as the next chairman of the Federation of the Asian and Oceanian Physiological Societies (FAOPS).It is the first time a Korean has taken up FAOPS chairmanship.FAPOS was established in 1978 to pro
EOFlow, a wearable drug delivery solutions provider, said Wednesday it received marketing approval for EOPatch, its wearable insulin pump, from the United Arab Emirate (UAE) Ministry of Health and Prevention (MOHAP).The company also obtained the nod for ADM, EOPatch’s controller, and Narsha, its sma
Janssen Korea said its ulcerative colitis Stelara (ustekinumab) won health insurance benefits as the primary treatment for ulcerative colitis in adults in Korea as of Thursday.The reimbursement for Stelara will be recognized for moderate-to-severe ulcerative colitis adult patients who do not respond
Five years have passed since Korea introduced the life-prolonging treatment decision system, but it still has too many shortcomings, including the timing to decide its discontinuance, establishing medical institutions’ ethics committees, and educating medical workers.Experts pointed out these and ot
SCM Lifescience has failed to prove the efficacy of its acute pancreatic treatment candidate in the domestic phase 1/2a clinical trial. Moreover, the company revised the disclosure of clinical results on the same day, causing stirs, according to industry sources. In a public notice on Wednesday, SCM
Gangnam Severance Hospital researchers have greatly improved analyzing nystagmus, a rare eye disease in infants, by applying artificial intelligence (AI) deep learning to the next generation sequencing (NGS) technique.Nystagmus is a condition where the eyes shake involuntarily. It can appear in babi
Amgen said Repatha (evolocumab) reduced the low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol to desirable target levels in 80 percent of patients with atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) in a long-term trial.The U.S. biotech firm disclosed the results of the phase 3 FOURIER open-label extension
A joint Korean and Chinese research team proved that fractional flow reserve (FFR) or intravascular ultrasonography (IVUS) are useful in guiding percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) surgery in patients with moderate stenosis. FFR measures coronary pressure, and IVUS is an intravascular imaging t
Bayer has revealed new data from FIDELITY, a pooled analysis from the phase 3 trials FIDELIO-DKD and FIGARO-DKD of Kerendia (Ingredient: finerenone), showing the drug's potential to have positive effects on mortality in patients with chronic kidney disease and type 2 diabetes (T2D).The FIDELITY tria
The government will lift its pre-travel Covid-19 test requirement for inbound travelers from Saturday, believing the ongoing resurge has passed its peak.Korea had required inbound travelers to submit a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test within 48 hours or a negative rapid antigen test (RAT) confir
Researchers from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) and Seoul National University Bundang Hospital (SNUBH) said on Wednesday that they discovered a biomarker for osteoarthritis called mitochondrial double-stranded RNA (mt-dsRNA).Osteoarthritis occurs when the joint cartilage
GC and its U.S. partner Speragen participated as co-sponsors in the externally-led patient-focused drug development (EL-PFDD) conference, attended by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).The EL-PFDD meeting is one of the major processes in developing treatments for rare diseases, an occasion
Emergency rooms (ERs) in Korean hospitals are already busy taking care of Covid-19 patients, fever patients, and general patients requiring urgent care, but they now have to provide care for drunkards.Local governments are increasingly installing “a drunkard emergency medical center,” which protects
Obese people paradoxically showed decreased mortality after cancer surgery, a Korean study said.The paradox of obesity – that obese patients have a better prognosis after surgery for coronary artery disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and chronic renal failure than those with normal weig