The ongoing monsoon season will be over soon, and the summer vacation season starts in earnest in mid-July. Most salaried people say they get their annual energy from vacations. Now is the time for them to give a finishing touch to their vacation plans. People need to remain healthy to enjoy their vacations. Especially important in this regard is the health of the waist – often called the pil
Summer is a season for outdoor activity, including various leisure activities. People pay little attention to health issues except for troubles in the digestive system, such as food poisoning, during the season. If you also think so, you may be wrong. In summer you'd better greater attention to health issues besides food poisoning – one of them is dizziness. In summer, many people complai
The human DNA consists of about 3 billion bases – one mutation could cause a rare disease that takes an average of five to 20 years to diagnose. Rare disease affects fewer than 1 in 2,000 people. About 7,000 kinds exist. Korean bioinformatics firm 3billion offers a solution that scans for DNA mutations and help physicians diagnose rare diseases faster and more accurately not just for wealthy c
Minister of Health and Welfare Park Neung-hoo and Laos Minister of Health Bounkong Syhavong discussed plans to expand cooperation in the field of health and welfare between the two countries last week.The discussions came as part of the Lee Jong-wook Fellowship program, established in 2007 by the ministry and Korea Foundation for International Healthcare (KOFIH), aiming to develop the health a
Jang Keun-suk, a Korean actor particularly famous in Japan, will be exempted from regular military service because of his bipolar disorder, and will instead serve as a social worker from mid-July, his agency said.“Jang was categorized as a 4th –degree conscript according to military service law due to ‘manic-depressive illness’ diagnosis at the Military Manpower Administration’s physical e
Competition between two diabetes treatments -- Novo Nordisk’s Tresiba and Sanofi’s Toujeo -- has been heating up with the two firms putting out findings from their trials titled “CONFIRM” and “BRIGHT,” respectively.As a result, Tresiba is likely to continue its reign as the market leader for the time being, a Korean expert said.Novo Nordisk’s Tresiba (insulin degludec) is a once-daily,
Recent research has shown that hair dye allergies are more common in those 50 years or older. Hair dyes are used commonly to color hair with around 63 percent of Koreans saying they have dyed their hair at least once.p-Phenylenediamine (PPD) is a component of hair dyes known to be a significant cause of contact dermatitis. It is added to the dye to create a black color but the higher the conce
Samsung Medical Center and Intel Korea are teaming up to create artificial intelligence (AI)-based medical research infrastructure to develop a cancer diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis prediction model.SMC President Kwon O-jung and Intel Korea President Kwon Myung-sook signed a memorandum of understanding Tuesday at Samsung Medical Center. Through the agreement, the two partie
Exciting new developments powered by technologies of the Fourth Industrial Revolution have the potential to impact the healthcare industry, but ambiguous and undefined regulations are hindering progress, experts said Wednesday.H3 System CEO Kim Min-joon and Insung Information Manager Kwak Bong-jo made these and other points during a panel session at the “2018 Smart Healthcare Seminar to Lead t
Recent research has found Helicobacter pylori infection, a gastrointestinal pathogen known to be associated with cardiovascular disease (CVD) in patients, also raises the risk of cardiovascular disease in healthy adults. Researchers at Gangnam Severance Hospital researched 463 healthy adults to discover whether Helicobacter pylori infection was associated with cardiovascular stenosis and ather
Yonsei University Health System and China’s Hiking Group held a groundbreaking ceremony for the Qingdao-Severance Hospital which will open in 2021, marking the first entry of a Korean of a general hospital to enter China.The 1,000-bed general hospital is located in Qingdao, Shandong Province. The two sides began the construction of the hospital under a joint venture agreement in March 2016 fol
Pharmaceutical firms are increasingly turning to digital channels to carry out marketing and sales activities with data showing expenditure on digital channels growing an average of 20 percent in 35 countries annually, IQVIA said Tuesday.According to the analysis of the sales and marketing expenditures by pharmaceutical firms, overall spending dropped an average of 4 percent annually from $88.
The Ministry of Food and Drug Safety Thursday canceled the approval for MSD Korea’s ovarian stimulation injection Elonva (Corifollitropin Alfa) used to help women undergoing infertility treatment get pregnant.The cancellation applies to both the 100㎍ and 500㎍ doses of the injection.The ministry had confirmed an insufficient number of subjects in the post-marketing surveillance (PMS) da
Siemens Healthineers Korea and a domestic research team from Asan Medical Center have teamed up to develop an innovative cardiac CT imaging technique for children that allows them to breathe naturally during the process.According to Siemens, current cardiac CT imaging techniques such as the retrospective ECG gating technique and the ECG triggering technique have limitations for pediatric patie
A medical group and a government agency are teaming up to tackle the rising number of brain diseases caused by fine dust, such as stroke and dementia, by making the most of forests.The Korean Neurological Association (KNA) and Korea Forest Service (KFS) signed a memorandum of understanding Monday to prevent and treat neurological disorders that arise from air pollution, by creating clean air w
Alexion Pharma Korea gained reimbursement from the Ministry of Health and Welfare for its atypical hemolytic uremic syndrome (aHUS) therapy Soliris (eculizumab) starting this month, the company said Monday.A 30 mL bottle Soliris will cost around 6 million won ($5,371) starting Sunday.Patients over 18 years of age should take 90 mL every week for four weeks, take 120 mL in the fifth wee
Ten generics of Takeda Pharmaceutical’s diabetes adjunct therapy Actos met (ingredient: metformin hydrochloride, pioglitazone hydrochloride) are about to hit the domestic market with the termination of a priority sales right of KyungDong Pharm’s Pictomin generic.KyungDong obtained a priority sales right for Pictomin that lasted nine months from Sept. 7, 2017, to June 30, 2018, after successful
Korea Biomedical Review is running a series on innovative healthcare startups that feature next-generation technology to shake up the industry. -Ed. “If DaVinci stands for surgical robots, Surgical Mind will represent virtual reality-based microsurgery training solutions.”So said Kim Il, founder and CEO of Surgical Mind, a virtual reality (VR)-based medical training device and sof
Sanofi’s diabetes injection Toujeo showed non-inferiority to Novo Nordisk’s Tresiba in a head-to-head trial that looked at how the therapies lower hypoglycemia rate and incidence in patients with type 2 diabetes.Hypoglycemia, more commonly known as low blood sugar, occurs when blood sugar drops to below normal levels resulting in symptoms such as clumsiness, trouble talking, confusion, and los
VUNO has released new study results, which show its artificial intelligence (AI)-based cardiac arrest prediction software, VUNO Med-DEWS, is superior to existing models regarding accuracy and false alarm rate.The clinical trial results titled “An Algorithm Based on Deep Learning for Predicting In‐Hospital Cardiac Arrest” were published in the Journal of American Heart Association Tuesday.T