SEOUL, July 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Some 14,000 people were estimated to have died from a deadly humidifier sanitizer scandal that broke out in 2011, a figure that is roughly 10 times bigger than previously reported, a study showed Monday. The number of adults who died after being diagnosed as patients of relevant diseases, such [...]
SEOUL, July 27 (Korea Bizwire) –The vaccination rates among children for diseases like measles and polio in South Korea is higher than those of developed countries such as the U.S., U.K. and Australia with 97 percent of South Korean kids being vaccinated against these diseases in recent years, according to an analysis of related data, [...]
SEOUL, July 24 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea has granted marketing authorization to use remdesivir for coronavirus treatment, the country’s drug safety agency said Friday. The drug that is sold as Veklury and made by U.S. pharmaceutical giant Gilead Sciences Inc. contains the antiviral substance that has been shown to help COVID-19 patients, the Ministry [...]
SEOUL, July 24 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean researchers have developed an equation to assess the risk of dementia for individuals with Parkinson’s disease, a university said Thursday. A research team led by Lee Phil-hyu and Chung Seok-jong, professors of neurology at Yonsei University College of Medicine, had developed a model and an equation tool [...]
SEOUL, July 21 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s SK Bioscience inked a deal with global pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca to supply a candidate material for a coronavirus vaccine, the local biotech company said Tuesday. The letter of intent (LOI) reached between the two companies and the Ministry of Health and Welfare calls for close cooperation on [...]
SEOUL, July 21 (Korea Bizwire) — An experiment has showed that the installation of transparent partitions is effective in preventing the spread of infectious diseases. The state-run Korea Institute of Energy Technology Evaluation and Planning (KETEP) revealed on Monday that it carried out an in-house experiment that confirmed that a transparent partition with a height [...]
SEOUL, July 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Celltrion, a leading pharmaceutical firm in South Korea, said Monday that it is preparing to start commercial production of its antibody treatment for the new coronavirus as early as September. Celltrion plans to begin the production of its antiviral antibody treatment for the COVID-19 virus at its plant in [...]
SEOUL, July 20 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean pharmaceutical companies will start selling generic versions of the smoking cessation drug Champix, following the expiration of its patent here, industry sources said Monday. The drug by U.S. pharmaceutical giant Pfizer, also referred to as varenicline tartrate, helps people to stop smoking by relieving cravings for nicotine [...]
SEOUL, July 20 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infections among adolescents in South Korea has been rising in recent years, a report said Monday, stressing the need for state efforts to stem the trend. South Korea reported 469 new HIV patients in their 10s and 20s in 2019, up sharply [...]
SEOUL, July 17 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea approved phase one clinical trials for Celltrion Inc.’s coronavirus antibody treatment substance, the country’s drug safety agency said Friday. The move to test CT-P59 marks the first time that a locally made genetic recombination antibody treatment material has been given the green light to be used on [...]