SEOUL, July 6 (Korea Bizwire) — A series of cluster infections in the Seoul metropolitan area, including the one tied to a nightlife district in downtown Seoul, was seeded most by the so-called GH genetic strain of the new coronavirus, which has been also most detected in other countries, health authorities said Monday. The Korea [...]
SEOUL, July 3 (Korea Bizwire) – Social distancing measures and the temporary closure of research institutes to prevent the spread of the coronavirus are making it difficult for bio-health researchers to carry out their clinical tests. According to industry sources on Thursday, the Korea Health Industry Development Institute conducted a survey of 362 chief researchers [...]
SEOUL, July 2 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean woman in her 50s has received a lung transplant after the novel coronavirus ravaged her respiratory system, doctors said Thursday. Hallym University Sacred Heart Hospital said a donor’s lungs were successfully transplanted to the severely ill COVID-19 patient on June 21. Her identity was withheld. The [...]
SEOUL, July 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Teenagers who stay up late at night are much more likely to suffer from depression compared to early birds, according to a recent study. Night owl refers to those who go to bed late and wake up late, while early birds prefer getting up and going to bed early. [...]
SEOUL, July 1 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea on Wednesday began providing remdesivir, an experimental drug conventionally used for Ebola, as a treatment drug for the novel coronavirus. The Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC) said the medication developed by U.S. pharmaceutical giant Gilead Sciences Inc. will be used for COVID-19 patients with [...]
SEOUL, July 1 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul National University Hospital (SNUH) announced on Tuesday that its community treatment center designed to treat COVID-19 patients with mild symptoms confirmed the potential of ‘untact diagnosis’ through the use of state-of-the-art information technology. The newly-coined term ‘untact’ refers to non-face-to-face contact. SNUH ran a COVID-19 community treatment [...]
SEOUL, June 30 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea has started full-fledged coronavirus antibody tests to determine the true extent of infections in the country, a senior health official said Tuesday. “Serology tests are being conducted on blood samples of 3,055 people to find out how many people have immunity against the novel coronavirus,” Kwon Joon-wook, [...]
SEOUL, June 29 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will start compiling big data from the clinical and genome information of 10,000 people, health authorities said Monday. The two-year national pilot project that will run through 2021 will cover data on people with genetic anomalies and those with rare diseases that are linked to their genome. [...]
SEOUL, June 26 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea has approved 15 candidates for coronavirus treatment drugs and vaccines for clinical trials as it steps up efforts to combat the coronavirus pandemic, the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety said Friday. The candidate materials include two that may be developed into vaccines and 13 that show [...]
SEOUL, June 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Scientists have discovered a protein that induces so-called benign obesity in people, opening new horizons for the treatment of diabetes and metabolic syndrome, a state-run research institute said Wednesday. Benign or metabolically healthy obesity (MHO) refers to a physical condition where a person is overweight but does not suffer [...]