SEOUL, May 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Last year, one out of every three Koreans was prescribed pharmaceutical drugs, the country’s drug safety watchdog said Thursady. The Ministry of Food and Drug Safety revealed that it had confirmed this data by analyzing the status of pharmaceutical drug use reported to the integrated drug management system for [...]
DAEJEON, May 28 (Korea Bizwire) — A research team has developed a technology that can effectively treat arteriosclerosis, the hardening of the arteries, using a medicine the size of nanometer, one thousand-millionth of a meter. The Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology said Wednesday that it has developed a nano drug transfer technology that [...]
SEOUL, May 27 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea shared its experience and quarantine process in tackling the novel coronavirus pandemic with Latin American countries through an online seminar Wednesday. The Special Webinar on COVID-19 for Policy and Technology event, hosted by the International Quarantine Cooperation task force, comes as many countries in Central and South [...]
SEOUL, May 27 (Korea Bizwire) — K-quarantine, referring to the South Korean system of fighting the coronavirus, is leading the war against the pandemic across Southeast Asia, raising the prospects for another surge of the ‘Korean Wave’ amid the coronavirus crisis. The Strait Times, an English-language newspaper in Singapore, reported Tuesday that KK Women’s & [...]
SEOUL, May 27 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean pharmaceutical companies have joined the global race to develop a vaccine for the novel coronavirus, but none of them have received approval for clinical trials for a vaccine or treatment candidates from the country’s drug safety agency. Celltrion Inc., a major pharmaceutical giant, has announced that it [...]
SEOUL, May 27 (Korea Bizwire) — At a time when the new coronavirus epidemic is dragging on, it has been suggested that surgical masks, sometimes referred to as dental masks, are more suitable for maintaining public health than KF94 and N95 masks. KF stands for “Korea Filter” and the number indicates the percentage of particles [...]
SEOUL, May 26 (Korea Bizewire) — South Korea is pushing to export a coronavirus test kit developed by a military research center that drastically reduces the diagnosis time, the defense ministry said Tuesday. The Armed Forces Medical Research Institute has patented the loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) method used in the test kit that cuts the [...]
SEOUL, May 26 (Korea Bizewire) — South Korea has banned the production and sale of 31 diabetes drugs with a substance that may pose cancer risks, although the drugs do not pose serious health risks, the country’s public health agency said Tuesday. The drugs are metformin-based medication, with 257 other diabetes drugs also being checked for [...]
SEOUL, May 26 (Korea Bizewire) — Diagnostic kits that can deliver a test result for the novel coronavirus within an hour will be available in South Korea as soon as June. Some domestic companies specializing in in-vitro diagnostic medical devices, including Seasun Biomaterials, are reportedly planning to apply to the Korea Centers for Disease Control [...]
SEOUL, May 22 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean molecular diagnostics firm Biocore Co. said Friday it has received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for emergency use of its coronavirus test kit. Biocore said it has become the seventh South Korean COVID-19 test kit manufacturer that has garnered emergency use authorization (EUA) [...]