SEOUL, Nov. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — The cigarette price hike in 2015 has been effective in discouraging smoking in low income earners and youths, but not for people with high earnings, a survey said Tuesday. A public health and nutrition study by the Ministry of Health and Welfare said the smoking rate among the low-income [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – The smoking rate in South Korea rebounded last year, data showed Monday, despite the government’s effort to lower the rate with a hike in cigarette prices starting 2015. According to the data compiled by the Ministry of Health and Welfare, 23.9 percent of South Koreans aged 19 and above [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 3 (Korea Bizwire) – Breastfeeding for just two months lowers the risk of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) by half, a conclusion derived from an analysis of previously published research by a team at the University of Virginia. In total, eight studies with samples of 2,259 infant victims of SIDS and 6,894 healthy babies [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 2 (Korea Bizwire) – Insurance plans that give incentives to clients when they improve their health by walking or getting medical checkups are set to be introduced in South Korea as soon as later this year. According to the Financial Services Commission and the Financial Supervisory Service on Wednesday, guidelines have been established [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 31 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean pharmaceutical firms Medytox and Daewoong Pharmaceuticals are heading to court to settle a dispute surrounding the use of botulinum toxin, a highly poisonous substance used to make Botox, with the South Korean media branding the legal battle as the ‘Botox War’. According to Medytox on Monday, the pharmaceutical [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 30 (Korea Bizwire) – A new survey has found that 8 in 10 South Korean patients hold negative views towards relying on medical care for the purpose of life extension, including chemotherapy, kidney dialysis, and the use of a respirator, as the government moves to introduce a so-called ‘well-dying’ hospice law. The survey, which [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean pharmaceutical firm Samsung Bioepis Co. saw its sales of biosimilar products released in Europe hit US$257 million through the third quarter of this year, data showed Wednesday. Samsung Bioepis said the sales of Benepali released in Europe came to $253 million over the January-September period, compared with [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Incheon International Airport, west of Seoul, is taking flak from local medical bodies for its plan to establish a cosmetic and plastic surgery clinic at the transfer desk of its second passenger terminal to be opened in next January, a lawmaker said Tuesday. Rep. Kang Hoon-sik of the ruling [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 23 (Korea Bizwire) – The Ministry of Health and Welfare has announced it is temporarily allowing deathbed patients to choose whether to continue medical care for life prolongation or not this year, in preparation for the new so-called ‘well-dying’ hospice law entering effect next year. The decision by the health ministry means that from [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will expand investment in the development of personalized medicine using big data to help foster startup companies in the biotechnology industry, the commerce ministry said Monday. Personalized medicine offers particular treatment to individuals, which requires the establishment of a national database on genetics and other health-related information. [...]