SEOUL, Nov.14 (Korea Bizwire) – Korea’s small s medical start-up firm has successfully completed a clinical test for bio-artificial liver transplant. The research firm has been researching in this area for 15 years investing 12 billion won (US$11 million). Based on its successful clinical experiment, the company plans to enter the bio-artificial organ market by [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – Obesity was considered a symbol of wealth for most recorded history. Being fat meant you don’t have to engage in manual labor while being given change to gorge on plentiful food. Today, however, the total opposite is true. The poorer you are, the fatter you are likely to be. [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — A total of 145 doctors and nurses have submitted their applications for an emergency medical team to be dispatched to West Africa to treat Ebola patients. The government has decided it would send the team to Sierra Leone in which the spread of the epidemic is fastest and most virulent. The [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 9 (Korea Bizwire) – SK Chemicals will expand its business for blood preparations by investing 100 billion won. The unit for blood derivatives posted about 60 billion won in sales revenue last year. The company said on November 7, “We plan to increase the plasma fractionation capacity by five times to 600,000 liters from [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 8 (Korea Bizwire) – Dispersed medical records in many medical institutions will be integrated in a personal smartphone in South Korea. The Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) announced on November 6 that it started to develop an ICT Healing Platform Service, which allows a patient to gather scattered medical records from hospitals [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 7 (Korea Bizwire) – A new way to diagnose Alzheimer’s disease with a drop of blood sample was found as Korean scientists proved the correlations of the causative agent of the disease with its concentrations in the blood. The Brain Science Institute of the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) led by senior [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – Daewoong Pharmaceutical announced on November 3 that it recently built a Daewoong Pharmaceutical Liaoning laboratory as part of an effort to establish a global network. The lab is under Liaoning Baifeng, a Shenyang-based drug manufacturer the Korean company acquired in August 2013. The newly-built lab located in the Benxi Economic [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – Yuhan Corporation, the first runner in terms of sales and net profit among Korean drug companies, is expected to reach one trillion won sales this year, for the first time as a pharmaceutical company. In a recent electronic disclosure to the Financial Supervisory Service, Yuhan said that its preliminary [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 4 (Korea Bizwire) – Seoul Asan Medical Center, in partnership with Hyundai Heavy Industries, has succeeded in developing a surgical robot after three years of R&D effort. The pilot version of the robot can get a sample of tissue with a needle from the source of lesion area about 1 centimeter over the abdomen and [...]
![[Infographic] All about bruxism or teeth grinding](http://koreabizwire.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/teeth-grinding-thumbnail.jpg "[Infographic] All about bruxism or teeth grinding")
SEOUL, Nov.3 (Korea Bizwire) – Occasional teeth grinding is not such a serious condition, but frequent bruxism can cause damage to the teeth and jaw pain. A lot of people are unaware of bruxism while sleeping, and often a sleep partner is the first to notice. If you don’t treat it, you may lose your teeth, have [...]