SEOUL, Sept. 24 (Korea Bizwire) – Bukwang Pharmaceutical, famous for anemia medicine Feroba, is expected to acquire Danish bio-venture firm Contera Pharma, which developed a new treatment material for Parkinson’s disease. After the acquisition, the Korean medical company will focus on the development of medicine for the disease. On September 23, Bukwang announced that it [...]
SEOUL, Sep. 20 (Korea Bizwire) – Surprisingly enough, it appears that patients in their 20s and 30s with Crohn’s disease are soaring high in number. On September 18, according to Congressman Kim Jae-won of Health and Welfare Committee who analyzed data from the Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service, last year the number of patients in [...]
SEOUL, Sep. 20 (Korea Bizwire) – The Osong International Bio Industry Exposition 2014 starts on its big run of 17 days from September 26 to October 12 in Osong, North Chungcheong Province. Exhibitions with various themes such as Bio Future Universe Pavilion, Bio Health Experience Center, Beauty Experience Center and Education Experience Center will welcome [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – With world class water supply technology, the Seoul Metropolitan Government will join an effort to develop water purification plants in Central Java of Indonesia and will support Korean small- and mid-sized companies’ advancement into overseas water supply business. On September 16, the city government announced that it signed an agreement for the [...]
SEOUL, Sep. 17 (Korea Bizwire) – The National Health Insurance Service in Korea analyzed 109,028,689 cases of big data on public health information from 2002 to 2013 to find out the proportion of Class I and Class II obesity occurrence in terms of gender and age. Up to now, it is hard to tell how many [...]
SEOUL, Sep. 16 (Korea Bizwire) – Along with the Korean government’s recent announcement to raise the cigarette price by 2,000 won, or about US$2, from January next year, it also said on September 14 that a plan to hike a tobacco product price would be implemented in line with the rise of consumer prices in [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 16 (Korea Bizwire) – The National Health Insurance Service (NHIS) filed a lawsuit against Korea Tobacco & Ginseng (KT&G), Philip Morris International Korea, and British American Tobacco (BAT), claiming, “The three companies are obliged to recompense our compensatory damages paid over tobacco-related diseases like lung cancer and laryngeal cancer.” The hearing held at the Seoul [...]
SEOUL, Sep. 16 (Korea Bizwire) – According to a report on depression of Korean adults published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Korea, 12.9 percent, or one in eight, of Korean adults over 19 have experienced depression within the last year. In terms of gender, 16.5 percent of women have suffered from [...]
SEOUL, Sep. 15 (Korea Bizwire) – The first trial in a 53.7-billion-won lawsuit raised by the National Health Insurance Corporation against major tobacco companies was held in the afternoon of September 12 at the Seoul Central District Court. The defendants in the court were KT&G, Philip Morris Korea and BAT Korea. Chung Mi-hwa, the lead attorney [...]
SEOUL, Sep. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – Two newborn babies were seriously injured from a burn in the incubator at an obstetrician’s office in Andong, North Gyeongsang Province. One of the babies is in critical condition from a fourth-degree burn. According to the public health office of Andong on September 12, a baby daughter of a [...]