SEOUL, Aug. 30 (Korea Bizwire) – Boryung Pharmaceutical Company’s proprietary hypertension pill Kanarb finally made its way to Mexico, the first occasion to be sold in overseas market, in the company’s history. Boryung announced on August 28 that it has successfully shipped the first batch of the new drug Kanarb to Mexico after receiving approval [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — The Severance Hospital of the Yonsei University Health System said on August 28 that it has developed a mobile app to manage patients with trachoma jointly with KT. The “Trachoma App” can allow medical field workers to check the conditions of the eye disease with simple instructions. This is expected to come [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 23 (Korea Bizwire) – Korea has increasingly become a single-household nation. It can be seen from TV reality shows and dramas that are likely to show the life of sing-person households. With the number of households headed by a single person increasing around the world, Korea is ranked No. 1 among OECD countries [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 17 (Korea Bizwire) –It turned out that such a wide gap in looking at the ‘work-life balance’ issue between the parties negotiating a contract — the Korea Football Association and Bert Van Marwijk – reportedly thwarted a nearly sealed agreement about selecting the next head coach for South Korea’s national football team in preparation for [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — The size of Korea’s market for finished drugs was 45 trillion won (US$43.7 billion) last year. According to the 2013 Yearbook for Finished Drug Sales” published by the Health Insurance Review & Assessment Service on August 12, the total amount of drugs sold in 2013 was 45,621.0 billion won, up 1.6 percent [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 7 (Korea Bizwire) –Three Nigerian university students declared to sue a Korean university to the United Nations. They were refused to attend a UN sponsored conference at a Korean university due to the outbreak of Ebola virus in their country. According to Duksung Women’s University which hosted the second World Congress of Global Partnership [...]
SEOUL, July 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Young Korean women aged 19 to 24 are light-weighted with the false notion that a slimmer body looks more attractive. They are doing excessive diet, fasting meals more often with less physical activities, a survey said. According to the survey released from the Korea Institute for Health and Social [...]
![[Infographic] Unbearable Pain of Shingles, You Are Not Alone](http://koreabizwire.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Shingles-thumbnail.jpg "[Infographic] Unbearable Pain of Shingles, You Are Not Alone")
SEOUL, July 30 (Korea Bizwire) – Shingles occurs in one’s weak immune system. The pain is beyond our imagination. Now, as the number of patients increases year by year, people are paying more attention to it. In the early stage of shingles, one can feel nausea, stomach ache, chill and fever. When symptoms persist, skin rashes and blisters [...]
SEOUL, July 29 (Korea Bizwire) –The Health Insurance Review & Assessment Service will roll up its sleeves to put brakes on hospitals abusing ultrasonography test. The figures for last year’s expenditure by patients on ultrasonography test certainly look suspicious enough to raise some eyebrows. The health insurance service estimated the total expenditure made by patients for [...]
SEOUL, July 29 (Korea Bizwire) — As the temperatures of the surrounding seas of Korean peninsula is going up, the number of patients, mostly holidaymakers to the beaches, suffering from the stings of jellyfish, is rising. According to the National Health Insurance Service, the number of people stung by jellyfish has increased to 1,183 in [...]