SEOUL, Aug. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — The state rights watchdog on Wednesday ruled that it is discriminatory for insurance companies to deny people who take antidepressants while receiving psychotherapy treatments from subscribing to indemnity health insurance plans. The National Human Rights Commission of Korea (NHRCK) announced that it recommended that the CEOs of two local [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korea Agro-Fisheries & Trade Corp. (aT) said Thursday that an academic paper written by its researchers on the body fat reduction effect of red pepper paste, called “gochujang” in Korean, had been published in the international academic journal Nutrients. aT carried out the study in collaboration with the [...]
JEONJU, Aug. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Jeonbuk National University Hospital announced on Wednesday that its researchers had succeeded in immunologically clarifying the presumed correlation between COVID-19 and severe asthma and the risk of their combination. The research team published the results of their study in the latest online edition of the international journal Allergy. The [...]
SEOUL, July 29 (Korea Bizwire) — About one-third of South Koreans were prescribed drugs for medical use last year, data showed Thursday. The Ministry of Food and Drug Safety reported that 18.8 million people were prescribed medication by 104,000 doctors last year. Prescriptions for medication dropped slightly between 2019 (18.5 million) and 2020 (17.5 million) [...]
SEOUL, July 27 (Korea Bizwire) – Daesang Life Science, a South Korean manufacturer of health functional foods, said Wednesday it has inked a letter of intent with China Sinopharm International to set up a joint venture in a bid to make forays into the Chinese market. The two companies plan to build a factory in [...]
SEOUL, July 22 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent study showed that liquid-based e-cigarettes emit more ultrafine dust than regular cigarettes. The Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency photographed smoke and aerosols emitted from cigarettes to analyze their chemical composition, for the first time in the country, between September of last year and May. The results [...]
DAEJEON, July 21 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology said Wednesday it had developed a new biosensor that can accurately diagnose COVID-19 infection within a very short time through a smartphone app. The research team succeeded in detecting the target gene in a fast and accurate manner without separate gene [...]
SEOUL, July 20 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s state-run National Institute of Infectious Diseases (NIID) said Wednesday it has reached an agreement with Moderna Inc., a U.S. biotech company, to cooperate in the development of a messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccine candidate for severe fever and thrombocytopenia syndrome (SFTS). The institute said the deal, signed Monday, [...]
SEOUL, July 20 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean biopharmaceutical firm Samsung Bioepis Co. was in the process of acquiring regulatory approval from European and South Korean drug authorities for SB12, a paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH) treatment biosimilar candidate, industry sources said Wednesday. The company has submitted approval applications for SB12, a more affordable version of [...]
SEOUL, July 19 (Korea Bizwire) – Moderna Inc., a U.S. biotech company specializing in messenger RNA (mRNA) coronavirus vaccines, is committed to making its new bivalent vaccine candidate available next month, which reportedly demonstrates a superior antibody response against omicron variants. The company announced in June that the new bivalent coronavirus booster candidate, named mRNA-1273.214, [...]