SEOUL, April 11 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean pharmaceutical firm Yuhan Corp. said Monday its degenerative disc drug licensed out to an American drug company will go on Phase 3 clinical trial in the United States. U.S.-based Spine BioPharma has been given permission from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to bypass the second phase [...]
SEOUL, April 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Half of children aged nine and below have been infected with COVID-19, health authorities said Saturday. The accumulated number of infected children in the age bracket had reached 1,887,337 as of Saturday, according to Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency. That translates into nearly 50,190 out of every 100,000 [...]
SEOUL, April 8 (Korea Bizwire) — A significant percentage of young adults who haven’t received any COVID-19 vaccinations have no plans to take them in the future. The National Youth Policy Institute conducted a survey of 4,347 teenagers and young adults between 9 and 24 years of age, in which 16.4 percent had been vaccinated [...]
SEOUL, April 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Seven in 10 South Koreans have already used or are willing to use telemedicine services during the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, a survey showed Thursday. A joint research team from the National Cancer Center and the Seoul National University Bundang Hospital conducted a survey of 2,097 adults over [...]
DAEJEON, April 5 (Korea Bizwire) — New technology has been developed that makes it easier to detect gamma hydroxybutyric acid (GHB), a drug abused for sexual crimes. A joint research team from the Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology and the Korea Institute of Toxicology said Monday that it had developed a new gel [...]
SEOUL, April 1 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean drugmaker Medytox Inc. said Friday it has filed a complaint with a U.S. trade panel against domestic rival botox maker Hugel Inc. over a botulinum toxin strain. The complaint lodged with the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) targets top South Korean botox maker Hugel, its U.S. and [...]
SEOUL, March 31 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean vaccine maker SK Bioscience Co. will expand its business portfolio to secure a new growth engine with the aim of becoming a global top-tier biotechnology firm by 2025, its chief said Thursday. Celebrating the one-year anniversary of its initial public offering (IPO) on the main bourse, the [...]
SEOUL, March 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Fewer family interactions in the pandemic era have resulted in a doubling of the risk of depression among seniors, a study showed Tuesday. A research team from the SMG-SNU Boramae Medical Center and Seoul National University Bundang Hospital announced on Tuesday the results of a nationwide cohort survey on [...]
SEOUL, March 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Biologics Co., the biotech arm of South Korea’s Samsung Group, aims to expand its presence in the global market through full ownership of Samsung Bioepis, its chief executive said Tuesday. Samsung Biologics is the leading contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) specializing in the development and manufacturing of [...]
SEOUL, March 25 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean teenagers spend about an hour and a half on average when they participate in a sports activity, a survey showed Thursday. The average monthly frequency of their participation in sports activities stood at 9.6 times, according to the survey conducted of 2,238 teenagers by the National Youth [...]