SEOUL, March 23 (Korea Bizwire) – The Seoul Metropolitan Government said Tuesday it had developed a universal design model for childcare spaces in public facilities, easily accessible to all groups of people. Universal design ensures safe, comfortable access for all visitors regardless of gender, age, disability and nationality. Based on expert counseling and public surveys, [...]
SEOUL, March 21 (Korea Bizwire) — The U.S. subsidiary of South Korean biopharmaceutical company Celltrion Inc. logged record high sales in the U.S. market last year on the back of robust sales of its self-diagnostic kit for COVID-19, officials said Monday. The annual revenue of Celltrion USA, Inc., the wholly owned subsidiary of Celltrion, reached [...]
GWANGJU, March 17 (Korea Bizwire) – The Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST) said Wednesday that its research team had identified the cause of COVID-19 aftereffects using machine learning, a type of artificial intelligence (AI) technology. Thus far, it has been reported that COVID-19 causes various aftereffects, including not only respiratory symptoms such as [...]
UIJEONGBU, March 14 (Korea Bizwire) — A new diagnostic method that looks at how a person walks to determine if they are suffering from Parkinson’s disease or dementia has been patented. A research team from St. Mary’s Hospital in Uijeongbu developed a new diagnostic method that collects data from an individual’s shoes to diagnose degenerative [...]
SEOUL, March. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of individuals suffering from chronic renal failure is surging in South Korea. Chronic renal failure, if severe, may require kidney dialysis or even a kidney transplant. The National Health Insurance Service conducted a study on health insurance records for the period between 2016 and 2020, which showed [...]
SEOUL, March 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Companies utilizing so-called “FemTech” or female technology to offer gender-related information and medical services to women are on the rise. My Own Room, an app developed by startup AROOO, specializes in offering gender-related information to women. The app is exclusively available for women, in which members can share their [...]
SEOUL, March 2 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean pharmaceutical giant Celltrion Inc. said Wednesday that its autoimmune disease biosimilar Yuflyma has begun sales in the domestic market. Yuflyma — a biosimilar referencing blockbuster drug Humira by AbbVie Inc. — is used to treat patients with multiple chronic inflammatory diseases, such as rheumatoid arthritis and psoriasis. [...]
SEOUL, March 2 (Korea Bizwire) — This winter’s flu season is likely to pass unnoticed again as influenza, a contagious respiratory disease that is most commonly seen in the winter, remains overwhelmed by COVID-19. The number of suspected flu patients per 1,000 outpatients stood at 3.7 persons in the eighth week of 2022 (Feb. 13-19), [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Video games specially developed to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are capable of increasing the blood flow that is lacking in certain parts of the brain, a study showed Thursday. A research team from Chung-Ang University Hospital created a game co-developed by public agencies and private companies and [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean pharmaceutical giant Celltrion Inc. on Thursday anticipated its antibody treatment against COVID-19 under development would show efficacy against the omicron variant. Celltrion said that CT-P63 has maintained strong neutralizing ability against the omicron variant during pseudo-virus testing. The candidate treatment is currently under clinical trials. The announcement [...]