SEOUL, July 12 (Korea Bizwire) — A new artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm has been developed that can predict lung cancer patients’ response to immuno-oncology treatment on the basis of their clinical information. A joint research team from the Yonsei Cancer Hospital and the Yonsei University Medical School said it had developed a machine learning-based algorithm [...]
SEOUL, July 8 (Korea Bizwire) — COVID-19 patients including those suffering from both mild and severe syptoms are experiencing a severe imbalance of microorganisms inside the stomach. A research team from the Kangbuk Samsung Hospital collected stool samples from 12 COVID-19 patients, both asymptomatic and mild, transferred to a public health center in Yeongdeok, North [...]
SEOUL, July 8 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korea Institute of Oriental Medicine said Wednesday that it had proved the effectiveness of the prescribed oriental medicine Samultang in improving subfertility following a series of animal tests. Samultang refers to a traditional oriental medicine that is made by prescription using four medicinal herbs – rehmannia glutinosa, angelica [...]
SEOUL, July 6 (Korea Bizwire) — A new study claims that the loss of one’s sense of smell caused by COVID-19 can be treated with special training using lemon and cinnamon. A research team from the Korea University Ansan Hospital conducted a two-month olfactory training program for 53 patients recovering from the coronavirus between April [...]
SEOUL, July 6 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will receive 700,000 doses of the coronavirus vaccine by Pfizer Inc. from Israel under an exchange deal, health authorities said Tuesday. The Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) said the expiring COVID-19 vaccine doses will arrive in the country early Wednesday and will be used for [...]
SEOUL, July 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Over the past several years, cholesterol levels in South Korean children and teenagers have surged, with about one third suffering from dyslipidemia. A joint research team from the Gangnam Severance Hospital and the Yongin Severance Hospital analyzed cholesterol levels for 8,731 teenagers between the ages of 10 and 18, [...]
SEOUL, June 30 (Korea Bizwire) — After enjoying explosive growth during the COVID-19 pandemic, South Korea’s test kit makers are exploring ways to diversify their business portfolio in a preemptive move to cope with the deterioration of their financial performance in the post-coronavirus era. Seegene Inc., a major diagnostic assay maker in the country, unveiled [...]
SEOUL, June 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. on Friday said it will begin running an in-house vaccination program for its workers next month to beef up antivirus measures amid the pandemic. The tech giant will inoculate employees aged 18-59 working at its plants in South Korea, as well as those dispatched from its [...]
SEOUL, June 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Display Co., a major display panel maker in South Korea, said Thursday it will launch an in-house vaccination program next month to better fight the novel coronavirus pandemic. Samsung Display workers will be administered Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine at its in-house medical clinics from July 27 in cooperation with [...]
SEOUL, June 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Medical artificial intelligence (AI) companies are making great strides with the scope of their services being diversified from the diagnosis of hard-to-diagnose diseases to the prediction of the risk of being afflicted with specific diseases. South Korean startup VUNO Inc. published the world’s first cardiac arrest-related paper in the [...]