DAEJEON, April 13 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean research team has developed new technology that enables users to easily check with their bare eyes whether COVID-19 vaccines from companies such as Pfizer Inc. and Moderna that need to be stored at low temperature are safely distributed. Researchers from the state-run Korea Research Institute of [...]
SEOUL, April 13 (Korea Bizwire) — With school attendance halted due to the COVID-19 pandemic, obesity-related indexes such as the body mass index (BMI) for children and teenagers have worsened, a recent study found. A research team from the Samsung Medical Center conducted a study of 90 obesity patients in childhood and adolescence from 6 [...]
SEOUL, April 11 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea on Sunday decided to resume administering AstraZeneca vaccines to eligible recipients after temporarily putting the program on hold amid growing concerns over its safety. The use of AstraZeneca’s vaccine will resume Monday, except for those aged 30 and below, according to the Korea Disease Control and Prevention [...]
SEOUL, April 9 (Korea Bizwire) – The combination of offline health coaching with smartphone-based online coaching helps improve the self-management of individuals suffering from chronic diseases, a recent study showed. A research team from the Department of Family Medicine at Seoul National University Hospital said Thursday that it had tested the effectiveness of the offline health coaching [...]
SEOUL, April 7 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea decided Wednesday to suspend a AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccination program for people younger than 60 due to concerns related to blood clots. Set to start on Thursday, AstraZeneca vaccination programs for special education instructors and teachers at kindergarten, elementary, middle and high schools, about 70,000 in total, will [...]
SEOUL, April 2 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean research team has found that the extract of invasive algae called Sargassum horneri, believed to have come from China’s east coast, has the effect of preventing and curing psoriasis, an inflammatory skin condition. Sargassum horneri’s several branches stem from its small sitting cushion-shaped root. The branches [...]
SEOUL, April 2 (Korea Bizwire) — KT Corp., a major South Korean telecom operator, said Thursday that it has established the nation’s first ‘digital health pass’ platform in collaboration with Incheon International Airport and the Inha University Hospital. The company said that the platform aims to support the safe entry and departure of people into [...]
SEOUL, April 1 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea on Thursday began administering COVID-19 vaccines to members of the general public aged 75 or above and other virus-vulnerable groups as the country accelerates its nationwide inoculation campaign. Some 3.5 million people aged 75 and older began getting vaccinated with U.S. pharmaceutical company Pfizer Inc. products, the [...]
SEOUL, March 31 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s nationwide inoculation against the novel coronavirus is expected to lose pace due to vaccination delivery delays as health authorities aim to achieve so-called herd immunity by November. Earlier this week, the authorities announced that a planned delivery of COVID-19 vaccines by British-Swedish pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca and Oxford [...]
DAEJEON, March 26 (Korea Bizwire) – A South Korean research team has developed an adjuvant that can help vaccines work better. The Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology said Thursday that researchers had developed an adjuvant that acts as a fake RNA virus to make it easier for the vaccine to penetrate the cell and invigorate the immune [...]