SEOUL, Feb. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean panel of experts has said that vaccines for the novel coronavirus by AstraZeneca can be administered to elderly people amid efficacy controversies, according to the country’s drug safety agency Monday. The independent advisory board announced its review on efficacy and safety of the vaccines developed by [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — A subsidiary of South Korean pharmaceutical firm Green Cross Corp. said Friday it has participated in a partnership deal worth US$1.8 billion to develop natural killer (NK) cell therapies to treat cancer. Under the collaboration, Green Cross LabCell will co-develop three kinds of chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) NK cell [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 28 (Korea Bizwire) – Front-line medical workers in South Korea will get the first COVID-19 vaccinations starting next month, with the general public to be inoculated during the latter half of this year, health authorities here said Thursday. A nationwide free vaccination campaign will begin in late February, starting with medical professionals treating [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — The components of green tea can contribute to reducing fine dust absorption within the human body while improving the health of the respiratory system, a study showed Wednesday. Kim Joo-won, a PhD researcher at AmorePacific Corp.’s Technology Research Institute, tested human bronchial cells to study what impact the components [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Unlike most medical centers that have been hit hard during the coronavirus pandemic, plastic surgery clinics set a new record for the number of surgical procedures conducted last year. A local liposuction clinic 365mc reported Tuesday that it had conducted a whopping 31,241 liposuction surgeries last year, setting a [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — The results of a recent study suggest that microwave-processed red ginseng can prevent the spread of cancer cells. A joint research team from the Korea Institute of Science and Technology and the Asan Medical Center announced on Tuesday the development of a new red ginseng processing technology that uses [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 25 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea aims to get 70 percent of its population inoculated by September and start the first vaccination next month, with so-called “herd immunity” here predicted to be created by November, health authorities said Monday. The Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) announced a set of core tasks [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Despite all-out efforts made by the South Korean government and professionals to prevent suicide, the country’s suicide rate continues to top the list of member states of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), with no sign of a decline. Against this backdrop, a recent study showed that [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — A kitten has tested positive for the new coronavirus in the first virus case involving a pet reported in South Korea. “During a recent tracking process involving a mass outbreak, health authorities found that a pet has tested positive for COVID-19 in the first such case,” Prime Minister Chung [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent study has lent credence to the notion that probiotics, including lactic acid bacteria that produce useful effects in the human body, have the potential to cure inflammatory allergic skin diseases. A joint research team of scientists from Yonsei University and the Pohang University of Science and Technology [...]