SEOUL, Jan. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean children are gaining weight as the coronavirus pandemic drags on, forcing them to stay home. A lack of physical activity and increased consumption of snacks and late-night meals are seen as primary factors. At a local academic conference last year, one of the studies pointed to a [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean researchers have developed mobile negative pressure isolation rooms for critically ill COVID-19 patients, a top science university said Thursday. The Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) said its team of researchers has tested a modular facility of negative pressure rooms, which are important for the [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Minor brain inflammation is instantly recovered, but in severe cases, it can bring about irreversible brain damage, causing degenerative brain diseases such as dementia. A South Korean research team has discovered a protein that can suppress the brain inflammation. The National Research Foundation of Korea announced on Wednesday that [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean biotech company GC Pharma said Wednesday it has completed phase two clinical trials of its plasma therapy treatment for the novel coronavirus. The plasma therapy, known as GC5131A, is a type of hyperimmune globulin drug that uses blood plasma taken from people who have fully recovered from [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Fine dust, which is common particularly during Korean winters, is associated with metabolic syndrome like diabetes, research showed Thursday. Researchers from Konkuk University conducted a study of 5,717 male and female adults over 19 years of age to verify the correlation between their level of insulin resistance, which plays [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea on Thursday signed a deal with U.S. biotech company Moderna to buy new coronavirus vaccine doses for 20 million people, with the supply to begin in the second quarter of next year, health authorities said. Following the deal, the total amount of COVID-19 vaccines South Korea has [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — The average age when South Korean young women experience their first period has dropped by five months over the past 15 years, a recent study revealed. Researchers from Inje University Sanggye Paik Hospital studied the average age of women who had experienced their first period among 351,006 women between [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — U.S. biotech company Moderna has agreed to supply new coronavirus vaccine doses for 20 million people to South Korea starting in the second quarter of next year, Cheong Wa Dae announced Tuesday. The agreement was reached in a videoconference between President Moon Jae-in and Moderna CEO Stephane Bancel held [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s medicine regulator said Sunday it will shorten an approval process of COVID-19 vaccines and treatments, as the nation signed deals to import coronavirus vaccines amid the winter wave of the pandemic. It usually takes about 180 days for a vaccine to be approved under a standard licensing [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Middle-aged men are consuming too many calories, while women in their 20s typically consume less energy than they need. The Ministry of Health and Welfare published a report Wednesday on calorie consumption categorized by age and gender. The report, based on a study led by the Korean Nutrition Society, [...]