SEOUL, Dec. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea has signed deals with Johnson & Johnson’s Janssen and Pfizer to purchase COVID-19 vaccines, with a goal of starting vaccinations in the second quarter of 2021, health authorities said Thursday. The government will buy vaccines for 10 million people from Pfizer and 6 million from Janssen, which [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Excessive consumption of energy drinks can cause allergies, a study showed Tuesday. A research team from Hallym University Medical Center conducted a study of 129,809 young South Koreans between the ages of 12 and 18 who participated in the 2015-2016 Youth Health Behavior Survey, finding a correlation between energy [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Over half of South Koreans think the speed at which coronavirus vaccinations are carried out is more important than verifying their safety, a public survey showed Wednesday. In the Realmeter survey conducted on 500 people aged 18 or older nationwide Tuesday, 54.9 percent of the respondents said the country [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent study revealed that roughly 4 in 10 smokers in South Korea decided to quit smoking after experiencing deteriorating health. The Korea Health Promotion Institution conducted an online survey of 1,031 male and female adults between the ages of 20 and 65 nationwide, 44.5 percent of whom picked [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean research team has developed a new technology that can cure cerebral stroke without surgical operations. Researchers from the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) recently announced that they had developed a wireless low strength high intensity focused ultrasound brain stimulator that can cure cerebral strokes [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent study found that the share of carbohydrates in the caloric content of one meal for South Korean adults averages a whopping 67 percent. Researchers at Gangnam Severance Hospital in Seoul tracked 42,192 adults who participated in separate national health and nutritional surveys conducted between 2007 and 2015. [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — The Ministry of Food and Drug Safety has developed a new system dubbed ‘Patient Safety Information Check System’ that enables patients to check information on implanted medical devices such as breast implants and artificial joints. With the new system, patients can check a variety of information on their implanted [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean drugmaker maker Daewoong Pharmaceutical Co. aims to launch a treatment drug for the novel coronavirus early next year, the company’s chief said Monday. Foistar, an oral protease inhibitor, is currently undergoing phase two clinical trial on COVID-19 patients with mild symptoms. The company aims to release the [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will be able to start the coronavirus vaccination of its people in the first quarter of next year on a limited basis, according to Prime Minister Chung Sye-kyun. “Inoculation will begin as early as in February or March at the latest,” he said in an interview with [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s government issued an emergency order earlier this week dictating private hospitals nationwide earmark a certain portion of their intensive-care beds for seriously ill COVID-19 patients, officials said Saturday. The administrative order, the first of its kind, was delivered by the Central Disaster Management Headquarters to all local [...]