SEOUL, Aug. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s amateur athletes are exposed to the risk of indiscreetly taking prohibited drugs due to a lack of awareness, data showed Sunday. The share of amateur athletes who said they had taken prohibited doping substances such as steroid hormones at least once was estimated at 34.8 percent, more [...]
CHUNCHEON, Sept. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Police in the eastern city of Chuncheon said Tuesday they arrested 14 people on charges of smuggling and distributing illegal drugs, and another four people, including TV celebrity Amy, who allegedly used narcotics from them, officials said Tuesday. The Gangwon Police Agency recently busted a drug trafficking operation that [...]
SEJONG, Sept. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of criminal cases involving marijuana smuggling has reached a record high this year. The Korea Customs Service reported there were 246 cases of marijuana smuggling as of August, with the amount of drugs seized reaching 55 kilograms, worth at least 1.7 billion won in total on the [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Over the past year, 1 in 8 Koreans turned out to have been prescribed narcotic anti-anxiety medication, a drug safety watchdog said Wednesday. The Ministry of Food and Drug Safety analyzed the use trend of narcotic anti-anxiety drugs for medical use monitored through the Narcotics Information Management System during [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent study has found that proton pump inhibitors (PPIs), the drugs commonly used in the treatment of reflux esophagitis, can increase the risk of COVID-19 patients suffering more severe illness by up to 79 percent. A research team consisting of professors at Cha University Graduate School of Medicine [...]
SEOUL, May 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Last year, one out of every three Koreans was prescribed pharmaceutical drugs, the country’s drug safety watchdog said Thursady. The Ministry of Food and Drug Safety revealed that it had confirmed this data by analyzing the status of pharmaceutical drug use reported to the integrated drug management system for [...]
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, May 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Algernon Pharmaceuticals Inc. (CSE: AGN) (FRANKFURT: AGW) (OTCQB: AGNPF) (the “Company” or “Algernon”) a clinical stage pharmaceutical development company, is pleased to announce that it has submitted an Investigational New Drug (IND) application with the U.S. FDA for its planned multinational Phase 2b/3 study of its re-purposed drug [...]
SEOUL, May 8 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea is conducting clinical tests for seven existing drugs to see if any of them can effectively treat the new coronavirus, a government official said Friday, noting a positive outcome of the tests may lead to the development of a cure for the virus before the year’s end [...]
SEOUL, April 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Artificial intelligence (AI), expected to change the paradigm of new drug development, is gaining new attention as it has proven to be very effective in the global battle with the coronavirus. As the world suffers from the spread of COVID-19, the need for speed when it comes to discovering [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — A third of South Koreans were given prescription narcotics in the past one-year period, as more people received comprehensive medical checkups, government data showed Tuesday. More than 17.8 million people received drugs like propofol and zolpidem, the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety said, citing some 107 million pieces [...]