SEOUL, April 30 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will allow the use of an Ebola virus drug in treating coronavirus patients if the drug proves to be effective and safe through clinical tests, officials said Thursday. The drug, Remdesivir, has drawn keen attention since the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) said [...]
Washington, DC, March 5 (Korea Bizwire) — The Sabin Vaccine Institute (Sabin) today announced that it has partnered with the Vaccine Research Center (VRC), National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), to manufacture prototype ChAd3 vectored Ebola Sudan and Marburg vaccines to be used for further clinical evaluation and outbreak preparedness and to potentially [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Though the South Korean public considers the introduction of diseases originating abroad (MERS, ebola, avian influenza) a serious problem, the percentage of those who believe that they themselves are at risk of contracting one of these diseases was found to be low. In a survey of 1,000 adults carried [...]
TEL-AVIV, Israel, Jul. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — RedHill Biopharma Ltd. (NASDAQ:RDHL) (TASE:RDHL) (“RedHill” or the “Company”), a biopharmaceutical company primarily focused on development and commercialization of late clinical-stage, proprietary, orally-administered, small molecule drugs for inflammatory and gastrointestinal diseases and cancer, today announced the signing of a research collaboration agreement with the U.S. National Institute of [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will send its second batch of medical personnel to Ebola-hit Sierra Leone this weekend as initially planned despite concerns about the possible infection of a South Korean medical worker there, officials said Friday. A team of 10-strong medical workers will leave South Korea on Saturday on a [...]
SEJONG, Dec 30 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean government will provide an additional US$5 million in assistance to tackle Ebola in Sierra Leone, Seoul’s foreign ministry announced on December 30. The ministry said that $3 million will be spent on operation costs for an Ebola-dedicated clinic under construction in Goderich, near the capital Freetown. [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 31 (Korea Bizwire) – A lot more medical workers have applied for a medical care team to be dispatched to Ebola-hit nations than expected. The Ministry of Health and Welfare, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in South Korea jointly announced on October 29 that a total of 40 medical staff [...]
SAN DIEGO, Oct. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — It hardly can be a better timing for this invention – a risk of the Ebola epidemic and need for screening people to detect fever demands instant availability of non-contact medical thermometers. Fraden Corporation of San Diego (www.fraden.com) announces that it was granted a second U.S. patent for [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 23 (Korea Bizwire) – Another epidemic spreads across the world: “Fear-bola.” People around the world are now deeply concerned about the Ebola epidemic in their homes. Mel Robbins, a CNN commentator and legal analyst, has first given it the name Fear-bola. She said, “Fear-bola attacks the part of the brain responsible for rational [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – Following an announcement on October 20 by LG Electronics that it would donate 2,000 smartphones to help fight the spread of Ebola virus in Africa for the doctors and emergency medical workers for the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), Samsung Electronics also said on [...]