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HLB said that its U.S. subsidiary Elevar Therapeutics has started marketing Apealea, an ovarian cancer treatment, in Germany after listing the drug on Gelbe Liste, a German drug distribution website.Elevar acquired the global rights for the drug from Vivesto, the original developers, in March 2020.
Pharma
Lee Han-soo
2022.05.06 17:32
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Shionogi, a Japanese pharmaceutical company, halted its phase 2/3 trial of S-217622, an oral Covid-19 treatment candidate, in the Philippines.According to Philippine Health Research Registry on Monday, Shionogi updated the S-217622 phase 2/3 clinical trial status in the Philippines to “terminated” a
Pharma
Kim Chan-hyuk
2022.05.09 15:18
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AstraZeneca (AZ) and Daiichi Sankyo’s Enhertu (trastuzumab deruxtecan), the second-generation antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) that showed superiority to Roche’s Kadcyla in HER2-positive breast cancer treatment, received U.S. approval for patients with metastatic HER2-positive breast cancer after one p
Pharma
Kim Yun-mi
2022.05.06 16:14
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You wake up in the morning, use the toilet, and the urine analysis shows that you need nutrition control and excessive sodium intake. This was a scene from the 2005 film “The Island.”People might think that such a thing could happen only in a movie, but it is happening now. Researchers have develope
Device/ICT
Song Soo-youn
2022.05.05 10:49
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Celltrion Healthcare said that it would expand direct sales, previously limited to only some products, to all products in the European market.The company has sold Remsima (ingredient: infliximab), a biosimilar for treating autoimmune diseases, directly in Europe since 2019. Since then, despite inten
Bio
Lee Han-soo
2022.05.10 14:20
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Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI) said that it has exported Germanium-68, a medical radioactive isotope, to Sanders Medical, a U.S. medical device company.According to the state-invested institute, the contract with Sanders Medical marks the first time that Korea has exported a radioact
Device/ICT
Lee Han-soo
2022.05.09 17:02
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Health authorities have started to check for a new nitrosamine impurity in quetiapine medicines.Quetiapine is a treatment for schizophrenia and has a prescription market size of 30 billion won ($23.7 million). The original product is Alvogen Korea’s Seroquel, with 30 pharmaceutical companies selling
Policy
Lee Han-soo
2022.05.06 16:11
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BMS Korea said that the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety has recently approved its myelofibrosis treatment Inrebic (ingredient: pedratinib) and myelodysplastic syndrome treatment Reblozyl (ingredient: ruspartercept),Inrebic received approval from regulators to treat adults with an enlarged spleen an
Pharma
Lee Han-soo
2022.05.11 18:23
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Digital healthcare companies should prove that their devices can improve the quality of patient care if they want their products to get national health insurance coverage, experts said.The digital healthcare industry should also pursue a shift in people’s perception that using medical devices with d
Device/ICT
Koh Jung Min
2022.05.13 11:58
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Amgen announced its achievement in four ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) strategic categories in 2021 in a report.Based in the U.S., the multinational pharmaceutical firm released the 2021 ESG Report on Wednesday.The report explained how much the company moved forward in Amgen’s ESG frame
Pharma
Kim Yun-mi
2022.05.12 12:40
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A new drug, which proved heart and kidney protection effects in chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients accompanying type-2 diabetes, has arrived in Korea to counter well-established SGLT-2 inhibitors.On Tuesday, the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety authorized the use of Bayer’s Kerendia (ingredient:
Pharma
Kim Yun-mi
2022.05.11 11:52
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Astellas Pharma recently announced it would transform into an oncology drug developer and started reorganizing units and building pipelines for anticancer drug development.In line with the headquarters’ business direction, Astellas Korea also completed the reorganization of the oncology division to
Pharma
Kim Yun-mi
2022.05.16 12:59
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The Ministry of Food and Drug Safety (MFDS) and the pharmaceutical industry are wrangling over whether the nation should allow the indirect export of botulinum toxin (BTX) products through agencies.Industry officials raised concerns that the latest controversy, sparked by the regulator’s detection o
Pharma
Kim Chan-hyuk
2022.05.06 12:00
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Korean biotech companies said they would gather at Bio Korea 2022, a health and pharmaceutical industry trade fair, to discuss business strategies in the post-Covid-19 era.The Korea Health Industry Development Institute (KHIDI) and North Chungcheong Province jointly organized the annual event, which
Bio
Kim Chan-hyuk
2022.05.11 15:40
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VUNO said that it has signed a memorandum of understanding with Visual Medica, the largest picture archiving and communication systems (PASC) company in Latin America, to expand its solution into the regional market.Under the accord, VUNO and Visual Medicaq plan to market four of the Korean company’
Device/ICT
Lee Han-soo
2022.05.13 19:02
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President Yoon Suk-yeol plans to provide Covid-19 vaccines and other medical products for North Korean residents, Cheong Wa Dae Spokesperson Kang In-sun said on Friday.“It is known that the number of suspected infections is surging in North Korea recently due to the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic
Policy
Lee Han-soo
2022.05.13 19:02
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Korean developers of digital therapeutics (DTx) should prioritize demonstrating how their products work precisely to improve therapeutic effect, an industry expert said.Kim Chi-weon, a partner at Kakao Ventures, shared the status of insurance benefits for local and foreign DTx at Bio Korea 2022 in S
Device/ICT
Kim Chan-hyuk
2022.05.13 15:44
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Forxiga (dapagliflozin) and Jardiance (empagliflozin), the two representative SGLT-2 inhibitors, are competing not only in diabetes but cardio and renal diseases.On Thursday, AstraZeneca said Forxiga met the primary endpoint in a large-scale global phase 3 study, DELIVER, reducing the risk of cardio
Pharma
Kim Yun-mi
2022.05.09 15:21
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Yuyu Pharmaceutical presented a poster study for YP-P10, its new dry eye syndrome treatment, during the 2022 ARVO (Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology) conference.ARVO, established in 1928, is the world's largest ophthalmology society and has 12,000 research members from over 75 cou
Pharma
Lee Han-soo
2022.05.06 11:59
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"We must be wary of unwarrantedly denigrating quarantine results achieved through the participation of the whole nation by enduring pain and discomfort," Prime Minister Kim Boo-kyum said Monday.Kim, the Covid-19 czar of the Moon Jae-in administration, said so while presiding over the last daily quar
Policy
Lee Han-soo
2022.05.06 18:08
