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The Yonsei University College of Medicine (YUCM)’s Institute of Tropical Medicine hosted the 45th Tropical Medicine Symposium as an online meeting on Saturday to discuss ways to respond to various infectious diseases.Six infectious disease experts gave lectures to about 50 participants on global hea
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Marianne Chang
2022.06.27 13:40
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Chinese pharmaceutical companies, including Antengene, Everest Medicines, and BeiGene, established Korean offshoots recently. Unlike other Chinese companies that used to export drug ingredients to Korea, these companies aim to target the Korean market with innovative drugs for serious diseases like
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Kim Yun-mi
2022.06.24 11:53
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The suicide of professor Koh won-jung at Samsung Medical Center, an authority in tuberculosis and non-tuberculous mycobacteria (NTM), sent a great shock to the medical community in 2019.In the same year, another doctor killed himself. He was a thoracic surgeon treating patients for nearly 19 years a
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Song Soo-youn
2022.06.23 15:54
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The loss of routines in the lives of Korean people caused by Covid-19 appeared to have affected their physical states by, for instance, growing a muffin top.According to the "2017-2021 Nutrient Deficiency and Obesity Statistics" released by the Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service on April
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Lee Han-soo
2022.06.17 19:01
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COPENHAGEN – With the 2022 European Alliance of Associations for Rheumatology (EULAR) Congress holding an in-person conference for the first time in two years, Korean professors also had the chance to show off their recent research in the field.Notably, Professor Jung Jae-hyun of the Department of R
Special Report on EULAR 2022
Lee Han-soo, Korea Biomedical Review correspondent
2022.06.06 17:07
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COPENHAGEN – Bristol Myers Squibb’s deucravacitinib, a lupus treatment candidate, drew keen attention from global rheumatologists as the company unveiled the phase 2 study at the 2022 European Alliance of Associations for Rheumatology (EULAR) Congress Saturday.The phase 2 PAISLEY study evaluated deu
Special Report on EULAR 2022
Lee Han-soo, Korea Biomedical Review correspondent
2022.06.05 18:23
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COPENHAGEN -- Celltrion aims to gain the upper hand in the fiercely competitive infliximab biosimilar market through direct selling Remsima SC, a top manager said Thursday."Currently, competition for infliximab biosimilars is cut-throat," Celltrion Vice President Choi Byoung-seo said during an inter
Special Report on EULAR 2022
Lee Han-soo, Korea Biomedical Review correspondent
2022.06.03 17:22
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COPENHAGEN -- A new analysis of the phase 3 clinical trial showed that Remsima SC (Ingredient: infliximab) made a significantly greater improvement in clinical outcomes compared to the intravenous (IV) in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA).The post-hoc study focused on confirming whether the nu
Special Report on EULAR 2022
Lee Han-soo, Korea Biomedical Review correspondent
2022.06.03 12:20
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COPENHAGEN – The 2022 European Alliance of Associations for Rheumatology (EULAR 2022) European Congress of Rheumatology kicked off its 75th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting in Copenhagen, Denmark, on Wednesday.After two years of an online-only event due to the Covid-19 pandemic, EULAR has deci
Special Report on EULAR 2022
Lee Han-soo, KBR correspondent
2022.06.02 14:53
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COPENHAGEN -- The 2022 European Alliance of Associations for Rheumatology (EULAR 2022) European Congress of Rheumatology kicked off its four day-run on Wednesday.Many multinational pharmaceutical companies, including Celltrion of Korea, joined the convention, setting up booths to introduce the lates
Special Report on EULAR 2022
Lee Han-soo, KBR correspondent
2022.06.02 12:30
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After becoming the general manager of Merck Biopharma Korea in 2019, Javed Alam has worked to transform the company into a specialty care leader by responding to unmet needs in the area of rare diseases.Industry insiders say that despite the huge obstacle of the Covid-19 pandemic, Alam played a cent
Interview with global pharma
Lee Han-soo
2022.05.17 13:30
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There are more than 7,000 types of rare diseases in the world, according to the World Health Organization.In Korea, a rare disease is defined as a disease that affects fewer than 20,000 people or whose number of carriers is unknown because to diagnose a disease.The number of Korean patients with rar
SPECIAL SERIES IN CELEBRATION OF KBR’S 6TH ANNIVERSARY
You Ji-young
2022.04.25 11:25
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Bayer, long a household word in cardiovascular diseases and women's health, is distinguishing itself in new blockbuster candidates and novel platforms while adding to its traditional strength.For instance, the global pharmaceutical giant is undergoing crucial changes by replacing its current blockbu
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Lee Han-soo
2022.03.07 11:58
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Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in the United States has become a leader in cancer treatment by collecting cancer-related clinical information through its oncology knowledge database – Oncology Knowledge Base. The OncoKB reportedly has data on the clinical and biological effects of 682 cancer
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You Ji-young
2022.02.25 16:40
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LAS VEGAS, Nev. -- Changes in medical consumption brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic will continue in the future, as receiving medical care and health management services at home instead of hospitals is rapidly becoming a trend.Such views came at the “Health at Home: Meeting Needs of Consumers”
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Kim Yoon-mi
2022.01.07 18:28
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Although the Covid-19 pandemic persisted throughout the year, the healthcare industry continued to fulfill its duty based on experiences of last year. While going all out to develop Covid-19 treatments and vaccines, the industry tried to graft new technologies, including AI, to promote the sector's
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Park Gi-taek
2021.12.31 11:56
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Although the Covid-19 pandemic persisted throughout the year, the healthcare industry continued to fulfill its duty based on experiences of last year. While going all out to develop Covid-19 treatments and vaccines, the industry tried to graft new technologies, including AI, to promote the sector's
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Lee Han-soo
2021.12.30 12:15
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Although the Covid-19 pandemic persisted throughout the year, the healthcare industry continued to fulfill its duty based on experiences of last year. While going all out to develop Covid-19 treatments and vaccines, the industry tried to graft new technologies, including AI, to promote the sector's
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Lee Han-soo
2021.12.29 12:34
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Until the mid-20th century, there had been no concept of surgery in fractures.People called fracture “fracture disease” because many complications occurred in treating fractures, such as pressure sores, infections, and even pneumonia. In the 1950s, a group of Swiss orthopedists formed a study group
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Shim Hyun-tai
2021.12.28 18:19
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The Covid-19 pandemic did not come to an end in 2021. The pandemic was the most worrying social issue this year. Korea has been fighting Covid-19 for two years but is still struggling. The pandemic was not the only issue in the medical community this year. For the first time in the world, Korea enac
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Kwak Sung-sun
2021.12.28 10:57
