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First Korean cholera patient infected from traveling Philippine
The Korean Centers for Disease Control and Prevention(Director Eun-Kyeong Jeong, KCDC) requested travelers to follow the infectious disease prevention rules, like a proper way to washing hands and safe dietary life, a...
Hospice and life prolong treatment services extended
The Ministry of Health of Welfare(Minister Neung-Hoo Park, MOHW) announced it will prepare and enforce ordinances and regulations which regulated the details of ‘life prolonging treatment law for patients in hospice c...
Continuous growth in quasi drug market with high interests in hygiene field
The last year’s quasi drug manufacturing performance was increased by 4.9% to KRW 1.9465 trillion compared to 2015, and the manufacturing performance of products, such as disinfectants and insecticides, due to the inc...
How will AI impact on medical services and human life in the future?
Opinions were suggested that a role of doctors will be enlarged in the treatment field based on various cases of Watson, an artificial intelligence(AI) doctor. It was predicted, moreover, the future AI technology will...
What is the most prescribed biologic for rheumatoid arthritis?
A result was out that ‘Actemra(generic name: tocilzumab),’ a JW Pharmaceutical’s interleukin-6 receptor inhibitor, was the most prescribed pharmaceutical product among biologics used as a treatment of rheumatoid arthr...
KCDC & WHO seek for plans on vaccine safety control system
The Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention(Director Ki-Suck Jung, KCDC) will jointly hold an international symposium with the World Health Organization(WHO) for the first time in Korea to discuss vaccine saf...
KCDC reveals living-donor liver transplant complication occurs on less than 2% and 0% mortality
It was reported the major complication rate after living-donor liver transplant surgery was less than 2% at the Korean Organ Transplantation Registry(KOTRY, Senior Researcher Kyu-Ri Ahn) study supported by the Korea C...
Obligation of adding ethics education in doctors’ refresher training program proposed
In order to strengthen moral and ethical responsibility on health care providers, the government will work on legalizing additional compulsory education.
Justice Party Rep. So-Ha Yoon representatively proposed the ‘P...
‘COPD’ mainly caused by smoking occurs the most for people over the 60s
The National Health Insurance Service(President Sang-Cheol Seong, NHIS) analyzed the national health insurance policy holders who visited medical institutes for ‘chronic obstructive pulmonary disease(COPD)’ for the pa...
Last year’s medical device manufacturing performance was KRW 5.6025 trillion, increased by 12%
The last year’s manufacturing performance of medical devices was KRW 5.6025 trillion increased by 12% compared to 2015. A type of medical device that was manufactured the most was dental implant with KRW 840.7 billion...
Which are outstanding tetravalent vaccines even for the young?
Disease treated the most with clinical trial drugs is respiratory disorder like lung cancer
Who will be the next Pharmaceutical Safety Bureau Director?
Celltrion completes clinical trials for Remsima SC for European approval
Sales listed pharmas made in the first half of the year
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