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MOL to enforce national qualification for medical device technicians.
Taking effect from the next year all technicians in the medical, industrial and medical electronic industries shall be qualified under the national licence issued by the Ministry of Labor (MOL).
The MOL said on Jul...
7 local hospitals trying phase III clinical studies for Sutent.
Pfizer planned a phase III clinical study of Sutent (sunitinib malate) for the metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC) patients to evaluate its safety and efficacy in combination with the conventional chemotherapy.
Ear...
Novatis Inc to sponsor Asia-Pacific symposium for oncology
Novarits Korea announced recently that its Swiss-based headquarters will be a sponsor for the 2007 Asia-Pacific Summit for Oncology, a major international event annually by Novartis Inc’s Oncology Division.
This ye...
Two doctors named BMS Korea’s medical directors
Recently, BMS Korea appointed two doctors, Lee Young-sook and Chung Young-yeon, as medical director and medical advisor, respectively, to beef up its marketing activity of Baraclude (entecavir), an antiviral agent for...
Survey on target treatment for lung cancer
Four out of 10 doctors said a target agent for lung cancer would replace the conventional chemotherapeutic agents within the next five years, according to a recent survey conducted by AstraZeneca Korea (AZ Korea) whic...
7 of 10 diabetic patients evading insulin therapy.
A survey conducted by a diabetic portal site "www.dang119.com" from April 1 to 20 compiled the data from the total 506 patients and found that 7 of 10 diabetic patients were not complying to the physician's recommenda...
J&J Korea to launch third generation of new incontinence therapy. TVT SECUR system.
A 3rd generation of new incontinence therapy, called TVT Secur system seems to be launched to the Korean market in July.
Johnson and Johnson Korea announced that the TVT Secur System for the treatment of urinary in...
Simvicort Smart as most ideal asthma therapy.AstraZeneca Korea (AZ Korea) took a symposium at Imperial Palace hotel on June 1 during the Spring conference of the Korea Society of Asthma and Allergy under the theme of "New ...
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Survey on asthmatic children and patterns of treatments.
Most of children with asthma experienced frequent awakes at night due to a nocturnal cough and thereby serious sleep interruptions, and the younger children got more serious nocturnal coughs.
The survey was conduc...
2007 GARD general meeting in Seoul
The second general meeting of The Global Alliance against Chronic Respiratory Diseases (GARD), part of the World Health Organization's global work to prevent and control chronic diseases, will be hosted by the Korean ...
