Korea

HepaHope Korea Subsidiary VASKA Introduces Green Chemicals to U.S. Commercial Laundry Industry

SEOUL, South Korea, July 20 /PRNewswire/ -- HepaHope Korea (KOSDAQ 039350) is pleased to announce that its wholly owned subsidiary, VASKA, a Berkeley-based producer of green, botanically-based laundry care products for the commercial, institutional, and consumer markets, has succ...

Korea Health Industry Development Institute, Be Ready for attracting Patients in States (Hold Korea Global Healthcare Conference with CKMP)

Korea Health Industry Development Institute (President Kim, Bup-Wan, KHIDI) and Council for Korea Medicine Overseas Promotion (President Sung, Sangchul, CKMP) will hold Korea Global Healthcare Conference to make promotion and exposure to attract patients in U.S. from July 16 to 18, 2009 in New Yo...

GfK Asia Expands into Korea Optics Industry Partnership Network

SINGAPORE, June 22 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- 11th of June 2009, marks yet another important new beginning for GfK Asia as well as the Optical industry in Korea. Recognizing the importance to have a neutral party measuring the trends and performance of the optical market in Korea, the Korean Optomet...

Echo Therapeutics and Handok Pharmaceuticals Sign South Korea License for Needle-free Symphony(TM) Transdermal Continuous Glucose Monitoring System

FRANKLIN, Mass., June 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Echo Therapeutics, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: ECTE) announced today that it has signed a license agreement with Handok Pharmaceuticals Co., Ltd. ("Handok"), the largest diabetes care-focused pharmaceutical company in South Korea, under which Echo g...

Ajou University Hospital Becomes First in Korea to Treat Using RapidArc(TM) Radiotherapy Technology from Varian Medical Systems

SUWON, Korea, May 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --Korea's leading university hospital has begun treatments using a new, faster form of radiotherapy that potentially enables doctors to improve outcomes while extending modern care to more patients. A 17-year-old female with cancer in her salivary gland w...

China Sky One Medical, Inc. Exports Sumei Slim Patch to South Korea and Sudan

HARBIN, China, Feb. 25 /PRNewswire-Asia-FirstCall/ -- China Sky One Medical, Inc. ("China Sky One Medical" or "the Company") (Nasdaq: CSKI ), a leading fully integrated pharmaceutical company producing over-the-counter drugs in the People's Republic of China ("PRC"), today announced that its...

KMD's CHA Hospital, Korea Wins 2008 AIA National Healthcare Award

SAN FRANCISCO, July 28 /PRNewswire/ -- The innovative CHA Women's and Children's Hospital in Seoul, Korea, has been selected as one of only four projects worldwide to win the 2008, prestigious American Institute of Architects (AIA) National Healthcare Design Award. It is one of the more than 1...

Labopharm's Once-Daily Tramadol Approved in South Korea and Australia

- Company Enters Into Marketing Partnership for Once-Daily Tramadol for Turkey - LAVAL, QC, Feb. 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - Labopharm Inc. (TSX: DDS; NASDAQ: DDSS) today announced that its once-daily tramadol product has received regulatory approval from the Kor...

Anpath Group, Inc. Increases Market Share in Korea

MOORESVILLE, N.C., May 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Anpath Group, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: ANPG), reported today that its wholly-owned subsidiary, EnviroSystems, Inc. (ESI) has increased its presence in the Korean market. The Company announced that orders from Korea for its EnviroTru(R) Disi...

ADVENTRX Grants Exclusive Rights to ANX-514 in South Korea

SAN DIEGO, March 25 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- ADVENTRX Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NYSE Amex: ANX ) announced today that it has granted Shin Poong Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. (SEO: 019170.KS) exclusive rights in South Korea to make, use and sell ANX-514 (docetaxel emulsion), one of its two lead product ...

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Korea in Medical Technology

TissueGene Announces Regulatory Allowance to Initiate Phase IIa Study of TG-C in South Korea for Osteoarthritis of the Knee

ROCKVILLE, Md., March 2 /PRNewswire/ -- TissueGene, Inc. announced today that its South Korean licensing partner Kolon Life Science, Inc. (KLS) has received regulatory allowance from the Korea Food and Drug Administration (KFDA) to initiate a Phase IIa clinical trial of TissueGene-C (TG-C) in pati...

Anesiva Announces South Korea FDA Approval of Adlea(TM) Investigational New Drug Application

SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., June 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Anesiva, Inc. (Nasdaq: ANSV ) today announced that the South Korea Food and Drug Administration has approved Anesiva's investigational new drug application for Adlea(TM), the company's long-acting, site specific, non-opioid drug ca...

Access Licenses ProLindac(TM) and MuGard(TM) to JCOM Ltd, an Affiliate of DONG-A Pharmaceuticals in Korea

Transaction Value in Excess of $10 Million; Access Gains Second Source Manufacturing and Significant Clinical Trial Support DALLAS, and SEOUL, South Korea, Feb. 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Access Pharmaceuticals, Inc . (OTC Bulletin Board: ACCP) and JCOM Ltd , an affiliate of DONG...

Cylex Announces Plan for Multi-Center Trial of ImmuKnow(R) Assay in South Korea

Seven Korean medical centers to collaborate on studies of immunosuppression in kidney transplant patients and role of cell-mediated immunity COLUMBIA, Md., Aug. 28 /PRNewswire/ -- "Cylex, Inc., in association with our Korean distributor, Sun Woo Biotech, is delighted to be able to announce ou...

Access Pharmaceuticals Provides Update on ProLindac Clinical Development Program

...n addition, Access is meeting with its Korean partner, JCOM of Seoul, South korea to finalize development plans in that territory. Access believes that thre...opinion leaders in Korea, and hope to get the combination trials started in korea as soon as reasonably possible." Access intends to design all clinic...

Pharmasset Voluntarily Halts Clinical Studies with Clevudine in Hepatitis B Infected Patients

...to moderate myopathy, or muscle weakness associated with creatine kinase elevations, were reported in the QUASH studies, many of the patients in South korea have had longer exposures to clevudine than patients in the QUASH studies and have reported more serious myopathy than have patients in the Pharmasset...

Pharmasset Initiates First Time in Human Study of PSI-7851 for the Treatment of Hepatitis C (HCV)

...a, Europe, Japan and Taiwan. Clevudine is already approved for HBV in South korea and the Philippines. It is marketed in korea by Bukwang Pharmaceuticals under the brand name Levovir. R7128, an oral tre...

Spectral presents data on the clinical utility of EAA(TM) at 13th Annual Critical Care for Endotoxemia conference in Japan

...irst reported experience from India also showed positive results. "This meeting attracts critical care physicians from many parts of Asia, including korea and India. Many of the presentations at this important conference use data collected with Spectral's EAA(TM) and highlight the value of our product, b...

Trius Completes Enrollment in Phase 2 Clinical Trial Evaluating Torezolid (TR-701) in Patients With Complicated Skin and Skin Structure Infections

...ncluding those resistant to Zyvox(R), the only marketed antibacterial drug of the oxazolidinone class. Trius has licensed worldwide rights outside of korea to torezolid from Dong-A Pharmaceuticals. Trius' pipeline includes two preclinical programs with lead candidates being developed to treat serious inf...

Jennerex Treats First Patients in Phase 2 JX-594 Trial for Liver Cancer

...r of Jennerex. "We have already treated four patients with JX-594 in korea and are anxious to see the efficacy of JX-594 in these late stage liver can...Cross will become the only seasonal influenza vaccine manufacturer in South korea and also is developing avian influenza vaccine. In its vaccine business, Gr...

Korea in Biological News

Springer partners with Botanical Society of Korea

Starting in February 2009, Springer will publish the Journal of Plant Biology , the official journal of the Botanical Society of Korea. The journal first appeared in 1958 and was published until 1994 under the title Korean Journal of Botany. International in scope and broad in coverage, the Jo...

e-SMART Technologies Continues Delivery of Its New Super SMART Card in South Korea

NEW YORK and SEOUL, South Korea, Feb. 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- e-SMART(R) Technologies, Inc., (Pink Sheets: ESMT); with its parent company IVI Smart Technologies, Inc., ("e-SMART"(R) or the "Company") is pleased to announce that it has signed a contract to deliver its newest Super SMART Ca...

Springer increases publishing activities in South Korea

Springer, one of the worlds leading STM publishers, has signed publishing agreements with eight South Korean scientific societies during the past half year. With this move, Springer will be the publisher of a representative selection of Korean society journals and confirms its long tradition of d...

AGU journal highlights -- Aug. 6, 2009

...xide emissions from the ocean: A reassessment using basin-wide observations in the Atlantic Authors: T. S. Rhee: Center of Polar Climate Science, korea Polar Research Institute, Incheon, Korea; A. J. Kettle: Biogeochemistry Department, Max Plank Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany; Now at Depar...

'Bycatch' whaling a growing threat to coastal whales

... occasionally killed in entanglements with fishing nets and the deaths of large whales are reported by most member nations of the IWC. Japan and South korea are the only countries that allow the commercial sale of products killed as "incidental bycatch." The sheer number of whales represented by whale-meat...

Caffeic acid inhibits colitis in a mouse model -- is a drug-metabolizing gene crucial?

...ng Ye, a graduate student in Toxicology, along with Microbiology graduate students Zhiping Liu and Abigail Henderson, Visiting Scientist Kwangwon Lee, korea University, Dr. Michael Wannemuehler, Veterinary Microbiology, Dr. Jesse Hostetter, a veterinary pathologist, and Dr. Suzanne Hendrich, Toxicologist a...

New study: Home energy savings are made in the shade

... the trees also sequestered an equivalent amount of carbon on top of that. So theres a double benefit. Utility companies from as far away as South korea and South Africa have contacted the team about expanding the study, which was limited to a single season in a single city. It would be really inter...

CSHL-led team identifies key decision-point at which cells with broken DNA repair themselves or die

...mage-repair signaling cascade. The Tonks-Allis collaboration, along with contributions from Seung Jun Kim, Ph.D., a protein crystallographer from the korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology, led to the assembly of a puzzle from pieces whose precise relation was not previously understood. ...

A quarter of the world's population depends on degrading land

..., Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Sierra Leone, Zambia and the most affected (95 per cent degrading) Swaziland; in Asia, Myanmar, Malaysia, Thailand, Laos, korea and Indonesia. In terms of the rural population affected, the greatest numbers are in China, with nearly half a billion, India, Indonesia, Bangladesh ...

National and international doctoral training

...e are other new International Research Training Groups that build upon exist-ing cooperation arrangements with the USA, Japan, Russia, Spain and South korea within this funding programme. The new Research Training Groups offer large numbers of doctoral researchers the opportu-nity to obtain a doctorate ...

Korea in Biological Technology

GeoPharma Adds India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and South Korea as New Distribution Channels for Mucotrol(TM)

LARGO, Fla., July 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- GeoPharma, Inc. (Nasdaq: GORX) (the "Company") announced today the expansion of the distribution agreement between the Company and Cura Pharmaceutical Co. (Cura). The original agreement signed between Cura and GeoPharma provided Cura the exclusive...

BSP Signs Agreement With CMP Trading for Distribution of HyperQ(TM) Stress System, for Early Detection of Ischemic Heart Disease, in South Korea

CMP Will Purchase at Least 227 HyperQ(TM) Systems During the Term of the Agreement TEL AVIV, Israel, November 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- BSP (Biological Signal Processing Ltd.) ( http://www.bsp.co.il/ ), an Israeli company that develops and markets innovative sy...

Battelle Collaborating With Korean Partners to Advance Energy Efficiency and Health and Life Sciences Initiatives in Korea

COLUMBUS, Ohio, May 6 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Developing a strong pharmaceutical industry is a key issue in Korea. So much so, that Battelle-Korea, Battelle, Chuncheon City, Gangwon Province and YuYu Inc., intend to collaborate and address the issue. A Korean corporation named International...

Martek Signs DHA/ARA License and Supply Agreement With IlDong Foodis for Infant Formula in South Korea

COLUMBIA, Md., Dec. 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Martek Biosciences Corporation announced today that it has entered into a multi-year DHA and ARA license and supply agreement for infant formula with IlDong Foodis, an affiliated company of IlDong Pharmaceutical. Under the terms of the agreement...

Vi typhoid vaccine proves highly effective in young children

... SEOUL, korea -- A new study has found that a currently available yet underused vaccine against typhoid fever is highly effective in young children and protects unv...

Essilor : First Half 2009 Revenue

...ted States, while operations in Canada have begun to improve. Operations in the Asia-Pacific region had a good first-half, with India and South korea reporting an excellent performance, followed by China and most of the ASEAN countries. Growth was also strong in Australia, particularly in the indepe...

Palkion Selects Novel Oral Development Candidate for the Treatment of Anemia

...tructure-based novel scaffold/lead design, lead optimization and candidate selection with ADMET capability. CrystalGenomics is headquartered in Seoul, korea and its subsidiary, CG Pharmaceuticals Inc. is located in Emeryville, CA for US and EU clinical management. The company has several strategic alliance...

Elsevier Releases Results of Alternative Energy Research Leadership Study Identifying Top 25 Institutions Worldwide

...t Urbana-Champaign United States 61 korea Institute of Science and Technology korea 54 University of Science and Tech...s 79 44 56% So. korea 76 0% Ita...

YM BIOSCIENCES REPORTS DAIICHI-SANKYO ENROLLS FIRST PATIENTS IN PHASE II, FIRST-LINE LUNG CANCER TRIAL WITH NIMOTUZUMAB

...om their indiscriminant targeting of normal healthy tissues in addition to their binding to tumor." YM and its licensee Kuhnil Pharmaceutical Co. in korea recently collaborated on a Phase I trial treating patients with palliative radiotherapy for NSCLC. The data from the Canadian arm of the trial were pr...

Photos: FDA Approves 12-Month Labeling Update for EVOLENCE(R) Collagen-Based Facial Filler

...month duration labeling. While relatively new to the United States, EVOLENCE(R) has been approved in Canada, Western and Eastern Europe, Israel, South korea and Russia since 2004/2005 and has been cleared for 12-month duration in those countries. "Physicians can now offer patients an all-natural derma...

Korea in Biological Definition

Avian influenza

...rfaced in Vietnam and Thailand 's poultry industry, and within weeks spread to ten countries and regions in Asia , including Indonesia , South korea , Japan and mainland China . Intensive efforts were undertaken to slaughter chickens , ducks and geese (over 40 million chickens alone were s...

Cloning

... Nicky , 2004, was the first cat cloned for commercial reasons mice : over a dozen as of 2002 rabbit : (March-April, 2003) in France and North korea independently. Human -rabbit hybrid in China (August, 2003) mule : Idaho Gem (male, May 2003) and Utah Pioneer (male, June 2003) deer : De...

Culture

...a Indonesia Israel Italy Japan korea North korea South korea Macedonia Mexico Netherlands...

Stem cell

... little research potential. Researchers in South korea announced in November 2004 that they had success...in comparison with other countries, such as South korea , which successfully cloned human embryos in early...wever, the leading stem cell researchers in South korea have a developed a stem cell bank that only hold...

Korea in Biological Dictionary

Lineage

...asy massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) released in 1998 by the South Korean computer game developer NCsoft. It is most popular in korea and is available in Chinese, Japanese, and English language versions. The game was... Welcome to the official Facebook Page of Lineage 2. Get exc...

Leaflets

...p to and during the invasion phase of Operation Iraqi Freedom Watch leaflets videos from all over the internet ... 20090415-Balloon Drop to North korea with Leaflets and Cash ... BNP Leaflets Blaming Muslims Excused by ... Compare Cheap Prices for Leaflets And Flyers at NexTag.com. Find Barga...