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44 сюжетовChina medical insurance pooled funds take in 2.07 trillion yuan in Jan-Aug
China's National Healthcare Security Administration released data showing that in January to August 2026 the basic medical insurance (including maternity insurance) pooled funds took in 2.072772 trillion yuan and spent 1.550414 trillion yua…
Celltrion's Avtozma wins FDA nod for pediatric COVID-19 use in US
Celltrion said the US Food and Drug Administration granted an additional approval for its Avtozma (tocilizumab) intravenous formulation to treat COVID-19 in patients aged 2 and older. The approval widens the drug's COVID-19 indication from …
Thailand flood death toll reaches 60; Bangkok and 27 provinces affected
Thailand's Interior Ministry disaster agency said on Oct 7 that flooding has killed 60 people and affected more than 1.48 million households, or 4.19 million people. The country has seen repeated heavy rain and widespread flooding since Sep…
South Korea study links severe gestational diabetes to higher diabetes risk in children
South Korea's National Institute of Health said children of mothers who had gestational diabetes are more likely to develop diabetes, with the risk rising to 4.3 times for type 2 diabetes among children of mothers who needed insulin during …
One worker injured in rock collapse at Vostochny mine in Russia's Primorye
A rock collapse at the Vostochny mine in Primorsky Krai injured one worker and caused no deaths. Twenty-two people were in the shaft at the time; rescuers brought the injured miner to the surface, and TASS reported the workers left the shaf…
SUV falls into Daegu reservoir; one occupant found dead, police check for others
An SUV fell into the Naegwanji reservoir in Daeheung-dong, Suseong-gu, Daegu at about 04:17 on 7 October. Rescue teams found the vehicle and recovered the body of a woman believed to be in her 50s at about 08:22; she was already dead. Polic…
WHO and Russia say no further plague infections after Siberian lab worker's death
A female worker at the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Institute of Siberia and the Far East died last week from pneumonia of undetermined origin, according to Russian authorities and the WHO. Russia's Rospotrebnadzor said 60% of the identified contact…
Кения подтвердила первую смерть от Эболы после прибытия пациента из Конго через Уганду
Министерство здравоохранения Кении во вторник подтвердило первый в стране завозной случай Эболы: гражданин Кении, прибывший из Демократической Республики Конго через Уганду, проходил лечение в больнице Найроби и скончался поздно вечером в п…
Hoban Construction develops AI design tech to auto-apply per-unit buyer options
Hoban Construction said it developed AI-based design technology that automatically reflects apartment buyers’ option contract choices in each unit’s building information model (BIM). The technology was developed jointly with building and in…
Guangxi ship flash explosion in Guigang kills 1, two missing
A moored engineering vessel on the Yujiang River in Guigang, Guangxi, suffered a flash explosion during painting work at about 17:15 on 6 October, killing one person and leaving two missing, with two more lightly injured. The Gangnan Distri…
GC Cell starts Phase 1b trial of GCC2005 in T-cell lymphoma, first patient dosed
GC Cell said on Oct 7 that its drug candidate GCC2005 (CD5 CAR-NK), a cell therapy for T-cell lymphoma, has entered a Phase 1b trial and that the first subject has been dosed. The company completed the dose-escalation stage of Phase 1a and …
Nanya Technology reportedly tells customers of another DRAM contract price rise, up to 20%
Taiwan memory maker Nanya Technology has reportedly notified customers of a further increase in DRAM contract prices, by as much as 20%, according to Taiwan's Economic Daily News as cited by Chinese outlets. Nanya declined to comment on cus…
Woman, 55, who collapsed on Vietnam trip donates organs to three
A 55-year-old South Korean woman, Ku Jin-hui, collapsed with a brain hemorrhage while traveling in Vietnam with her daughter on Sept. 12 and was later declared brain dead. The Korea Organ and Tissue Donation Agency said she donated her live…
Seoul pharma and diagnostics stocks jump on report of Russian plague lab researcher’s death
A researcher at a plague research institute in Irkutsk, Russia, died on Oct 2 after being hospitalised with severe pneumonia on Sept 29, and Russian media reports of a broken pathogen vial raised the possibility of plague infection, though …
Magnitude 5.6 earthquake felt in Kamchatka; no tsunami threat declared
A magnitude 5.6 earthquake struck in Avacha Bay off the southeastern coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula on Wednesday, according to the Kamchatka branch of the Unified Geophysical Service of the Russian Academy of Sciences, as reported by Inte…
HLB says EMA begins main review of bile duct cancer drug lirafugratinib
HLB’s US subsidiary Eleba Therapeutics said the European Medicines Agency has begun the main review of its marketing authorisation application for the bile duct cancer drug lirafugratinib. Asia Economy reported the European filing was made …
Lotte Himart joins state project to develop humanoid logistics robots
Lotte Himart and Lotte Global Logistics said they will take part as demand companies in a state-funded project to develop industry-specialised humanoid robots and reduce reliance on foreign robots and AI models. Robot maker Yujin Robot lead…
Samsung Medical Center debuts Korea's first dual energy ablation for atrial fibrillation
Samsung Medical Center said it carried out South Korea's first dual energy ablation (DEA) for atrial fibrillation, a procedure that uses one catheter to deliver either pulsed field ablation or radiofrequency ablation. The hospital said phys…
Osaka apartment fire kills one man, second resident hospitalised
A fire broke out around 18:15 on 6 October in a three-storey building in Nakamoto, Higashinari Ward, Osaka City, burning about 20 square metres of a first-floor room. One man died and a second man, a resident of the second floor, was taken …
Russia's industry ministry says Atarax supplies stable after pharmacy shortage reports
Russia's Ministry of Industry and Trade said «Atarax» and other hydroxyzine-based medicines are being regularly and stably put into circulation, after reports on Telegram channels that the drug could not be bought in most large pharmacies i…