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20 noticiasChina 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 …
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 …
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…
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 …
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…
El Ministerio de Industria de Rusia afirma que el suministro de Atarax es estable tras los informes de escasez en farmacias
El Ministerio de Industria y Comercio de Rusia declaró que «Atarax» y otros medicamentos a base de hidroxicina se ponen en circulación de forma regular y estable, después de que se informara en canales de Telegram que el fármaco no se podía…
Trump says Putin call scheduled soon on suspected Siberia plague case
President Donald Trump said Tuesday he has a call scheduled “very soon” with Russian President Vladimir Putin to discuss a suspected plague case. The case centres on Daria Shipilova, a 28-year-old lab technician who died Friday in a hospita…
ASUS unveils Zenbook 14 UX3480 line with Intel, AMD or Qualcomm chips
ASUS announced the Zenbook 14 UX3480 series, a 14-inch laptop line that lets buyers choose between Intel Core Ultra series 3, AMD Ryzen AI 300 and Qualcomm Snapdragon X processors. PC Watch reported the models go on sale in Japan from Octob…
US says it is in contact with Russia over suspected plague death in Siberia
A US State Department official said Washington has been in contact with the Russian government since October 2 over the death of a woman who worked at a plague-control research institute in Russia's Irkutsk Oblast. The official did not give…
Apple and LG co-develop smart home devices including doorbell, lock and thermostat
Bloomberg reports that Apple and LG have co-developed a line of smart home devices, including a video doorbell, thermostat, smart deadbolt lock, indoor and outdoor security cameras and a floodlight camera. The products are expected to carry…
Citizen Medical Lecture wins newspaper association's regional contribution grand prize
The Japan Newspaper Association selected the “Citizen Medical Lecture” run by Nishi-Nippon Shimbun Area Group Kitafukuoka for its 2026 Regional Contribution Grand Prize. Eleven newspaper sales outlets have held the lectures with doctors as …
Putin opens first battery cluster complex, urges localization in Russia
Russian President Vladimir Putin said at the opening of the first complex in a Moscow electric battery production cluster that Russia must increase battery output, improve technology and raise localization, including by developing mineral d…
RFK Jr.'s embrace of AI draws criticism from MAHA allies and medical experts
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told a MAHA summit that artificial intelligence would free Americans from “medical tyranny” by letting them “fact check their own medical advice.” Some prominent MAHA voices criticized him for cozying …
Kremlin: investigation under way after Irkutsk plague lab leak killed researcher
A female researcher at a plague control research institute in Irkutsk, Siberia, broke a test tube containing plague pathogen on Sept. 25, was hospitalised with severe pneumonia symptoms on Sept. 29 and died overnight on Oct. 1–2. Kremlin sp…