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The development of new drugs and medical devices has been attributed to constant innovation, and the medical device industry in particular is growing faster than the drug industry. The medical...
Clinical trials are the flower of clinical research. Recently such clinical trials occur increasingly on a global scale. Korea is also one of the countries newly involved in global clinical...
Headache is a common symptom, often associated with disability, but rarely life threatening. However, even disabling migraine is under-diagnosed and under-treated. There are no diagnostic tests for migraine or tension-type...
Based on recently developed biotechnology, many new drugs have been developed for improving patient treatment outcomes. To develop novel drugs, proper clinical trials are essential. As clinical trials involve humans...
Drug development is a lengthy, expensive, and complex process, and clinical development is the longest and the most expensive stage of drug development. To obtain market authorization of a new...
Minimally invasive surgery and laparoscopic surgery have been used for more than 30 years, and are now popular even for some malignant diseases. There have been two developments in technology;...
The number of clinical trials sponsored by global pharmaceutical companies performed in countries other than the U.S. and Western Europe has been steadily increasing over the past decade. Among those...
Allergic rhinitis (AR) is a global health problem affecting at least 10 to 25% of the population, and is a chronic respiratory illness that affects quality of life, productivity, and...
Chronic pain is associated with disabling physical and emotional symptoms. Patients with chronic pain utilize more health services, have an impaired sense of well-being and frequently experience anxiety or depression....
The reported failure rates in phase 2A and 2B for drugs completing phase 1 and proof of concept (POC) and those in phase 3 for drugs completing phase 2B are...