News About: Pharm. Affairs
Mission to target the mind of middle-aged women…severe competition in the market of menopausal symptoms
As the top companies have entered in the market, competition over menopausal symptom treatments is going to be severe. The size of the domestic menopausal symptom treatment market is worth of KRW 8 billion, mostly con...
Biosimilar market worth of KRW 63 trillion will be opened
It is expected that the biosimilar market will expand within several years due to patent expirations of original drugs. Currently, the international market size of the expired drugs reaches about KRW 63 trillion.
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The safety issue with the anti-inflammatory drug ‘Celecoxib’… what are doctors’ opinions?
A COX-2 selective nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug ‘Celecoxib’ has got in a safety issue again.
The celecoxib’scardiovascular safety issue has received attention again in the last September 2 when the National Ins...
Antipyretic-analgesic anti-inflammatory drugsarethe medicine that doctors prescribed the most… then, what is the second most?
The most prescribed insurance benefit drugs in the last year were antipyretic-analgesic anti-inflammatory drugsand antitussive expectorants.
The trend was shown in the result of classification of the top 10 remedial ...
Necessity of online pharmacies?... Uncommon movements of the business world
As the Korea Chamber of Commerce and Industry (hereinafter referring to KCCI) begun to argue on allowing online sales of safety household medicines, the industry is expected to be noisy. In other words, it is asking f...
Chains of pharmacies are seeking changes to the drug store
Olive Young, Watson, Boons, LOHB's and Aboutme, health& specialty shop sprung up everywhere, chain of pharmacies are seeking changes to the drug store.
They equipped with a variety of household goods and cosmetics wh...
How should pharmacists handle adulterated drug in pharmacy?
'A' multinational pharmaceutical company's process of disposing of adulterated drug became a problem in July. One pharmacist found broken one tablet inside the foil package of C antibiotic of respiratory disease and a...
Sales of vitamins in convenience store exceeded sales of vitamins in pharmacy
It was reported that sales of vitamins in convenience store exceeded sales of vitamins in pharmacy. The sales of GNC vitamin in the first half of this year which are sold in GS25 increased by 23.8% compared to the sec...
The number of pharmacy visitors at late night in last year was 14,375 people
According to data of late-night pharmacy operation, the number of pharmacy visitors at late night in last year was 14,375 people, with a daily average of 48 people. The number of telephone consultation was 1,722 cases...
Canesten was temporarily out of stock faster than in previous years because of heat and humidity
On June 3, according to the Bayer, OTC drug Canesten cream 100g(70 won/1g) which is covered by insurance and OTC drug Canesten powder 30g which is not covered by insurance have been temporarily out of stock.
Bayer an...
