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Glivec’s final price due June 8
The Ministry for Health, Welfare and Family Affair health insurance committee said it will decide on the final price of Glivec on June 8 by reviewing the proposals made by the National Health Insurance Corporation (NH...
Green Cross, LegoChem Bioscience expand cooperation
Cooperation between Green Cross Corporation and LegoChem Bioscience, a local biopharmaceutical firm, is picking up, with efforts being made to step up joint collaboration in the areas of development and commercializat...
Rep. Won picked new vice floor leader
Rep. Won Hee-mok, including Rep. Jung Mi-kyung, was recently selected as one of 13 vice floor leaders of the governing Grand National Party (GNP).
A pharmacist-turned Won is the member of the National Assembly’s H...
Dong-A to expand share in mouthwashes market
Dong-A Pharm said on June 4 it has launched a series of mouthwash products containing cetylpyridinium chloride (CPC) plus sodium fluorinate as part of efforts to strengthen its presence in the growing dental care mark...
KFDA mulls leniency on 120 pharmaceutical firms
The Korea Food and Drug Administration is unlikely to filed a complaint against 120 drugmakers who produced 122 drugs and medical goods confirmed to have used talc contaminated with asbestos last April.
In a briefi...
10 leading drugmakers pledge joint action against rebate
The domestic major pharmaceutical firms pledged on June 4 to root out the so-called rebate, according to pharmaceutical sources.
The meeting between presidents of ten pharmaceutical firms took place after Auh June-...
Doctors should be blamed for illegal rebate
Korean doctors have been immune from crackdowns on shady deals between pharmaceutical companies and hospitals ― but they are the real beneficiaries of the illegal "rebate" practices, it has been claimed.
Not a sing...
Pharmaceutical firms urged to nurture human resources management
Pharmaceutical company will need to re-establish human resources management instead of more sales growth, as rebate and other irregular trading activities have tainted the drugmakers’ image in the recent months, accor...
Park named Johnson & Johnson North Asia chief
Johnson & Johnson Medical Korea announced that Park Se-yeol, incumbent president of the company, was named as North East leader of Johnson & Johnson effective June 1.
Park will be responsible for medical business a...
KPMA president caught bribing doctors
Auh June-sun, president of the Korea Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association and chairman of Ahngook Pharm, is under fire for having provided illegal kickbacks to doctors in exchange for prescribing his products.
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