News About: Pharm. Affairs
Pharmacies, convenient stores to face off over supplements
Competition is expected to heat up between convenient stores and pharmacists as the Korea Food and Drug Administration (KFDA) plans to allow 24-hour convenient stores to sell relatively safely health supplement produc...
Dispute rages over micro credit card fee
The Credit Finance Association of Korea (CFAK) Thursday unveiled its plan to reduce the credit card transaction fee from the current 2.68 percent to 1.88 percent, on Korean merchants generating 10 million won to 100 m...
Pharmacists worry about smartphone based prescription service worry
Smart phones have opened up whole new possibilities, and there is an application ready to assist users every need, including smartphone based prescription service.
According to a mobile vendor, consumers are able t...
Pharmacists at a loss over cold medicine related side effects
A pharmacy has been suffering from accusations of a poor drug guidance claimed by a woman.
A Busan woman who lost her eyesight after taking cold medicine has filed a compensation lawsuit against the government, the...
Uncertainty shrouds pharmacies in large retail stores
Sales of pharmacies located in large retail supermarkets are likely to suffer further setbacks in the coming months as more than 100 large supermarkets closed on Sunday in accordance with a new law aimed at protecting...
E-Mart to open new drugstore
E-Mart, the country’s largest supermarket chain, is looking to tap into the local drugstore market, where the number of large retail groups is rapidly increasing.
E-mart officials said Monday it will open its first...
Three pharmaceutical firms urged to meet drug compensation program
The Korean Pharmaceutical Association called for three drug firms – GlaxoSmithKline, Hwari and Alfa – to come up with their drug compensation plan.
In a meeting on Thursday, the KPA affirmed its position to have ph...
Drugstore ‘Pandora’ to open in BusanMegamart, an affiliated company of Korea’s leading food maker Noshim, said yesterday it will open the third drugstore ‘Pandora.’ in Semeon Street in Busan from April 19, as Seme...
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Pharmaceutical camp get relieved over results of Wednesday’s general elections
The local pharmaceutical community is somewhat relieved as two female pharmacists won the parliamentary elections Wednesday, although several candidates only run in the elections.
The Unified Progressive Party (UPP...
KNJC’s Nosno spray sales brisk in pharmacy market
KNJC Korea saw its pharmacy sales of Nosno spray, anti-snoring nasal spray, jump this year on the back of the successive approvals from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the Korea Food and Food and Administrat...
