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Pharmacies alert over paparazzi

The government has provided financial incentives to people who uncover businesses violating the rules on correctly identifying the country of origin of meat. But it is feared the plan could have an unintended side eff...

Plan to readjust dispensing charge provokes complaint

The government's plan to reformulate the dispensing charges by 25 sectors has provoked criticism from pharmacists who run community pharmacies. The Ministry of Health and Welfare said that it will increase the disp...

Pharmacists to run more 24-hour pharmacies

The Korean Pharmaceutical Association (KPA) said it plans to designate more pharmacies that will open for 24 hours a day in each district nationwide. The KPA noted that the plan is designed to help consumers buy o...

Elderly people demand aspirins in convenience stores

Older people demanded Tuesday the National Assembly pass a revision bill to allow convenience stores and supermarkets to sell over-the-counter medicines, which discouraged pharmacists who kept alert over a variety of ...

Credit card firms urged to cut pharmacy fee

The Korean Pharmaceutical Association has argued that they have been shouldering losses due to the high fees when customers settle drug transactions with credit cards. Pharmacy owners currently pay 2.5 percent to 2...

Election backlash foreseeable over revision of pharmaceutical affairs law

The Korean Pharmaceutical Association is afraid that the Grand National Party and Chong Wae Dae might crank up efforts to pass a bill from the National Assembly to make cold medicines and fever reducers available at s...

TV commercial ads for Strepsils lozenges gain popularity

A pharmacy in Seoul has a growing number of patients a day who come to look for Strepsils, a line of lozenges to relieve sore throat manufactured by Reckitt Benckiser in Nottingham, United Kingdom. “The recent TV ...

Drug dispensing fee to rise 2.6%

The National Health Insurance said Monday it will raise the one-day pharmacy dispensing fee by 2.6 percent beginning next year. Under the government's plan, a patient must pay an additional 90 won per one-day dispensi...

Pharmacists, NHIC fail to narrow gap over 2012 dispensing charges

The National Health Insurance Corp. aims to narrow differences over next year’s pharmacy dispensing fee and start bargaining in earnest with the Korean Pharmaceutical Association during a fourth round of talks Friday,...

Pharmacists concern over public antipathy

Pharmacists are perplexed by growing discontent from consumers as a bill aiming to make cold medicines and analgesics available at supermarkets and convenience stores faces strong resistance from lawmakers. Accord...

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