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Domestic makers struggling to cope with sluggish OTC sales via price increase
Local pharmaceutical manufacturers are poised to increase the prices of their flagship products in a bid to achieve their sales target this year, as rising global prices of crops, oil and other raw materials are weigh...
Insurance price of Sprycel to be determined in mid-April
The insurance coordination meeting aimed at determining the prices of Sprycel (dasatinib), BMS's leukemia medicine, will convene in the middle of next month, according to the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Family Aff...
Screening fees for application of new drugs to rise from June
The screening fees relating to application of new drugs will increase from this June, according to the Korea Food and Drug Administration.
Under the plan, the fees for the review of specification and analytical met...
Chong Kun Dang's Prigrel to benefit from health insurance
The Health Insurance Review & Assessment Service said on March 21 that two generic drugs of Plavix (clopidogrel bisulfate) Chong Kun Dang Pharmaceutical's Prigrel and Daewoong Pharm's Vixgrel - will be eligible for h...
LG conducts Phase II trials for new antidiabetic agent
LG Life Sciences says it has conducted Phase II trials of its new dipeptidyl peptidase IV (LC15-0444) for the treatment of type II diabetes.
Results of Phase I trial in 90 diabetic patients, conducted in Seoul Nati...
Sprycel price remains controversial
The dispute over the insurance price of Sprycel, anticancer, is expected to be going on since a group of leukemia patients demanded more reasonable price.
"We don't think there are any acceptable reasons for BMS K...
Zuellig Korea's poor logistic system triggers debate
Pharmaceutical business sources say that the overall delivery system of Zuellig Korea should be investigated as freeze-required medicines have been distributed along with other general medicinal products.
So far, Z...
767 expensive insurance medicines released
The Health Insurance Review Agency has recently announced a list of 767 expensive medicines in the second quarter of this year, up 26 items compared with 741 items in the first quarter.
The list includes MSD's Cozz...
Pharmacy colleges to adopt admission tests
Universities have established their basic plan for admission tests for pharmacy college hopefuls before the nation introduces the new six-year pharmacy school system in 2009
Pharmacy colleges will evaluate the scho...
Dong-A gears up for localization in the PhilippinesDong-A Pharmaceutical Co. is putting more and more efforts into localization in a bold step to raise sales of a renowned brand Bacchus in the Philippines soft drink markets.
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