News About: Pharm. Affairs
National rally again the emergency household medicine extension on 17 December
The Korea Pharmaceutical Association has the emergency confrontational condition to response to the government’s extension of the convenient store medicine list, and will start the national rally from the coming 17th....
“For the manufacturing manager’s absence, a pharmacist must take over the duties”
When it comes to a revision bill to the Pharmaceutical Affairs Law which clarified the acting person for the absence of a pharmaceutical manufacturing manager, an opinion was recently suggested that the revision bill ...
Health care industry makes USD 11.7 billion exports this year, USD 2.7 billion only with drugs
While exports in the health care industry by this 3rd quarter reached USD 11.7 billion, drug exports were recorded at USD 2.7 billion. The pharmaceutical industry is expected to achieve USD 3.59 billion exports at the...
Pharmas manufacturing national essential medicines will preferentially treated at drug price negotiation
Pharmaceutical companies which manufacture drugs that are essential for the national policies, but are in a difficult situation due to poor playability, are expected to be preferentially treated, like at drug price ne...
No. of days a pharmacy can sell ETC drugs is decreased to 3 days
In the areas excepted from the separation of drug prescribing and dispensing, the number of days a pharmacy can sell ETC drugs without doctors or dentists’ prescription will be reduced from 5 days to 3 days.
If a pha...
KPA had no ‘strategy’ over adjustment of emergency household medicines
In order to interrupt the extension of the convenient store medicine list, a chairman of policy at the Korean Pharmaceutical Association(KPA) injured oneself at a meeting.
Part of the association sympathized and resp...
President Chan-Hwi Cho, “I’ll turn the issue around”
“The pharmacists’ society got a step left for the extension of the convenient store drug list. However, I’ll turn this around.”
Korean Pharmaceutical Association President Chan-Hwi Cho said this about the list extens...
Insurance Benefit Evaluation Committee accepts propriety of health insurance benefits for ‘Iclusig Tab’
The Health Insurance Benefit Evaluation Committee accepted propriety of Iclusig. Tecentriq Inj will also receive a conditional uninsured evaluation.
The Health Insurance Review & Assessment Service(HIRA) Health Insur...
Series of medicines running out of stock or suspended manufacturing due to problems in ingredient supply
With the unstable ingredient supply and manufacturing delays, there have been an endless number of medicines running temporary out-of-stock or suspended manufacturing.
According to the industry concerned, Sanofi-Aven...
Non-small cell lung cancer treatment ‘Tagrisso’ applied for health insurance benefits from 5 December
The health insurance benefits of ‘Tagrisso,’ a non-small cell lung cancer treatment completed with the drug price negotiation, was decided registration and will be applied from 5 December.
Compensation plans for the ...
