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Dispensing fee related ads baffle pharmacist
Pharmacists are disturbing at the recent advertisement of a doctor organization that the government should curtail the higher drug prices and pharmacist’s dispensing fee to ensure better financial stability of the nat...
Lee Hae-sook elected president of Korean Pharmacist Association
Lee Hae-sook, a chief pharmacist at Seoul National University, has been elected as the 21st Korean Society of Health System Pharmacist 's president, it was learned on November 5.
Lee was in a competition with Song ...
Questionnaires of survey baffle pharmacists
The Korean Pharmaceutical Association on November 4 made public some questionnaires of a survey that include doctor’s demand in the current system of separating drug dispensing from medical practice.
The questionna...
Drug selling outside pharmacy should be punished, KMA says
The Korean Pharmaceutical Association said on November 4 that drug selling acts out of pharmacy by a drug store is not deemed appropriate.
On March 2008, an outpatient at a large hospital at Songpa, Seoul received ...
Abbott to receive returned goods of Reductil from pharmacy
Abbott Korea has sent a circular letter to proprietors of pharmacy and wholesalers that it will receive returned goods of Reductil (sibutramine), an obesity drug, from the market until November 11 at the latest.
Th...
Daily dispensing charge rises 2.2% in 2011
The government has recently decided to increase the daily dispensing charge of drug stores to 3,890 won next year, from 3,810 won this year, according to the Korean Pharmaceutical Association.
The revised dispensin...
Pharmacies urged to return sibutramine-based drugs at actual invoice price
All pharmacies should be hurry to return sibutramine-containing medicines to related pharmaceutical firms and/or wholesalers based on the actually trade price, the Korean Pharmaceutical Association said on October 15....
Pharmacists calls for more transparent drug bidding in hospitals
Representatives from the Korean Pharmaceutical Association (KPA)’s regional chapter group announced a statement on October 11, calling for the government to overhaul the current cash incentive plan.
The statement s...
Chung Se-young elected president of PSK
Chung Se-young, a professor at Kyunghee University pharmacy college, has been elected as president of the Pharmaceutical Society of Korea (PSK), it was learned on October 8.
Chung was in a competition with Ham Won-ho...
Drug stores to be free from cash receipt
Pharmacies will not be obliged to issue cash receipt as they do not belong to the simple taxation business category, according to the Korean Pharmaceutical Association.
According to the Ministry of Strategy and Fia...
