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Lawmaker blames doctors' strike
Rep. Chang Bok-shim of the ruling Uri Party criticized doctors' threat of collective action against the government-proposed plan to let the National Medical Center implement the test-run prescription by generic name i...
A weekday pack of Daewoong's NVU attracts popularity.Daewoong's NVU (cibutramine), an anti-obesity drug, was designed in a weekday pack so that patients could easily keep complying to the daily administration of the drug, which hi...
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New drug-pricing policy weighing on local pharmaceutical market
The current positive list system is weighing on the domestic pharmaceutical manufacturers as the new system will fatally damage their earnings, experts said.
Under the new system, when the patent period of an origi...
KFDA to warn heart failure labelling to Avandia and Actos.
Health regulatory agency ordered a strong heart failure warning to the two thiozolidinedione diabetic drugs, Avandia and Actos.
The KFDA said on Aug. 17 that two thiazolidinedione antidiabetic drugs, Avandia (r...
Internal report shows doctors obstacle to prescription by generic name
The participatory government tried to implement the system of promoting the prescription by generic name in December 2003 but didn't fell short of making public in the face of strong opposition, according to an intern...
Quinvax, a quinquevalent vaccine, to receive world top product award.Berna Biotech Korea Corp., a subsidiary of Crucell NV, a bio-engineering company of Netherlands, recently introduced Quinvaxem, a fully-liquid vaccine for protection against fiv...
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Another drink rush
Kwangdong Pharm, the country's leading drug maker famous for Uwhangchumsimwon, has 2007 as a year to strengthen its international reputation.
Sales of corn silk tea are expected to turn around, driven by increased ...
Drug makers urged to meet various versions of GMP
Under the government plan to strengthen competitiveness of domestic pharmaceutical industry by strengthening management of GMP Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP), local pharmaceutical manufacturers will be soon subject...
Export sales as a key for local drug industries to survive.
Local drug industries are getting more enthusiastic in exploring the overseas drug markets by various marketing activities as a company survival strategy.
Recently Dong-A announced $68 million worth of overseas sa...
KFDA orders death warnings
On August 14, the government instructed drug makers to attach a stricter warning about the risk of death in patients when labeling recombinant human erythropoietin (epoetin alfa), produced using a mammalian cell line ...
