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Community pharmacy favors new prescription plan
Pharmacists at community pharmacy are eager to prescribe low-priced medicines than those at pharmacies neighboring at hospitals, a local professor said on October 30.
In an annual scientific convention, Prof. Lee E...
People get Tamiflu at pharmacy
Citizens, who are found to be infected with the H1N1, a subtype of influenza A, may be able to buy Tamifu at pharmacies across the country from October 30, the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Family Affairs said.
H...
Pharmacists staging signature campaign against doctor’s drug dispensing
The Seoul Pharmaceutical Association expressed its fir determination to oppose doctor’s dispensing of five medicines at state-designated hospitals to combat influenza A and collected signatures from its members and ci...
Pharmacists at Goyang gearing up for extending DUR
Goyng Pharmaceutical Association has recently decided to extend its second test-run Drug Utilization Review (DUR), a government-imposed review of prescribed drugs.
Ham Sam-kyun, chairman of the Goyng Pharmaceutical...
Min unveils hospital-pharmacist-friendly policy
The Seoul Pharmaceutical Association’s Chairman nominee Min Byung-rim, incumbent vice chairman of the same association, said on October 23 that he will incorporate several proactive hospital pharmacist policy elements...
KPA, government square off over new pharmacy college
The conflict is deepening between the government and the Korean Pharmaceutical Association (KPA) over the recently disputed new pharmacy college establishment plan in nine areas nationwide.
The Education Ministry i...
Pharmacy school quota set for 9 regions
Nine regions will see at least one 6-year pharmacy school, the Ministry of Education and Human Resources Development said recently.
The ministry has categorized the potential pharmcy school universities into nine g...
Pharmacy service fee to rise 1.9%
The National Health Insurance Corporation (NHIC)says the pharmacy service charge will go up by 1.9 percent from next year.
Under the recent agreement reached between the Korean Pharmaceutical Association and the (N...
ZPK urged to create more fair competition
Zuellig Pharma Korea (ZPK) should not interfere with its domestic wholesalers’ efforts to make direct dealing with multinational companies, the Korean Pharmaceutical Association (KPA) in October 25 statement.
The s...
Debate over prescription rights
The government’s recent move to allow doctors to dispense five medicines (antipyretics, anti-tussives, anti-histamines, antibiotics and expectorants) at some major hospitals nationwide designated as centers for influe...
