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Pharmacists calls for easing of mandatory double-entry bookkeeping
Pharmacists had demanded the government to overhaul its proposed double-entry bookkeeping (or double-entry accounting), which will aggravate pharmacy management.
The Ministry of Finance and Economy plans to adopt d...
64% of pharmacists favor new drug pricing policy
About 64 percent of pharmacists supported the government's new drug policy, so-called positive list system, as the insurance system cover only what the government assesses as "high quality, cost-effective" drugs, acco...
Novartis Korea assigned Zelmac promotion to Uthis.
Novartis Korea announced to assign a product detailing activity of Zelmac (tegacerod) sales promotion in local private clinic markets under a certain agreement with Uthis company, a specialized out-sourcing company in...
No-smoking aid market heats up
Domestic no-smoking aid market has emerged as an arena of tripartite competition Samyang's Nicostop, Johnson & Johnson Korea's Nicorette and Novartis' Nicotinel TTS.
Korea's no-smoking aid market is estimated at 2...
Geo Young to enter new era of drug logistic.
Geo Young may run its new drug logistic center located at Hyoseong dong Incheon city from coming March, thus opening its new era of drug logistic in Korea.
The center may be completed to construct in Feb. and comm...
New drug pricing policy should be go into effect gradually
Korea's drug pricing and reimbursement policies need to take effect by phase after health authorities will have a sufficient number of experts who are able to evaluate the pharmacoeconomics, according to a local profe...
Speedy clinical trials to be available
Clinicians will be able to conduct their clinical trials in a prompt manner with the proposed introduction of a joint institutional review board (IRB), according to the Korea Food and Drug Administration.
To that e...
Cancer patient's payment remarkably lightened.
As the national health insurance (NHI) coverage got remarkably extended to patients these days, the cancer patients have received a lot of benefits with less pocket money payments to their medical expenses.
The NH...
Mandates for small drug packages should be supplemented.
The production or supply of small packaged drugs was provisionally mandated to the drug company on Oct. 7, 2006 but in its implementing process they found a lot of problems in connection with the inventory pile-up and...
Bill submitted to destroy prescription & medical records
A group of 18 lawmakers from the governing and opposition parties have sought a law revision to allow doctors and pharmacists to destroy, without fail, prescription and medical records after elapse of a given period.
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