News About: Pharm. Affairs
Korea’s healthcare professionals top 1,010,000
Korea has a total of 1,010,000 medical providers as of the end of 2007, according to data released by the Korean Medical Association.
Of the 1,010,000 professionals, there are 91,475 doctors, 23,126 dental doctors,...
Card firms face growing calls to cut fees
The Korean Medical Association plans to step up pressure on credit card firms to slash fees they levy on clinics, threatening to raise a public campaign against card firms unless their demands are met.
To that end,...
Added-on dispensing charges backfires
The added-on dispensing charge system at pharmacy, which has been introduced in 2001, has drawn negative responses from most consumers.
The system is designed to compensate the pharmacies with night-time serve at w...
Doctors protest drug substitution bill
Doctors have vehemently opposed a bill designed to grant an incentive system to pharmacists who will use generics for an original brand product.
The Korean Medical Association (KMA), the nation's largest group of d...
Doctors, pharmacists clash over prescription rights
Disputes are arising between doctors and pharmacists over who gets the right to prescribe medicines to patients.
While the pharmacists claim that the doctors should prescribe the active ingredients of a drug and th...
KPA to sell welfare devices for elderly people
The Korean Pharmaceutical Association has announced its plan to sell a variety of devices aiming to help promote the welfare of elderly people.
“We've been seeing rising demand among elderly people recently and dec...
Korea Pharmaceutical Society publishes dictionary and book
The Pharmaceutical Society of Korea held its publication ceremony on December 15 to celebrate the publishing of a new dictionary, including a pharmacology guidebook for middle and high school students.
The dictiona...
Health functional drinks deemed expensive at supermarket
A survey of 20 pharmacies and 20 supermarkets showed that the prices of major four health drinks at supermarket are higher than those at pharmacies.
The Korean Pharmaceutical Association reported that the price dif...
Park Sang-dae named new president for Korea Support Committee for IVIInternational Vaccine Institute (IVI) appointed Kim Park Sang-dae, a honorable professor of Seoul National University, as its third chairman.
Park will succeed two predecesso...
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SNU pharmacy school wins state fund for WCU project
The Ministry of Education, Science and Technology announced on December 1 that under the World Class University (WCU) project, it selected the research plan titled “study for fusing molecular medicine science and biop...
