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Dent on drug maker's image
Market watchers predict the impact of the data fabrication on domestic pharmaceutical industry is more serious than financial loss, as the Korea Food and Administration unveiled the second results of forged bioequival...
New recombinant FSH agent to make debut soon
The Korea Food and Drug Administration (KFDA) approved LG Life Sciences' Follitrope, a recombinant follicle stimulating hormone (FSH).
This hormone is identical to the follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) produced by...
Local drug makers win patent nullification trial over Plavix
On June 28, a patent trial board ruled against Plavix (clopidogrel) patent in its nullification trial which had been sought by some local pharmaceutical firms.
Plavix is an anti-clotting agent that is the world's ...
Pharmaceutical firms vying for anti-osteoporosis market
Pharmaceutical companies are vying for a bigger share of the domestic anti-osteoporosis market as a growing number of Korean women are suffering from osteoporosis.
Osteoporosis is a global problem, affecting more t...
Lipitor patients warned of liver dysfunction
The Korea Food and Drug Administration (KFDA) announced on July 4 improved labeling for Pfizer Korea's Lipitor tablets (atorvastatin calcium), which have been linked to reports of adverse reactions, such as liver dysf...
KRPIA members to obey revised ethical code from Oct.
26 member companies of the KRPIA, a foreign multinational drug corporation group in Korea, kept promise to comply to the newly revised code of ethics from coming Oct.
The member group took a meeting called "A works...
A new concept of Nano drugs shows promising futures.
Prof. Hwang Seong-joo of Choongnam Univ. College of Pharmacy said on July 4 that insoluble drugs could make its absorptive rate higher by a double fold with a Nano type of fine particles, especially for the drugs like...
Positive list system may not save NHI finance.
The pharmaceutical industry suggested a way of better NHI financial saving than the positive list system, which included more patient's own payment for minor disease treatments, reclassification of the prescription an...
KFDA to unify no-smoking aids controls on substituted cigarette.
The substituted cigarettes shall be controlled as a no-smoking aid under the Pharmaceutical Affairs Act.
The KFDA said that any substituted no-smoking cigarettes authorized by the "Tobacco Business Law, should be c...
Chronic disease-related drugs output grows in 2005
Korea saw the production increase of 'drugs acting on circulatory system', 'drugs on peptic ulcers' and 'other metabolic agents' associated with chronic diseases in 2005, while the output of tonics fell due to a slugg...
