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Iressa shows promise in advanced NSCLC
Follow-up study results show that Iressa (gefinitib) is effective in the treatment of advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) in Korean patients, according to the Korean Cancer Study Group.
Prof. Kang Jin-hyung...
Bayer Diabetic HealthCare launches its Dream Fund program in Korea
Bayer HealthCare AG is establishing the Bayer Dream Fund program in Korea to coincide with the launch of the Breeze blood glucose monitoring system.
The Bayer Dream Fund is an annual contest designed to encourage p...
Pharmaceutical industry produced 11 trillion won of drugs in 2005.
The total production value of drugs by Korean pharmaceutical industry in 2005 showed 11,421,600 Million won, which was 9.27% up from the previous year of 10,452,600 MW according to "2005 Pharmaceutical Production Repo...
Wholesalers highly welcome use of other logistic facilities.
The use of other wholesaler's logistic facilities seems to be very popularized among the local drug wholesale industry in the future according to the government' logistic promotional plan and the wholesaler's needs wh...
New drug policy hits snag
After the Ministry of Health and Welfare announced its new plan on May 3 to cut the prices of medicines manufactured by foreign companies to reduce its soaring insurance coverage for medicines, multinational drug manu...
Choi-hyeok becomes AstraZeneca Korea executiveOn June 19, AstraZeneca Korea announced on June 19 the appointment of Choi-hyeok, a former marketing general manger of Loreal Korea, as executive director of AstraZeneca Korea's...
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Andrin Oswald named as new president of Novartis KoreaNovartis Korea announced recently the appointment of Andrin Oswald, MD as a new president and Dr. Peter Maag, who was a former president for the Korean unit for over two years, ...
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Industry seeking to promote OTC drug markets again.
Local pharmaceutical companies are trying to promote the OTC drug markets again in viewing that the prescription drug markets already got saturated with severe competitions and
its growth seemed to be marginal on ac...
Rep. Cho Bae-sook named chief of Health and Welfare Committee.
In the second half term of the 17th National Assembly, Health and Welfare Committee, Rep. Cho Bae-sook seems to be elected as the chief commissioner of the ruling Uri Party. It was well considered for her to appoint a...
KFDA mulls appealing court's ruling in bioequivalence testing data forged
The Korea Food and Drug Administration (KFDA) said on June 15 that it is considering appealing the administrative court's ruling in favor of the generic makers in a dispute that a number of domestic bioresearch center...
