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Drug industry on backlash to KRPIA name change.
The Korean pharmaceutical industry expressed a harsh backlash against the movement of the KRPIA's name change from Korea Multinational Pharmaceutical Association in Korean version into Korea Research Pharmaceutical In...
Sanofi-Aventis partly to recall "Clexane inj."
Sanofi-Aventis announced to recall about 30 batches of Enoxaparin (Clexane inj.) in 58 countries over the world including Korea, Africa, Asia, Latin America and Europe at a level of keeping its safety according to the...
A type hepatitis prevention period from mid-Feb. to March end.
The Korea Pediatric Practitioners Association declared "A type hepatitis prevention period" starting from the middle of February to the end of March, a spring vacation time, placing a campaign called "Keep our babies ...
Daewoong reporting business performance up to 3Q of 2005.
Daewoong reported the business performances for the first 9 months of FY2005 (Apr. 1 to Dec. 31, 2005) at 247,300 million won of sales, 33,553 million won of operating incomes, 33,357 million won of ordinary incomes a...
Pfizer Korea free distributing CD of "No smoking" song.
Pfizer Korea Consumer Group will distribute free CD containing a no-smoking song to all public health centers across the national, to help consumers quit smoking themselves.
The no-smoking CD song was prepared unde...
New Health Minister's first official activity on elderly welfare.
New minister Rhyu Si-min made his first official activity for the elderly welfare.
Minister Rhyu who inaugurated his new post on Feb. 10 took his first official activity by visiting to Soo-jeong Elderly Welfare Hou...
New guideline for advertising of functional health foods
The advertising for 100% of indexed ingredients in the functional health foods seems to be practically impossible in the future according to the Korea Autonomous Advertising Review (KAAR)
The KAAR announced on Feb....
Evening service charges raised a lot of confusion in pharmacies.
The time for the evening service charges was advanced about 2 hours from 8 p.m. to 6 p.m. on the weekday and from 3 p.m. to 1 p.m on Saturday, the guideline of which has been applied by very few pharmacies. Instead, o...
2005 sales of Green Cross rose 199% at 336,400 MW.
Green Cross reported the 2005 business performance with 336,400 million won of sales, 199% up from the previous year, 29,200 million won of net incomes, 231% up from the previous year. 32,000 million won of operating ...
Expensive drug prescriptions at neighbour clinics declined by 8.3%.
It shows a gradual declining trend of the expensive drug prescriptions at most of private clinics located at residential areas according to the Health Insurance Review Agency (HIRA) report of "3Q of 2005 Review of Med...
