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Minister-designate Rhyu listening more to people's voices than interest groups.New Minister-designate of MOHW, Rhyu Si-min said in the parliamentary confirmation hearing on Jan. 7 that he would listen more to the voice of people rather than the pressure of...
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Court to decide public opening of antibiotic abused hospitals.
The Seoul Court of Administrative Litigation 1st Div. finally determined to open the hospitals where prescribed lavish antibiotics in the 1st as well as the 2nd trial on Feb. 4, 2006.
The 2nd trial to confirm its ...
KPA to warn illegal sales promotional package plans.
Some of local pharmaceutical industries who also run a beverage business were found to practise illegal marketing promotional activities as a compensational package of pushing their pharmaceuticals with incentive beve...
NHI to reimburse Reminyl for additional indications from Feb.
The NHI reimbursement for the additional indications of Reminyl, an anti-schizophrenia drug, will be effected from Feb. 1 covering the Alzheimer disease patients with cerebral vascular conditions according to the revi...
Green Cross joint anti-cancer drug research with MD Anderson Cancer Center.
Mokam Bio Engineering Research Institute, an affiliated institute of Green Cross, agreed a joint research and development with MD Anderson Cancer Center in the United States for Greenstatin, a novel anti-angiogenesis ...
LG/Novartis Korea on joint marketing of fluvastatin.
LG Life Science (President: Kim In-cheol) and Novartis Korea announced a joint marketing agreement on Feb. 6 for the distribution of fluvastatin, a cholesterol lowering drug under the trade names of Xylap XL by LG and...
1,401 applicants to pass national pharmacist qualification examination.
The total 1,401 applicants have passed the 57th national pharmacist qualification examination conducted on Jan. 19, 2006, showing about 86.5% out of the total 1,619 applicants according to the announcement of National...
Hyundai Pharm. to establish an independent software company.
Hyundai Pharmaceutical Co. announced that as of Feb. 1 the company established a separate and independent software companay called "Hyundai I&S" (president: Kim Yeon-kyu).
Hyundai I&S has operated an IT business s...
KFDA to settle down safety issue on Celebrex.
The KFDA decided to change labelling of all non-steroid anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) including celebrex, aceclofenac, meloxicam, ibuprofen and naproxen. Thus, the safety problem of Pfizer's Celebrex has been sorte...
Number of practicing pharmacists declined.
During the past 10 years number of pharmacists in practice declined while other rest rose according to the analysis on 10 year (1995-2005) annual report status to the Korea Pharmaceutical Association (KPA). Every ...
