News About: Pharm. Affairs
Pharmacists seek for revision of customer protection laws
Dispensed drugs cannot be exchanged or refunded for possible contamination or patient's health, said an official at the Korean Pharmaceutical Association.
Their reaction came out when the lawmakers' Committee for F...
Battle likely to get fiercer between pharmacy and supermarket
Pharmacists will roll up their sleeves to promote the advancement of large businesses into pharmacy sector for diversifying management, escalating controversy between pharmacists and supermarket owners.
When it was...
Pharmacy chain corporations focus on selling private brands
Pharmacy chain firms are strengthening their private brand products in a bid to diversify pharmacy income sources.
Analysts say their private brand products will bring greater more income and profits to many pharma...
Lawmaker calls for crackdown on illegal pharmacies
Those pharmacists who run their pharmacy with less than ten square meters in area or in a two-story building should be punished to prevent the possible shady deals over prescription between doctors and pharmacists und...
40% of consumers avoid clinics
Four in every 10 consumers prefer pharmacies to clinics in treatment of light disease, such as common cold, as they feel burdensome in visiting clinics due to the national health insurance's less coverage on patients ...
Less health insurance coverage in minor disease does not affect pharmacy management: survey
78 percent of pharmacists do not worry about adverse impact by a new public health insurance regulation to lower health insurance benefits for treatment of minor ailments while increasing coverage for advanced illness...
Pharmacy's signboard tax exemption plan hits snag
Seoul Metropolitan City has raised opposition to pharmacists' petition to allow tax exemption tax on the protruding drug signboard, saying the issue should be handled by the revision of road laws.
In a gathering w...
Health ministry kicks off evaluations on large university hospitals
The Ministry of Health and Welfare announced that it will conduct the second evaluations on the nation's 85 large hospitals with 500 sickbeds between October 9 and November 30.
The evaluations will be conducted bas...
Domestic drug makers asked for promoting partnerships
Dongwha Pharm's research head Rhu Jae-man proposed that Korean pharmaceutical firms make joint research and development (R&D) outsourcing projects with foreign partners.
I hope domestic drug makers may become poten...
Lotte Confectionary eyeing pharmacy market
Lotte, the country's leading confectionery maker, has been more actively eyeing the local pharmacy market for an additional jump in growth.
To that end, the confectionery giant plans to solidify its position in pha...
