News About: Pharm. Affairs
Pharmacy circles say
The pharmacy communities have kept responding it just of nonsense for the recent control plans of the OTC cold remedies containing pseudoephedrine to limit its sales and book-keeping obligation at pharmacy. The KFDA p...
KPA to keep out other attempts to sell OTC drugs.
Recently medical communities and civic groups have strongly demanded for the OTC drugs to be available at general stores or supermarkets, thus threatening the pharmacy professions.
To cope with such challenges, the...
Exclusive drug purchase card market rekindled
Banks are rekindling competition to issue more exclusive drug purchase cards to develop new cash-cows amid dwindling interest income from mortgage lending. Their policy change comes with the government's stricter regu...
Korea should seek sales restriction of pseudoephedrine Products
The government needs to consider the enactment of sales restriction laws on over-the-counter (OTC) drugs containing a controversial pseudoephedrine often used in the illegal manufacture of methamphetamine, experts sai...
Pharmacists oppose reclassification of pseudoephedrine Products into ethical
A senior official in the Korean Pharmaceutical Association said on May 7 that it is not desirable to reclassify OTC decongestants containing pseudoephedrine into prescription drugs, expressing KPA reluctance to accept...
Retail pharmacy experiencing no longer seasonal sales .
The pharmacy market is now experiencing quite a doomed family month, May after passing a cruel April. Contrary to an expectation of good seasonal product sales in May, the month of children and parents, it was reporte...
Pharmacy sales pattern to be changed by fixed NHI payment system.
The fixed NHI payment system, which will be implemented from Aug. this year, may cause a prescription drug business centered pattern at the pharmacy to shift more to a self-medication business oriented.
In the 3rd ...
Income gap widening among pharmacies
The share of high-income pharmacies in prescription is still increasing at a gradual pace than poor pharmacies, indicating widening income disparity between rich and poor.
According to the Seoul chapter of t...
Pharmacy markets expecting a marketing for "Month of Family" in May.
May, "month of family" has come, May 5 is the day of children, May 8 is the day of parents, May 15 is the day of teachers and May 19 is the day of the coming-of-age. The retail pharmacy markets hope that many celebrat...
Pharmacists, doctors differ over bill for prescription in question
Both pharmacists and doctors have mixed feelings over the passage of a bill that doctors should explain suspicious contents in prescription to a pharmacist who raise them.
The Korean Pharmaceutical Association said...
