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Daewoong asking for associated wholesalers to answer enquete until May 27
Daewoong forwarded an official letter titled "Enquete on the associate wholesaler selection" to the associated wholesalers in different regions on May 24, asking them for the enquete to send back until May 27 with sel...
NHIC and HIRA subjected to move outside Seoul.
The MOHW affiliates such as National Health Insurance Corporation (NHIC), Health Insurance Review Agency (HIRA) and Health and Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs (KIHASA) and 177 other public organizations ...
GSK's education program for pharmacists on medication advice.
GSK plans to run an education program for pharmacists on practice under the name of "GSK Academy", providing twice a year, each for 8 weeks and 100 acting pharmacists about clinical pharmacy of pathophysiology centere...
567 drugs of 84 ingredients to amend its registration.
The total 567 drugs of 84 active ingredients including atenolol changed their registration particulars in 2004 according to the KFDA report.
Of them, 567 drugs including Reductil changed their registrations stemm...
9.2% of hospital bankruptcy across the nation.
As of the end of April this year, number of medical institutions at the level of over hospitals counted for the total 1,193, 10.25% (111) more increase than April 2003 of 1,082, the total number of beds being 5.29% up...
Lilly and Daewoong on mountain climbing event for Cialis.
Lilly Korea and Daewoong jointly planned a Cialis promotional event named "Let us climb up to the peak along with Cialis" inviting urologists, sales staffs for Cialis and their families and 100 mid and late adult moun...
Adulterated herbal drug distribution under scrutiny.
The KFDA plans to increase number of sample collections of herbal drugs more intensively this year to block adulterated and irregular herbal drug distribution in the market in advance.
The KFDA will check intensive...
Medicare for elderly people to adopt by 2007
The MOHW and the Uri party agreed to present a provision to the National Assembly, covering a medicare system for the elderly people being fully implemented from 2007. The program covers a medical service at the level...
NHIC to loan 30 to 50% of medication expenditures
The National Health Insurance Corporation may give a loan to any retail pharmacy easily within 30 to 50% of the medication expenditures that could be refunded from the NHIC.
The NHIC has signed a joint financial su...
First court's citation on famciclovir patent disputes.
Suwon district court ordered a first citation on the date of May 24 to Novartis and Kyungdong over the patent dispute on famiciclovir, an anti-viral drug.
Novartis claimed that Famclover (generic name: famciclovir)...
