News About: Pharm. Affairs
Pharmacists calls for easing of mandatory double-entry bookkeeping
Pharmacists had demanded the government to overhaul its proposed double-entry bookkeeping (or double-entry accounting), which will aggravate pharmacy management.
The Ministry of Finance and Economy plans to adopt d...
May income tax revision improve long-held unfair sales practices?
A number of proprietors at small pharmacy wholeheartedly welcome the government's income tax revision laws in the hope to shed malpractices and shady deals between large pharmacies and drugs wholesalers, as the income...
Health insurance delinquents' wealth likely to be auctioned
The state-run National Health Insurance Corporation (NHIC) has decided to auction the properties of 307,904 households (122.9 billion won in arrear) comprising high-income earners, such as doctors and lawyers who refu...
Pharmacy management relying on prescription business by 70%.
The OTC business activation became a top hot issue in the pharmacy circles. The prescription centered pharmacy business so far has created a bi-polar phenomenon, an extremity in the rich and the poor, raising a shrink...
New year projects of franchise companies and chain drug stores.
The 2007 will be a turning year for the franchise pharmacy companies and chain drug stores to seek a new leap.
The leading franchise pharmacy, Ohnuri and Withpharm and the first running drug store, W-store, project...
Oriental medical circles on national rally against KORUS FTA.
Korea Oriental Medical Association (KOMA) and its 7,000 member oriental doctors took a massive rally for protesting the KORUS FTA plan of opening the oriental medical market at 2 p.m. on Jan. 10 at the front yard of G...
Government urged to promote patronage system in pharmacy
The government needs to encourage an introduction of so-called "patronizing pharmacy system" in order to avoid duplicate prescriptions by many hospitals and minimize patient's possible inconvenience, according to the ...
Drug makers and wholesalers to face penalty
The Korean Pharmaceutical Association said on January 10 that it will seek a penalty against pharmaceutical makers and wholesalers who has delayed their plan for small package unit production, which has been obligator...
Transfer admission to pharmacy college on the rising competition.
A competition for the transfer admission to the pharmacy college showed ever unchangeable trends this year too. As of Jan. 8 the application rates for the transfer admission of the first semester of 2007 to 8 ph...
Adult drugs found in baby formula
Tablets or capsules for adult use were found in a baby formula in the dispensing process using an automatic packaging machine, according to a public center in Seoul.
There have been similar complaints about impurit...
