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Korean scientists find cancer-preventing gene
A team of Korean scientists has identified a human gene, called AIMP3 (previously known as p18), in charge of preventing cancer
The team, led by Prof. Kim Sung-hoon at Seoul National University, said recently the f...
No interested in blood sugar test strips in pharmacies.
The retail pharmacies did not show any interests in the business of the blood sugar test strips despite a strong promotion by the Korea Pharmaceutical Association for the member pharmacies. The KPA launched this busin...
Students rush to pharmacy schools
A growing number of students are applying to take entry tests for pharmacy schools in a move to seek more stable jobs amid soaring graduate unemployment.
In the first-cycle period for 2007 entry tests on July 1...
Test group criticized bio equivalency test fraud.
It is pointed out that a simple discord of the test data should not be treated it as a data manipulation.
The Bio Equivalency Test Group organized with the faculty members of the college of pharmacies who took part...
Protesting demonstration against KORUS FTA talks.The pharmacy college students and the pharmacy practitioner group are protesting against the FTA negotiation on July 11 during the 2nd KORUS FTA meeting along with placement of ...
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A new concept of Nano drugs shows promising futures.
Prof. Hwang Seong-joo of Choongnam Univ. College of Pharmacy said on July 4 that insoluble drugs could make its absorptive rate higher by a double fold with a Nano type of fine particles, especially for the drugs like...
Corporate pharmacy issue to be finalized in Sept.
A long time pending issue on the government's legislation for the corporate pharmacy has surfaced with a final shape and may be debated in the plenary cession in Sept. by the National Assembly.
The MOHW has receive...
Foreign pharmacy graduates eligible to qualification examination.
A national pharmacist qualification system seems to be reformed in which those who graduated from the foreign college of pharmacy would be eligible to get the national pharmacist qualification examination after passin...
Pharmacy distribution: 2,316 populations per pharmacy.
According to the HIRA statistics, as of May 2006 there were 20,504 pharmacies, which was 416 more than the previous year of 20,088, and the population per a pharmacy and a number of clinic per pharmacy was 2,316...
KPA campaign for handling diabetic test strips at pharmacies
The Korean Pharmaceutical Association (KPA) asked its member companies to encourage more active selling of diabetic test strips as part of a campaign to minimize inconvenience for the general public using them and max...
