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KFDA Prohibits Current Use of Company Initials from Required Identification Label
The Korea Food and Drug Administration (KFDA) recently set a ruling on the pharmaceutical manufacturers’ debate over the company name identification label to be specified on the oral medications of solid type, such as...
Post-Surgery Medication Dispensary by Doctors Not Permitted
A compilation of civil Q&A details, which was recently published by the Ministry of Health and Welfare (MOHW), indicates that the medical practitioners cannot dispense the antibiotic medications to their patients if t...
MOHW Clarifies Substitution Dispensary Practices
The Ministry of Health and Welfare (MOHW) has recently provided clarifications surrounding the substitution dispensary of prescription medications by the pharmacists, detailing a number of possible scenarios that woul...
New Hypertension Guidelines Focus on Prevention
The Korean Society of Hypertension (KSH) has published a revised Clinical Practice Guidelines for Hypertension Treatment, based on its collection and analysis of various statistical data generated from the Ministry of...
LG Life Sciences’ Novel HBV Treatment Proven for Its Efficacy and Safety
LG Life Sciences, Ltd (LGLS) reported the interim results from the current Phase 2 clinical trial of LB80380, regarded as the next generation treatment for hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection. The results were presente...
Request Made for Regulatory Measures on Unapproved Free Medical Practices
The board members of the Korean Hospital Association (KHA) recently visited Mayor Lee Myung-bak of the nation’s capital, Seoul, to express their concerns over the current issues surrounding the hospital management, an...
Domestic Pharmaceutical Company Provides Free Pharmaceutical Supplies
Cho-A Pharmaceutical Co. announced it will provide free pharmaceutical supplies to a local clinic that was recently established to provide medical services for foreign labor workers, who are suffering various stress-r...
Genome Project for Alcohol Producing Bacterium Completed
The research team of Macrogen Inc., a domestic biotechnology venture company, reported on the results from its genome-sequencing project of ethanologenic bacterium Zymomonas mobilis, in the on-line edition of Nature B...
Domestic Research Institute Continues Its R&D Strengths Under New Name
The Pharmaceutical Research Institute of Chung-Ang University has recently been renamed as the Institute for Molecules-Based New Drug Development, with continued focus on its R&D efforts in producing biotechnology-bas...
More Ethical Generics to Compete With Originals in 2005
The current intensive campaign efforts by the Korea Association of Pharmaceutical Wholesaler (KAPW) to promote domestic ETC first and novel generics will include Pfizer Korea’s Neurontin (gabapentin) and MSD Korea’s P...
