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Insurance benefits to be expanded to triple test
The Ministry of Health and Welfare announced that the current health insurance allowance will be expanded to the triple test from this December 1st as part of efforts to help married women.
The triple test refers t...
CKD to conduct Phase I trial for novel antidiabetic agent
The Ministry of Health and Welfare said on November 22 that Chong Kun Dang Pharmaceutical Co. will conduct its Phase I trial for novel glitazone-based diabetes medication (code name: CKD-501) with the ministry's finan...
Slowdown in OTC sector
Influenced by a compulsory bioequivalence testing requirements dictated by the government this year, the number of newly approved ethicals during August-October period stood at 712, or 90 percent of the 770 it...
Conglomerates to enter a chain drug store business
The retail pharmacy and chain drug store business seems to be unlimitedly competitive among the conglomerates amid the market opening of the retail pharmacy business and permission of a corporate type of pharmacy prac...
KFDA mulls manufacturing ban of general foods as tablets or capsules
The Korea Food and Drug Administration announced on November 19 its revised plan to ban the manufacturing/processing of all general foods (excluding health foods) in the forms of tablet or capsule, as part of efforts ...
Yuhan Corporation to open mammoth R&D center in 2005
Yuhan Corporation held a ground-breaking ceremony to mark its large R&D center in Kiheung of Yongin City, Kyunggi Province on November 17.
For the company, the R&D lab would expand its research programs to a variet...
Korea liver society made a hepatitis treatment guideline
For the first time in Korea a guideline for the liver disease treatment has come out by the Korean Society of Liver (chairman: Seo Dong-jin) on Nov. 18 during the fall scientific conference at Seoul Grand Hilton hotel...
Many drug makers to seek price hike of flagship drugs
Largely influenced by the prolonged economic slump and protracted high oil price trend, an increasing number of drug makers are moving to increase the prices of some flagship products, such as pain-killers or digestiv...
KRIBB team elucidates mechanism of active oxygen speciesKorean scientists, led by Dr. Rhy Seong-eon of Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology (KRIBB), said on November 15 that they had found out how the reactive oxy...
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KPA to set Good Pharmacist Practice Standard.
The Korea Pharmaceutical Association (KPA) announced to upgrade the current GPP (Good Pharmacy Practice) to the Good Pharmacy Practice Standard (GPPS) in order to establish a good pharmacy prestige in the present medi...
