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Korea Green Cross poised to break one trillion won barrier in 2010 sales
As a total healthcare service provider, Korea Green Cross Corporation unveiled on November 10 its plan to achieve its sales of one trillion won in 2010 with net income of 80 billion won, in line with shareholder-frien...
Dong-A Pharm nine-month sales rises 13%
Dong-A Pharm, Korea's leading drug maker, said it posted sales of 412.3 billion won for the nine months of this year, up 13.19 percent compared with 364.2 billion won a year ago, due to continued robust sales of presc...
Bayer Korera taking over OTC drugs from Roche Korea.
Bayer Korea may take far aggressive promotional activities on their non-prescription drugs in the market to make their business capacity one step upward next year.
Bayer Korea announced in the middle of this year t...
Government seeking to apply different NHI price to each medical institution
The National Health Insurance Corporation said on November 10 that its 2005 NHI price negotiations will be made on each medical institution based on the study results of an external organization, reflecting different ...
More BT specialists are needed, ex-KFDA commissioner says
Special measures designed to ensure the large number of biotechnology specialists of Korea Food and Drug Administration and expand its substantial budget are needed to expedite Korea's R&D sector, said Professor Shim ...
Women and weight gain: oral contraceptives are not main culprit
Why do the myths persists when it comes to oral contraceptives and weight gain?
The concern about weight gain while taking oral contraceptives (OCs) should be countered by reassuring the patient that weight gain ra...
One in 3 men of over 40s suffering climacteric symptoms.
One in 3 men of over 40s suffering climacteric symptoms.
A study of Prof. Park Nam-cheol, a urologist of Busan Univ. College of Medicine reported that by surveying 571 men of 40 years or older who called at Busan U...
Next year NHI price negotiation shrouded in fog
A lot of unclear variables lied ahead in the negotiation of the NHI reimbursement prices for the next year between the NHIC and the medical service providers.
By taking a chance for the NHI finance balances to tur...
KPMA redefines scope of entertainment, etc. in fair trade code
The Korea Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association said it has streamlined its fair trade code in terms of entertainment, amount of pilot batches, donation of research fund, etc. The salient points are:
- The scope...
Domestic wholesalers face several outstanding issues to be tackled
The domestic drug wholesalers are quickly moving to settle their outstanding issues for ensuring more strong footing in the distribution sector and many observers have a keen interest in what their future tracks are g...
