News About: Pharm. Affairs
Which are pharmas having top 100 most reported products for side effect?
A report about side effects of influential pharmaceutical companies’ multiple products for the past 5 years between 2013 and 2017 was reportedly made.
According to the ‘Top 100 Most Reported Products for Adverse Drug...
Some foreign pharmas’ confusing indication of expiration date interrupts pharmacists
Pharmaceutical companies’ method of indicating expiration date has created confusion on consumers, which caused difficulties to pharmacists in the field.
According to the pharmacy circles, pharmacists have frequently...
Rapid increase of side effects for emergency household medicines after being sold at convenient stores
It was criticized sales of emergency household medicines at convenient stores, which has been implemented since 2012, have rather threatened based on many reports about their side effects.
The Minjoo Party Rep. Choon...
Complera challenges HIV market again with health insurance benefits
Janssen Korea’s HIV treatment ‘Complera’ attracted the industry as returning the market with health insurance benefits.
The Ministry of Health and Welfare(MOHW) revised and announced health insurance registration of ...
3 of 4 approved medicines were ETC
3 of 4 approved medicines were reportedly a ETC drug.
According to the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety, there were total 1,497 medicine products approved between January and September; among the total, 1,196 product...
“We recommend Metformin as primary treatment for oral drug of diabetes type II”
It was suggested ‘Metformin’ must be primarily used as an oral single-substance drug for the treatment of diabetes type II.
The Korean Diabetes Association(Chairman Moon-Gyu Lee), on the 28th, held a press conference...
Prolia enters range of health insurance benefits based on excellent bone density improvement
‘Prolia(generic name: denosumab),’ an Amgen Korea’s first biological osteoporosis treatment, has been registered in the health insurance benefit list since the 1st of October.
Prolia, the first and only osteoporosis ...
More emergency household medicine selling stores than pharmacies
It was surveyed that there are more stores selling emergency household medicines than pharmacies in Korea.
According to the Ministry of Health and Welfare, the number of emergency household medicine sellers was total...
Sudden decrease of bioequivalently approved medicines by 54% year-on-year
There were 481 medicines newly approved by bioequivalence test this year, which was decreased by more than half compared to the same period of the last year.
According to the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety(MFDS), t...
Ilyang Pharmaceutical’s Supect shows high generic response than Glivec
A phase III clinical trial result of ‘Supect(radotinib),’ the Asia’s first leukemia treatment developed by Ilyang Pharmaceutical, was published an online-version of an international journal ‘Clinical Cancer Research,’...
