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More pharmacies seeking for management digitalization.
"Pharmacist Kim is sick today. He is not going to work at his pharmacy. However, he did not much worry about only one assistant pharmacist working at his pharmacy because he could frequently check the pharmacy operati...
KFDA to inspect sale of PPA-containing cold drugs
A total of 340 inspectors from the Korea Food and Drug Administration and its six regional KFDA agencies, cites/provinces and regional pharmacist associations have begun undertaking the mass crackdown campaign nationw...
Key products of foreign corporations on hot competition.
Most of foreign multinational drug corporations in Korea have enjoyed their business almost exclusively with their key R&D innovative products. However, recently these key products encountered a harsh competition and ...
OECD-based pricing guideline should be introduced, lawmaker suggests
The government needs to re-evaluate the current pricing-set system of reimbursable drugs and introduce a new OECD-based pricing guideline to discourage the increasing prescription patter toward high-priced drug and pr...
BAI to raise provisional reforms for more substituted dispensing
The Board of Audit and Inspection of Korea (BAI) found that the post notification provision played as a main hampering constrain for pharmacies unable to actively exercise their substituted dispensing. The current pos...
BAI warns of drug wholesalers' insufficient capital funds
The Board of Audit and Inspection worried that of 86 drug wholesalers based in Seoul and Pusan last year, 19 have failed to meet their legal paid-in capital requirements and their average capital ranges are between 50...
13 hospitals found expensive in medical fee of specific disease groups
13 local general hospitals are receiving their relatively expensive medical fees among specific diseases, said Rep. Chang Hyang-sook of Uri Party who cited data presented by the Health Insurance Review Agency during t...
Abbott Korea launches tulobuterol patch
Abbott Korea said it has launched tulobuterol patch (brandname: Hokunalin) for the treatment of asthma.
Tulobuterol patch, which was developed to address nocturnal symptoms and maintenance of lung function in asthm...
Medipartner to launch business explanatory session for one-stop service in China
Medipartner said it will hold its medical business explanatory session in Peking, China, during October 21-25 in a bid to entice the investment of Korean hospitals and clinics with high interest in the Chinese market ...
National Assembly called for human rights of clinical testee.
In the parliamentary inspection to the government administration (KFDA) Rep. Kim Seon-mi of the Uri Party raised a question as to the human rights of clinical testee who listed in the clinical and monitoring reports u...
