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Hanmi seeking global sales plan for Amodipine.
An explanatory meeting for amlodipine generic drugs was arranged by Hanmi following Chonkundang for 20 members of "Thursday Club", a wholesaler's club, in presence of other 3 city and provincial wholesale association ...
SERMs to help prevent postmenopausal bone loss in women
An imbalance in the bone remodeling cycle caused bone loss that eventually leads to osteoporosis and fracture risk, and among selective estrogen-receptor modulators (SERMs), raloxifen (Evista) may be considered an eff...
Task force to analyze influence of corporate pharmacy system inducement
Influenced by the government plan to introduce the corporate pharmacy system in a not-too-distant future, the Korea Pharmaceutical Association said on August 26 that it has set up a task force consisting of some membe...
Green Cross and Green Cross BC to merge.
Green Cross announced on Aug. 26 that its subsidiary Green Cross BC, a consulting company, and Green Cross Medical Engineering would be merged after completing their business registration.
Green Cross currently ...
First-version generics predicted to exceed 30-70% of domestic pharmaceutical market
Pharmaceutical business sources said that Korean first-version generic drugs, such as amlodipine and glimepiride, may make up more than 30 to 70 percent in less than 10 years, thanks to local doctors' changed percepti...
Generic drugs beneficial to local clinic markets.
By taking occasion for the glimepiride and amlodipine generic drugs to launch in Sept. many pharmaceutical firms would try to concentrate their marketing activities into the private clinic markets, which may give a lo...
Substantial increase of hospital admission fee eyed
The Korean Hospital Association has called on the government to raise the daily admission fee of hospital-level institutions, claiming that the current fee hovers at less than percent of the actual cost and this has w...
Health ministry to evaluate SDP system via questionnaire
The Ministry of Health and Welfare announced that it will conduct a 26-point questionnaire survey as part of efforts to introduce a card system designed to purchase drugs at pharmacy, while evaluating the overall func...
Public hearing on NHI development plan.
The NHI Development Council, an advisory to the MOHW minister, will hold a public hearing titled "A public hearing on the pursuit of NHI development plans" at the NHIC's cellar auditorium at 2 p.m. on Aug. 27.
Th...
Pharmaceutical firms face damage suit over cold remedies
Recently, six Korean people filed a 500 million won damage suit against the government and some cold drug makers, claiming they had suffered side effects from medicines containing phenylpropanolamine (PPA), which alle...
