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Korea's OTC output showing sluggish trends for last decade
The Korea Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association says that it recently analyzed OTC output trends for the past 10 years and found that:
- Despite the sustained growth of pharmaceutical production for the past 10 ...
Pharmaceutical Regulation Group report claims domestic wholesaler-based drug distribution ...
Pharmaceutical Regulation Group report claims domestic wholesaler-based drug distribution systems' inadequacies
Growing number of domestic small-sized wholesalers with narrower space of warehouse has resulted...
MOIE to support BIT fusion technologies.
The Ministry of Industry and Energy announced a 5 year investment plan at about 69,500 million won for a BIT industry, a combined of BT (Bio technology) and IT (Information technology) industry to build up a national ...
KFDA to adopt special product registration system
The current review system applying to the pharmaceutical product registration will be replaced with so called "renewal of product registration" every 5 year along with a special product registration covering that any ...
Dietary supplement with anticancer properties to be launched in Korea
SVN Company, a local firm which was set up by the investment of Samjung ITC Group, said it would exclusively launch Selected Vegetables, a dietary supplement containing molecules that have anticancer or immune system-...
Registration for slightly modified drugs on cross road.
Even during the drug registration review for any original new drug, the industry claimed that the health registration for a slightly modified new drug, for instance, developing a new salt derivative from the original ...
Number of insurance premium-unpaid insurance subscribers up 20.3% in first half
About 3.45 million Koreans in the low-income bracket have not received the nation's regional health insurance benefit, a lawmaker warned recently, calling for the government to come up with a long-term plan to help th...
Overweighted adolescents 13 times more risky in health.
A survey reported that 8 in 10 obese adolescents (76.5%) were diagnosed as various chronic disorders including hyperlipedemia, liver dysfunction and hyperglycemia, and that they were likely to develop many other chron...
Boryung markets lung cancer diagnostic reagent MAZE kit
Boryung Pharm said it has signed an agreement with Daeyong to distribute MAGE (melanoma antigen gene) kit, a patented lung cancer diagnostic reagent, to hospitals in Seoul and Kyunngi Province. The kit's test method w...
DNA chip receives KFDA approval
BiomedLap and Mygene, local biopharmaceutical firms, said on July 20 that it received from the Korea Food and Drug Administration the approval for HPV (human papilloma virus) DNA chip for the first time in Korea.
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