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Necessity to assess drug cost effectiveness getting high.
A right time has come for the pharmaceutical industry to pay keen interests in the economic assessment for the NHI drugs as it's needs grow high.
In the invitational lecture during the breakfast meeting for CEO G...
Pharmaceutical firms urged to focus on development of new drug entities
Business sources say that as Ranbaxy Labs in India has been recognized as the world's generic marker with last year's sales of over 1 trillion won, domestic pharmaceutical firms need to give priority to new drug entit...
Korean large business groups should turn to world pharmaceutical market: local seminar
Amid the situation that Korea's pharmaceutical market size is estimated at 8 trillion won and its R&D investment hovers at 4 percent to 300 billion won, Korean conglomerates should make massive amount of R&D investmen...
Six-year pharmacy college education will likely upgrade pharmacist's function
The plan to increase the present four-year study period to six years, which was agreed between the Korean Pharmaceutical Association and the Association of Korean Oriental Medicine on June 21, will surely pave the way...
Merck and Daewoong agreed co-marketing for Metformin business.
Merck and Daewoong agreed to co-market Metformin, a diabetic drug, under the brand of Glucophage by Merck and Diabex by Daewoong from coming July 1 this year.
Glucophage has kept its top seller position over the w...
FTC to review Zuellig's contract.
Korea Pharmaceutical Wholesale Association (KPWA) earlier asked for the Fair Trade Commission to review Article 10 of Zuellig's distributor agreement whether it might be against the FTC's provision.
KPWA claimed on...
NHI price approval for 313 new products.
On June 19 MOHW announced the revised ordinance of "NHI drug reimbursement and non-reimbursement and the upper limit reimbursement price list" covering 9 drugs for the NHI price changes, 313 new products for the reimb...
Pharmacy colleges' long-cherished six-year courses plan comes to fruition
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With the recent announcement from the Ministry of Health and Welfare that colleges offering pharmaceutical degrees in Korea will increase the present four-year study period to six years from the 2007 a...
Pharmacy school plan to extend pharmacology curriculum agreed
The Korean Pharmaceutical Association and the Association of Korean Oriental Medicine agreed on the plan to increase the present four-year study period to six years, starting in the 2007 academic year, according to th...
Extend curriculum of pharmacy college unlikely affect oriental doctors
In the meeting with Chairman Ahn Jae-kyu of the Association of Korean Oriental Medicine on June 20, Chairman Won Hee-mok of the Korean Pharmaceutical Association reiterated that when the pharmacy college curriculum is...
