All Type of News
KFDA to expand number of national biological drug-related standards
The Korea Food and Drug Administration unveiled its plan to increase the number of state-run biological drug-related standards in a bid to ensure their better quality.
Earlier, the KFDA announced a list of the foll...
7 out of 10 Korean women are in planned pregnancy: survey
Seven out of 10 Korean women in their 20s are pregnant by planning and the majority of them are most concerned about delivery of a deformed baby, a survey showed recently.
Roche Korea said, based on its survey of 9...
New health functional foods flooded in registration.
New registration of health functional foods has shown a rising trend since the enforcement of the Health Functional Foods Act.
KFDA approved the registration of total 75 health functional food products from 36 com...
Sales of Drug wholesales rose 13% on average in 2003.
The business performance by drug wholesalers in 2003 showed an overall rise of sales with about 9% increase of net incomes on the contrary to an earlier doomed prediction.
According to 60 drug wholesalers financial...
Wholesaler transactions up, pharmacy transaction down
The Korea Tax Union said in its report that 96 pharmaceutical firms traded a total of 2.60 trillion won worth of drugs with drug wholesalers in 2003 from their total sales revenue of 6.35 trillion won, reflect...
Korean scientists embarks on more intensive stem cell research
Stimulated by the announcement that Hwang Woo-suk and Moon shin-yong of Seoul National University have become the first in the world to successfully clone a human embryo and then culled stem cell from it, domestic res...
GSK donates 7. 5 billion won to North Korea
GSK said that in partnership with the Korean Association of Pediatric Practitioners which demonstrated its support for 300,000 disposal syringes (total market value of approx. 20 million won), a total of 300,000 doses...
KFDA to estalish Drug Information Office
Chief commissioner Lee Hee-seong of KFDA indicated in his lecture titled "Pharmaceutical Administration Enforcement Strategy" during the general meeting of the Drug Development Specialized Pharmacists Council that Dru...
KFDA mulls over new drug registration data at international standards.
KFDA set up a task force team to prepare new guidelines until coming Oct covering all necessary data formats for required new drug registrations at an international standard, called CTD, that all member nations of the...
KOSDAQ-listed firms grapple with falling profits
The combined sales revenue of the 14 KOSDAQ-listed pharmaceutical firms last year marked a growth rate of 8 percent to 431.3 billion won, up 8.3 percent compared with 398.0 billion won from a year earlier but their op...
