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Drug equivalency data submission to be simplified
KFDA plans to ease the drug equivalency review works by shortening the process and simplifying the necessary data to submit.
The Drug Review Division of KFDA indicated at the explanatory meeting for the drug revie...
GSK to sue 3 domestic firms for Zofran business damages.
The patent dispute on finasteride (a drug for the treatment of prostatomegaly), between Choongwe and MSD has not been smoothly solved but appealed to the Seoul High Court. Amid this atmosphere, GSK recently raised a ...
Pharmacy-claimed health insurance amounts down 9.3% in February
The National Health Insurance Corporation said on March 17 that the health insurance amounts claimed by pharmacy in February came at 349.17 billion won, down 9.27 percent compared with 384.86 billion won from the prev...
Beckman Coulter teams up with Dong-A Pharm
Beckman Coulter Inc., one of the world's biggest diagnostic reagents and equipment companies, has joined with local leading drug maker Dong-A Pharmaceutical Co. that will exclusively supply Beckman Coulter's instrumen...
Ketotop honors at Korea's anti-arthritic brands survey
Pacific Pharm said recently that its Ketotop (ketoconzole) patch was consecutively chosen by local customers as No. 1 brands among anti-arthritic drugs in 2004 following the selection in 2003, the Korea Management Ass...
Drug makers still supplying broken or inferior drugs.
Despite KFDA's strict quality controls a lot of broken or inferior drugs are on the markets according to the Illegal and Inferior Drug Report Center of KPA.
Most of inferior drugs came out in the delivery process d...
Consumer group named Aronamin Gold as the best brand
C&F Management held "2004 First Brand" event in a joint sponsorship with Korea Economy News Paper and Korea Consumer Forum wherein Aronamin Gold of Il Dong was nominated as the 2004 first brand in the multivitamin sec...
Local wholesalers keen on M&A and joint logistics
Business sources said there is mounting trend that outstanding issues on merger & acquisition among wholesalers and joint logistics of drugs have been actively promoted by a local M&A committee in Pusan, southern part...
Testosterone replacement gel launched in Korea
Hanmi Pharm said on March 18 that it has launched the first-ever testosterone replacement gel, TestoGel, in Korea, for the treatment of low testosterone, also known as hypogonadism.
Developed by Laboratoires Besins...
Toughened drug advertisement guidelines hurt OTC sales
Tougher drug-related public advertisement guidelines, which is now regulated by provisions of drug advertisement layouts in the Korean Pharmaceutical Affairs Law, has affected overall OTC sales, market sources said re...
