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Free internet inquiries of 172 contraindicated drugs in prescription sought
The Health Insurance Review Agency announced that from March 2, it has provided via internet a list of 172 contraindicated drugs in prescription that may be freely accessible to eligible medical software suppliers and...
KFDA to begin review of internet shopping malls and on-line sites
The Korea Food and Drug Administration said recently that it will expand its public campaign to encourage the purchase of all drugs at pharmacy by reviewing the prevailing illegal marketing activities of drugs...
Pharmacy revenue on decline due to few dispensing.
The KPA (Korea Pharmaceutical Association) analysis of the 2003 national health insurance payments recently disclosed by Health Insurance Review Agency (HIRA) indicated that the pharmacy NHI business profitability wa...
MOHW intensively to support R&D for viable bio projects.
MOHW allocated the total 95 billion won of the R&D budget for 7 projects including a biological new drug and organ implantation development and its support will be intensified mainly for the project of a good business...
Southeast Asia-based drug chain giants are keen on domestic wholesaling market
With the impending domestic wholesaling market to foreign competition, market experts have warned that an array of some large-sized distribution chain headquarters in Southeast Asia are moving to join the domestic mar...
Dong-A Pharm would likely join vitamin-C drink market
Pharmaceutical business sources said that Dong-A Pharm is expected to launch a new vitamin-C drink sooner or later as part of its plan to expand market share, posing a threat to small manufacturers which have so far d...
AstraZeneca and Takeda Chemical promote Atacan's landmark clinical trials
AstraZeneca announced on March 4 that the large-scale DIabetic REtinopathy Candesartan Trials (DIRECT) was completed in February.
The DIRECT Programme, conducted and jointly sponsored by AstraZeneca and Takeda Chem...
KHIDI to support patent applications for novel technologies.
KHIDI (President: Lee Kyeong-ho) will support for a new patent application of novel technologies related with health industries developed in research institutes, universities, or health industrial corporations (except...
Education program for health functional food experts.
Health Functional Food Association (HFFA) will open the 3rd and 4th expert training course following its successful accomplishment of the lst and 2nd courses.
The Expert Training Course will invite health functio...
Medical treatment outlays total 20.5 trillion won in 2003
The Health Insurance Review Agency announced on March 3 that medical treatment outlays in 2003 amounted to 20.5 trillion won, up 7.7 percent compared with 19.6 trillion won from a year earlier. The total claims by med...
