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China, world's fifth largest pharmaceutical market by 2010
China's pharmaceutical market will rank fifth in the world in terms of size, according to a study released by the 4th pharmaceutical industry forum in Asia-Pacific region.
The study said that the nation ranked seve...
Sungkyunkwan pharmacy college vows to create better educational atmosphere
The pharmacy college of Sunkyunkwan University said it would create better educational atmosphere for new students in 2005 by scrapping its special recruitment and transfer systems under which a total of 20 students h...
Organon Korea to open Implanon call center
Organon Korea said it has been operating its free call center for Implanon, a rod-type contraceptive, as part of its efforts to beef up the customer-friendly service.
According to the company, the call center (phon...
KHIDI's disclosed support program for medicinal industries
The Korea Health Industry Development Institute (KHIDI) reported their 2004 support programs for the medicinal industries covering the industrial approval and the formation of the pharmaceutical industry development c...
Sanofi-Synthelabo Group achieved 15% of sales up last year.
Sanofi-Synthelabo group reported their business performances during 2003 on Feb. 17 describing, to compare to the previous year, 15.6% up of the net sales with 8,048 million Euro dollars (about 11 trillion won), 17.6%...
Domestic pharmaceutical firms rush to launch off-patent drugs
Korea's local pharmaceutical makers are scrambling to introduce a wider variety of first generic products with bigger market potentiality this year in a to have a strong foothold in the domestic ethical market...
KFDA to ameliorate GMP standards within this year
The Korea Food and Drug Administration unveiled its plan to revamp GMP (good manufacturing practice) regulations, which is scheduled to be completed by the end of this year at the latest.
To that end, the KFDA set ...
Number of new drug wholesalers plunged sharply
There have been positive signs in the domestic wholesaling industry that the number of new small wholesalers is in a downward trend, an indication that this may significantly contribute to a firmer establishment of dr...
KFDA to control human tissue planting materials.
The KFDA authorized Hans Biomed Inc. as the first company for the safety control of the human tissue transplanting materials, which had raised social problems before because of no national control system over its dise...
NHIC to implement a spot-checking on pharmacy dispensing.
The pharmacy should comply to the National Health Insurance Corporation (NHIC) when requesting any dispensing records and data or a spot-checking over the pharmacy dispensing. In otherwise, the pharmacy will be subjec...
