News About: Pharm. Affairs
7 of 10 license-using pharmacists were female in Seoul
6 of 10 license-using pharmacists(pharmacists who actually use pharmacist license for work) were reportedly a female pharmacist.
Moreover, farming and fishing areas had a higher ratio of male pharmacists, and urban a...
KPA carries out demo project for ‘digitalization of paper prescriptions’
The Korea Pharmaceutical Association(President Chan-Hwi Cho, KPA) signed a memorandum of understanding on the 26th to improve efficiency of delivering prescriptions between hospitals and pharmacies, enhance convenienc...
Serial Number Committee to carry out preparation of aggregation guideline and demo project
A demo project will be conducted to inspect standardization of medicine aggregation.
The Serial Number System Revision Committee on the 26th had discussions about ways to standardize aggregation and combined use or u...
Dong-A ST challenges ‘Viread’ with ‘Virreal,’ hepatitis B treatment
Dong-A ST will challenge ‘Viread’ by launching ‘Virreal Tab,’ a hepatitis B treatment, on the 1st of October.
Virreal Tab is a product which changed fumarate from tenofovir disoproxil fumarate, the main substance of ...
Medicines suspended supply and manufacturing due to various reasons
There are an increasing number of medicines going out of stock or be suspended manufacturing for various reasons.
Alvogen Korea is expected to suspend manufacturing of ‘Colonyte Powd’ and ‘Colonyte Powd 2L’ due to it...
182 medicines including Follitrope Prefilled Syringe Inj newly registered for health insurance service
182 medicines, including Follitrope Prefilled Syringe Inj, an infertility treatment, will be newly applied for the health insurance service from the 1st of October.
The Ministry of Health and Welfare(MOHW) amended an...
6,400 hospitals and clinics and 7,100 pharmacies opening during Chuseok holidays in Korea
The Ministry of Health and Welfare(Minister Neung-Hoo Park, MOHW) announced to provide information about hospitals, clinics and pharmacies to minimize inconvenience and prevent overcrowding for emergency rooms by lett...
KPA decides to form ‘Special Committee for International Nonproprietary Names Program’
The Korean Pharmaceutical Association(President Chan-Hwi Cho, KPA) held the 9th Executive Directors’ meeting for the year of 2017 on the 21st and decided to form the ‘Special Committee for the International Nonproprie...
Number of pharmacists short of about 7 thousand within 3 years, MOHW considers to increase pharmacist students
As it was suggested that the number of pharmacists would not be enough to the population in the future, the Ministry of Health and Welfare(MOHW) is reportedly reviewing to increase the maximum number of students in co...
Recruitment of clinical trial applications addressed in smart phones
Korea is a powerful country in clinical trials and has the highest smart phone and high-speed Internet distribution rates. Unlike its status, however, the country has no integrated clinical trial information and is li...
