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KPA to petition exempted sales report obligation in health food sales.
The newly revised Health Functional Food Administration Act eliminates the privilege clause for the pharmacy to exempt the sales report obligation of the health functional foods, which triggered such a harsh backlash ...
Hospital's infective disposal wastes to be reclassified.
The provision for the hospital disposal wastes has been revised more to toughen the administrative supervision against the hospital wastes. As a result, it may trigger a more waste volume and its handling costs as wel...
Pharmaceutical industry skeptical of large corporations' advancement into pharmacy market
Although some large companies have recently renewed their keen interest in entering domestic pharmacy market, the existing pharmacy chain firms including drug makers are skeptical of their success albeit growing conce...
One out of 10 Koreans at more than 15 years suffers from Excessive Daytime Sleepiness: survey
Excessive Daytime Sleepiness (EDS), a common and most disabling syndrome of narcolepsy, is emerging as one of the serious social issues in Korea, as one of ten Koreans at more than 15 years has the overpowering need f...
Formation of R&D consortiums needed to promote domestic R&D new drug projects
There is mounting consensus in domestic pharmaceutical industry that the breakthrough for better competitiveness of Korean pharmaceutical firms in the global arena is to ensure the efficiency of R&D spending through t...
Green Cross to start vaccine plant construction in Vietnam.
Green Cross Vaccine Inc. (President: Cornellis Monern) took a ground digging ceremony for the construction of a vaccine plant affiliated to the National Institute of Hygiene & Epidemiology(NIHE) of Vietnam in presenc...
Description for individual tablet identification to enforce from 2005.
For the prevention of any possible misuse of drugs, the KFDA is considering to adopt a provision of which an individual unit of oral solid formed drugs should be marked with an identification description taking effect...
Controversy arises over introduction of drug utilization review system next year
The government unveiled a plan to implement a new drug utilization review (DUR) system designed to check the prescription of contraindicated drugs and/or drugs prohibiting the use beyond specific age groups next year ...
Hanmi is set to establish its returned goods management center
Hanmi Pharm said on December 4 that it would set up a new grievance center to effectively deal with the excessive drug inventories at pharmacy upon request, including drugs whose shelf life was/will be expired.
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CJ to introduce FSAD treatment Femprox
CJ announced it entered into an exclusive distribution agreement with the U.S.-based NexMed Inc. on November 21 for the introduction of Femprox, which is effective in treating female sexual arousal disorder (FSAD).
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