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Civic groups demand resignation of health minister
Some groups of the Health and Medical Confederation, the Participatory Solidarity Association, and the Korean Labor Union demanded in a recent press conference that Minister of Health and Welfare Kim Hwa-joong should ...
More Korean people to utilize oriental hospitals
A majority of medical users said that if their out-of-pocket portion in the medical outlays is reduced, they would switch to oriental hospitals/clinics instead of western hospitals, a survey showed recently.
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Initial trial on NHI reimbursement price negotiation failed.
The NHI reimbursement price negotiation between the medical and pharmacy communities and the NHI corporation in the morning on Nov. 11 went failure due to too distant positions, signaling a difficult future.
The NH...
Yuhan to launch functional health food business with new brand.Yuhan (President: Cha Joong-keun) announced to launch 2 new functional health food products into the market under the new brand "Willow", meaning the willow tree.
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M&A pressure is building up on domestic wholesalers
In situation where the reckless expansion in the number of domestic drug wholesalers has been blamed for a wide variety of side effects such as slashed wholesaler margin, irregular transactions prevailing in the distr...
GSK won patent dispute over ondansetron
The Seoul District Court ruled on October 30 that Asia Pharm's Zapron had violated the local patent of GlaxoSmithKline's ondansetron (brandname: Zofran) in a patent dispute filed by GSK Korea on March 2002, following ...
Pharmacy dispensing charges totaled 3.9 trillion won during third quarter
The dispensing charges claimed by 19,168 pharmacies for the third quarter of this year reached 3.9 trillion won, up 8.2 percent compared with the same period last year, according to statistics released by the Health I...
Diabetic patients suffering 12 fold more from impotence.
A DEDE (Diabetes Erectile Dysfunction Epidemiology) study conducted by Prof. Cho Nam-han of the Preventive Medicine, Aju University Medical College sponsored by Bayer and GSK reported that one in 4 diabetic patients i...
KMA blames for clinic business slow to pharmacies.
President Kim Jae-jeong of the KMA claimed that the business recession currently experiencing by private clinics in residential areas should be rendered to the dispensing activities at pharmacies.
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Medical and pharmaceutical circles mull 20% increase in 2004 medical treatment charges
Pharmaceutical business sources say that there will be a controversy over the negotiation of medical treatment charges in 2004 between medical/pharmaceutical circles and government, as both sides have disclosed varyin...
