News About: Pharm. Affairs
KPA to press Roche Korea over returned stock issue.
Roche Korea has emerged as one of the uncooperative companies to the Korea Pharmaceutical Association over the returned stock issue, and therefore the KPA is strongly giving a pressure to Roche.
The KPA filed an a...
Seoul and Busan Associations in conflict over Zuellig's agreement.
The Busan Pharmaceutical Association (BPA) harshly criticized its Seoul partner association over the business trade memorandum agreed between Zuellig and the Seoul Pharmaceutical Association (SPA) that should be funda...
MOE finally to determine pharmacy curricula reform.
The pharmacy school system change has been a critical issue in the pharmaceutical community, and it seems to be finalized soon at the Ministry of Education and Human Resources Development (MOE) within the scope of the...
KPA to open Returned Stock Operating Unit.
Korea Pharmaceutical Association (KPA) decided to operate "Returned Stock Operating Unit" for the purpose of smoothly returning stocks from the member pharmacies in the joint meeting with the relevant commissioners fr...
Zuellig and Retail Pharmacies Make Cooperative Agreement on Pharmaceutical Inventory Returns
In the fourth round of negotiations on amending the contractual returns for the pharmaceutical wholesale distribution by Zuellig Pharma Korea (ZPK) and its associate distributors, the representatives from the Seoul Ph...
Different OTC Retail Prices Drive Public Dissatisfaction
The retail pharmacist community is raising concerns for the increased level of public dissatisfactions and mistrusts on the sales of over-the-counter (OTC) products, driven by a series of distribution price increases ...
Domestic Model for Corporate Pharmacy System Strongly Supported
The observations on the current corporate pharmacy practices in Japan have suggested that the retail pharmacists must fully recognize the significance as well as the implication of the corporate pharmacy system, which...
Total Number of Healthcare Providers Surpasses Over 70,000
According to the recent report released by the Health Insurance Review Agency (HIRA), there was a total of 70,394 registered healthcare providers in the nation as of year-end 2004, including hospitals, medical and den...
KPA Requests Post-Marketing Surveillance on Roche Korea's Caldivita
The Korea Pharmaceutical Association (KPA) announced on March 21st that it has submitted a request to the Korea Food and Drug Association (KFDA) for an undertaking of post-marketing surveillance on the alleged substan...
Cumulative Inventory Return Project Makes Stagnant Progress
The nationwide project coordinated by the Korea Pharmaceutical Association (KPA) on the return of unused cumulative pharmaceutical inventories is not being well executed, according to the retail pharmacist community.
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