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Warning on early outbreak of Japanese encephalitis
3 weeks earlier warning than the previous year was announced in public by the NIH against Japanese encephalitis epidemic.
The NIH has found over 50% of the mosquito as a mediator of Japanese encephalitis in Jeonna...
KRPIA calling for scrapping of actually transacted minimum drug price system
The Korea Research-based Pharmaceutical Industry Association has called for the Ministry of Health and Welfare to scrap the current actually transacted minimum drug price system and to withdraw the envisaged price-cut...
Pfizer Korea opts for same pricing strategy on Lipitor
Pfizer Korea said it will soon launch Lipitor 40 mg, lipid-lowering agent, at the same level as Lipitor 20 mg in the domestic market.
Earlier, the company lowered voluntarily the original insurance price of Lipitor...
Pfizer Korea's confidence on Viagra sales
Although a number of entrants will intensify their fierce competition in domestic market for erectile dysfunction drugs, Pfizer Korea that said it will welcome newcomers and that Viagra may lead the market as a foreru...
Drug health registration system to be reformed.
Periodically the health registration of pharmaceutical products will be upgraded by revising the current registration system, the KFDA said.
To this end the KFDA will raise a revised bill of the working rules of th...
4 medical societies and resident association opposing to DRG system
4 medical specialist research groups including the Korea society of Ob & Gyn, General Surgery, Opthalmology and ENT and the Medical Resident Association indicated in their official statement on Aug. 26 that they firml...
KHIDI transferring technology to Biolab.
The Health Industry Technology Transfer Center of the KHIDI succeeded in coordinating a technology transfer on Aug. 25 from Prof. Han Eung-soo of Agricultural College who developed the technology for "the prevention a...
Government unveils 10 technology growth engines
The government said it designated the list of ten technology items, including new biodrugs, that are expected to lead Korea's economic growth, from the August 22 meeting at presidential blue house and 160 representati...
KFDA to adopt five-digit system in therapeutic category
The Korea Food and Drug Administration has pushed for a plan to change the current three-digit system of therapeutic category into a five-digit system as in the United States, for Korea's international harmonization w...
BMS Korea to withdraw taxol from Zuellig Korea
BMS Korea said it will decide on the issue to withdraw taxol from Zuellig Korea upon a newly-appointed president's return from overseas trip on September 2, while it sticks to outsourcing its OTC business to Zuellig K...
