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Decreasing number of pediatric and ENT patients worsens pharmacy management
With the pronouncing downward trend in the number of prescription at pediatric and ENT clinics, their neighboring pharmacies have faced financial hardships in more intense competition where the number of pharmacies in...
Public tender markets getting far distrustful.
The public tender business for the purchase of drugs mostly invited by general hospitals seemed to go very distrustful, revealing that the suppliers are hardly get any business gains even though such a difficult tende...
Campaign for idle drugs to reuse
The Pharmacists Coalition for Healthy Society (hereinafter called Coalition: President: Mr. Lee Byeong-do) took a meeting at the KPA conference room on June 26 and declared to launch a special campaign for the unused ...
Integrated finance of two insurance cooperatives expected to implement from this July
The envisioned financial integration of both employees and regional insurance cooperatives will be in fact made available from this July, as lawmakers in the National Assembly's Health and Welfare Committee agreed tha...
Clear definition of new drugs urged
Domestic R&D based pharmaceutical firms have recently contended that more clear definition of new drugs and their license standards need to be re-established, as the current approval of Korean new drugs have been made...
Pharmacognosy Professor Association opposes waiver of toxicity tests on 152 herbal ingredients
In a second meeting held on June 19-20 at Hyosung Catholic Univeristy of Daegu, the Pharmacognosy Professor Association reaffirmed that it still oppose a new plan of the Korea Food and Drug Administration designed to ...
NHI financial integration not to be politically exploited.
The Korean Confederation of Trade Unions took a large rally at Yeouido Seoul on June 25, denouncing the Grand National Party against their 2-year postponing policy of integrating the national health insurance (NHI) fi...
Drug wholesalers and makers cooperating for key product price-keeping.
The OTC drug wholesalers and 27 major manufacturers gathered together on May 14 to form "Pharmaceutical manufacturers and wholesalers cooperative council" in an attempt to explore a co-existence and co-prosperity. The...
Plan of arbitrary drug price cut hits snag
The pharmaceutical business sources say that under the current a new actually transacted minimum price system to have been implemented since September of last year, the government plan to make another arbitrary cutbac...
Number of newly opened hospitals and clinics up gradually
With the overall slumping trend in domestic pharmaceutical sector, there is a gradual increase in the number of newly opened hospitals and clinics and notably, a great number of practitioners prefer to establish their...
