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Misuse or overuse of antibiotics still pronouncing in prescription pattern
Pharmaceutical sources say that although the use of the primary antibiotics has radically declined after the separation of drug dispensing from medical practice (SDP function), local doctors tend to prescribe more sec...
Korean scientist discovered Cholesterol and fat metabolism related protein.
Prof. Lee Jae-woon of Pohang Institute of Technology discovered an essential protein named ASC-2, a new active cofactor, that controls the expression of gene linked with the metabolism of cholesterol and fat in the li...
KFDA grants Apatoxin inj. as novel natural drug
The Korea Food and Drug Administration announced on May 3 that Guju's Apatoxin inj. (dried bee venom) received the first manufacturing approval for the treatment of osteoarthritis as a new natural drug for the first t...
Recent SARS fear batters drug exports
The domestic pharmaceutical industry raised a serious concern about the drug export to China critically hampered by the outbreak of SARS mainly due to remarkable declined drug consumption in China and the logistic dif...
Doctors tend to prescribe more drugs for pediatric patients
Pediatric patients under less than 6 years are being exposed to excessive prescription drugs (4.7 items per prescription) and their steroid drugs prescription ratio in prescription represented more than eight percent ...
Domestic wholesalers to grapple with sagging OTCs sale at community pharmacy
Influenced by slumping demand of community pharmacies located at a residential street, an increasing number of domestic wholesaler have witnessed their tumbling OTCs sale by 10-20%, as the economic slowdown is becomin...
Marketing strategies to segment by seasonal diseases.
The pharmaceutical companies are pushing their marketing promotional campaigns over the items for the seasonal market demand, such as yellow dusts blown from the China desert, SARS and allergenic pollens.
The indus...
Pharmacists desire earlier introduction of good pharmacy practice system
The government should seek to make an earlier introduction of good pharmacy practice (GPP) system, which have been in pending status despite efforts of the Korea Pharmaceutical Association amid the preparation work of...
Serious problems of children's asthma on the steep rise.
Children are suffering from asthma that used to be deemed as an adult's disease in an increasing trend, from 5% in 1980 to 10% in 1990s and 15% in 1995, probably due to whopping air pollutions, requiring an aggressive...
Health minister to coordinate welfare reforms
Minister of Health and Welfare Kim Hwa-joong said on May 1 via her detailed statement responded to the following issues raised by members of parliamentary committee of health and welfare last month:
1) Institutiona...
