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Domestic antihypertensive market heavily contested
Witnessing more than 20 percent in sales growth year-on-year, the domestic antihypertensive market in 2002 was estimated to be about 600 million won with 170 items and expanded by 43 percent as of the end of last year...
Unified EU patent registration saving cost.
Recently the patent registration system in the EU seems to be unified under the single registration umbrella at the EPO, which may give far cost saving effects to us.
According to the EPO, any patent application fi...
Descriptions for OTC drugs to change in common languages.
The pharmaceutical industry speeds up changing the inserted direction circulars and other packages/containers to be written in common languages for consumers, and some company changed the descriptions even for the pro...
Novel form of vitamin discovered in Japan
A novel 14th form of vitamin was discovered by the Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN) led by Kato research team, which was 55 years after Umetaro Suzuki isolated Oryzanin, or vitamin B1, from rice bra...
Government urged to introduce "therapeutic equivalence" concept for activation of substitute drug...
Government urged to introduce "therapeutic equivalence" concept for activation of substitute drug dispensing
The classification of permissible substitute drugs should be made based on a comprehensive concept of "t...
400 items to benefit from health insurance
The Ministry of Health and Welfare has recently announced that 346 items, including 54 items whose drug equivalence has been established, will be newly eligible for health insurance from this June 1st.
Included in ...
KFDA toughens regulations on KGSP-accredited firms
The Korea Food and Drug Administration (KFDA) said that during the second quarter of this year, its six regional agencies would conduct intensive surveillance on 1,200 wholesalers accredited with Korea Good Supply Pra...
Multilateral appraisal system to apply for high government officials.
The MOHW is going to renovate the personnel management system reflected with its transparency, focusing it far on the objective and scientific standards, the enhanced transparency through an open process, the enhanced...
Drug shelf life most troublesome in pharmacies.
The retail pharmacy appealed a lot of complaints to drug companies with which the shelf-lives of some drugs expired already or soon but were not given any notification at all.
The KPA illegal and inferior drugs r...
Computerized drug claims of medical institutions topped 88 percent
Statistics compiled by the HIRA showed that as of March-end of this year, 57,993 medical institutions (87.8 percent of total institutions) across the country utilized the computerized drug claims (EDI, diskett...
