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Awareness of drug brands increasing
With the increasing awareness of customers over drug brands, many pharmaceutical firms are expressing their keen interest in enhancing their brands as drug brands with better customers' awareness may contribute to sig...
20 new drugs to be commercialized soon
The Korea Drug Research Association said that clinical trials are under way for 20 news drugs being developed by domestic pharmaceutical firm, except for SK Chemical's Sunpla inj. (antineoplastic), Daewoong's ...
Drug industry to reactivate OTC drug business.
The KPMA decided to promote the OTC drug business in view of reducing people's medical costs and stabilizing the NHI finance by establishing a research council for OTC drugs, improving the OTC drug registration proces...
Health minister initiates her nigh-time work
Minister of Health and Welfare Kim Wha-jung commenced his night-time work at National Medical Center on March 10 in an effort to fulfill her participatory welfare.
A health ministry official said on March 11 that ...
Bayer's Levitra approved from EC
Bayer and GlaxoSmithKline announced on March 7 that they have received marketing authorization from the European Commission for Levitra (vardenafil HCl) for the treatment of male erectile dysfunction. The decision fol...
Drug companies to penalize against no compliance of production reports
The pharmaceutical manufacturers are legally obligated to report their pharmaceutical productions periodically to the government authority but found some companies did not comply, for which the government intended to ...
Reckless stock returns and dividing regulation troublesome to wholesalers.
The drug wholesalers are in big trouble with the reckless stock returns by retail pharmacies to an extent that not only the stocks over 20 years past but also 2 to 3 individual pills or the stocks whose suppliers were...
Standard transaction agreement proves ineffective at pharmacies
The current standard transaction agreement designed to ensure more efficient dealings between pharmaceutical firms and pharmacies, which was revised by the Korea Pharmaceutical Association last December, has actually ...
Controversy arises over the stakes of Medilinx
Reportedly, a specific pharmaceutical firm has owned a large proportion of stakes in Medilinx which created EZMEDICOM through the merger with EZHOSPITAL whose capital fund was completely eroded last year.
As Seoul ...
GSK Korea sponsored symposia for Avandamet
GSK Korea said it has sponsored symposia in commemoration of launching in Korea of Avandamet tablet (rosiglitazone maleate + metformin), type 2 diabetes medication, from next month.
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