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New health minister unveils nation's health and medical reforms
In her first press interview with reporters on March 6, Minster of Health and Welfare Kim Wha-jung announced her plan to carry out landmark reforms in the nation's health and medical systems. Excepts:
1) Ongoing sy...
Aggressive stimulus measures for pharmaceutical industry needed
Rhee Jang-han, new chief-director of the Korea Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association, said that the KPMA will concentrate its efforts to revamp the current reimbursement price system to a level that is sufficient t...
Bills for minor diseases like common cold to review by computer.
The Health Insurance Review Agency (HIRA) mulls to adopt a computer review system for the bills charged on minor disorders such as common cold to speed up the review more efficiently and scientifically.
Mr. Shin Yo...
NTS to probe medical institutions shunning credit cards
National Tax Service disclosed on March 6 that its special investigation will soon be made on any medical institutions including pharmacies which are found to shun the usage of credit cards habitually (10 times) and/o...
Pharmacy management transformation at cross road.
The pharmacy faced many difficulties in maintaining current employees including the assistant pharmacists in defiance of the necessity for the management transformation and redundant manpower cutoff caused by ever dec...
Smaller package of drug should be preferred, KPA and Wholesalers say
Business sources say that to cope with the rapidly increasing volume of drug inventories in pharmacy, a smaller package of drug should be supplied as a fundamental measure.
1) Korea Pharmaceutical Association
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KPMA gets four new vice-chief directors
The Korea Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association held the second board of directors meeting and elected four new vice-chief directors including Huh Il-seob, vice-chairman of Korea Green Cross; Yang Heung-joon, presi...
Few wholesalers to procure Glivec stocks.
A growing number of patients are looking for Glivec as the KFDA extended its indication ranges and therefore drug wholesalers should get enough stocks, but very few secured its stocks.
A drug wholesaler located in...
"March Crisis" rumour for hospital oriented pharmacies found real.
The pharmacies mainly located near medical institutions ( hereinafter called: hospital oriented pharmacy) and took prescription filling business was worried about so called "March crisis" in their business, which now ...
Organon to conduct multinational studies in patients with breast cancer
In the large, multinational (25 countries), multicenter (150 hospitals) clinical trials, Organon intends to assess the effect and safety of Livial (tibolone) in patients with the history of breast cancer who have comp...
