News About: Pharm. Affairs
Pharmacy Faculty Association to gear up 6 year pharmacy school system.
The Korea College of Pharmacy Association (KCPA), a faculty group of the college of pharmacy across the nation, had a meeting on June 14 and put full spurts to the 6 year pharmacy school system.
President Sohn Yo...
3 pharmaceutical associations to discuss pending issues.
3 pharmaceutical associations including Korea Pharmaceutical Association (KPA), Korea Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association (KPMA) and Korea Pharmaceutical Wholesale Association (KPWA) met together to resolve probl...
Proprietors of pharmacy anxious as business slump drags on
A lengthy period of weak private spending, the main culprit behind last year's disappointing 3.1 percent economic growth, has eroded profits at small and midsized pharmacies due to the widespread trend of OTC's price ...
KOMA conditionally to accept 6 year pharmacy school system.
Korea Oriental Medical Association (KOMA) keeps a firm position that the revision of the Pharmaceutical Affairs Act (PAA) for the pharmacy school to permit the 6 year curricula should be conditionally acceptable for o...
KPA set to look into two-year prescribing patterns over 300 pharmacies
In its June 8 subcommittee meeting, the Korea Pharmaceutical Association plans to analyze the prescribing patterns of doctors between 2002 and 2003 as part of efforts to effectively implement the effective SDP (separa...
KPA asks credit card issuers to lower membership fee
The Korea Pharmaceutical Association asked credit card companies on June 2 to lower the current pharmacy membership fee between 2.4 to 2.7 percent to 1.6 percent, a same level as general hospitals.
While meeting wi...
Seoul Pharmacist Association to publicize non-prescription ointments.
Seoul Pharmacist Association decided to make a nationwide campaign on the non-prescription ointment drugs that consumers could buy without physician's prescriptions.
The top executives of Seoul PA recently took a m...
Pharmacy business damaged by frequent prescription changes.
Most of retail pharmacies have faced with a mounting stock piles of unused drugs stemming from too frequent changes in physician's prescriptions as well as the wholesaler's supply avoidance of small packages, which ev...
Pharmacy to seek seasonal product sales.
The retail pharmacy communities are preparing a marketing promotional program for summer seasonal products by taking this summer weather into account as Korea Meteorological Administration forecasted it hot, rainy and...
Pharmaceutical sector under strain
Despite a variety of drug-related index showing signs of improvement in recent months, trouble lurks as most of domestic pharmaceutical makers, wholesalers and proprietors of pharmacy had a more pessimistic ...
