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Industrial development strategies put priority more on prescription drugs.
The domestic pharmaceutical industry put more efforts to the development of prescription drugs rather than OTCs.
The KFDA's drug registration data in 2002 revealed the total 1,166 of product registrations including...
Health ministry sticks to price for leukemia drug
The Ministry of Health and Welfare (MOHW) said on January that it cannot reduce the price for Glivec, explaining that the price was officially announced by the HOHW minister after consultation of the drug evaluation c...
Wholesalers required to provide drug information for pharmacy
Pharmaceutical business source say that for better drug guidance on the part of pharmacists drug wholesalers should play a major role in providing drugs information for proprietors of pharmacy who have experienced les...
Pharmacists to punish when failing service training classes.
The government administrative measures will be strictly imposed to the pharmacists who are not completed their service training classes as provisionally required.
The Special Commission for the Pharmaceutical Syste...
Industrial attention to overseas drug exhibition less paid.
Most of domestic drug industries have shown less attention to the overseas drug exhibition, which obviously called for the great changes in their interests.
The Korea Pharmaceutical Trade Association (KPTA) invited...
Indian Natco marketed Glivec's copy product
An Indian pharmaceutical maker Natco marketed on January 26 Veenat (imatinib mesylate), an identical substance to Glivec through the market approval from the Indian government. Any pharmaceutical makers can produce co...
Industry skeptical about observance of fair trade code
Although the Korea Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association (KPMA) and Korea Research-based Pharmaceutical Industry Association (KRPIA) agreed to revise the fair trade code last year after the choppy waters of advance...
Pharmacy and medical institutions must issue the payment receipts.
The National Health Insurance Corporation (NHIC) is going to establish a provisional obligation for the medical institutions including pharmacies to issue the payment receipts in order to minimize the NHI financial lo...
Prescriptions written in generic names with duplicate issuance.
As a part of the reform programs, the civil health related organizations suggested to the new government, stressing to say that the prescriptions should be written in generic drug names and issued its sheets in duplic...
Dr. Lee Jong-wook nominated as director-general of WHO
Dr. Lee Jong-wook was selected as director-general of the World Health Organization and it is the fist time a South Korean has headed a U.N. agency.
In the fifth round of voting in Geneva on January 28, Lee receive...
