News About: Pharm. Affairs
KPA to investigate pharmacy committed unfair trade.
Korea Pharmaceutical Association (KPA) announced on May 20 to investigate the pharmacy who committed a business collusion in the prescription with physicians and other unfair business transactions as one of the self c...
KMA to promote earlier implementation of GPP system
The Korea Pharmaceutical Association says it is contemplating a series of new plans designed to ameliorate related to pharmaceutical-rated regulations via a joint establishment of a working committee with the Ministry...
Competition heats up in functional drinks marketWith the weathermen's forecast that this summer heat will come earlier than expected and there is increasing well-being life style trend for better health in public, a number of...
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Pharmacist association negatively responded to Pharm Bank.
Recently the Gyeonggi province office intended to establish so called "Pharm Bank" of which unused drugs or remnant stocks at retail pharmacies in the province would be collected for free supplies to unprivileged peop...
Credit card companies may increase service charges of medical institution
In the unofficial meeting with the Korea Medical Association and other members on May 2, which was organized by a civic group, domestic seven credit-card companies (BC, Samsung, LG, Kookmin, KEB, Hyudai, and Shinhan) ...
Proprietors of pharmacy urged to diversify earnings sources
Overall business slump and intensifying competition at pharmacy have put many pharmacies in more aggravated management conditions due to less number of prescriptions from hospitals and sluggish OTC sales, in addition ...
Illegal dispensing and collusion to exit from memberships.
Pharmacist communities have decided to expel the member pharmacies when committed illegal dispensing and unfair practices including a business collusion for a successful settlement of the medical and pharmacy role sep...
Pharmacy communities welcome daily on-duty pharmacist system.
Incheon Bupyeong Pharmacist Association announced that so called "Daily On-duty Pharmacist" system was in practice with high acceptances in the area. The system is to provide an on-duty pharmacist to the pharmacy wher...
Korea needs earlier introduction of clinical pharmacology training program
Korea must implement an earlier introduction of the controversial 6-year education system for pharmacy college, which dictates the necessity of the clinical pharmacology training program, according to a local professo...
Drug sales through e-commerce to hit 100 billion won barrier this year
Riding on a tidal wave of Internet connections, the domestic drug e-commerce market is expected to break a 100 billion barrier, as demonstrated by the fact that sales of drugs through the cyber market by leading pharm...
