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Dong-A Pharm to introduce Qvar under exclusive licensing agreement with 3M
Dong-A Pharm said on January 13 that it singed with 3M of the United States an agreement for the exclusive marketing in Korea of Qvar (beclomethasone dipropionate ), a metered dose inhaler (MDI).
Using an innovati...
Drugs unproven of its bio-equivalency to exit in 2007
The KFDA policy prescribes that the drug without bio-equivalency proof should gradually exit from the market through the suspension of sales or cancellation of product registration starting from 2007 for the purpose o...
Pharmaceutical firms wary of drug-related pricing polices
With the next government's inception one month away, domestic pharmaceutical industry remains cautious of President-elect Roh Moo-hyun's pledges during election - drug price contract system and gross budge system, alo...
Drug wholesalers to put high pressure against Green Cross and CJ.
The pharmaceutical wholesale community put an extraordinary pressure against CJ and Green Cross for their sustained lower sales margin policies that had been requested to improve several times.
The KPhWA (President...
Number of dental hospitals up 25.0%
The Health Insurance Review Agency says the number of dental hospitals increased most briskly as of December 2002 as compared with that of 2001.
The total number of medical institutions increased 4.5 percen...
Baekjae plans to complete national wholesale networks in March.
Baekjae drug wholesaler plans to complete a nationwide wholesale network in coming March.
A member of Baekjae said on Jan. 13 "when Jeju and Yansang branches are completed, we will have a nationwide wholesale netw...
Transition team seeks feedback on medical reforms
President-elect Roh Moo-hyun's transition team is reported to demand the Ministry of Health and Welfare to re-report Roh's campaign promises in detail by submitting documents on what kinds of problems will emerge, whe...
Common prescription drug list prompted to submit.
The President Transition Committee made it clear that the common prescription drug list agreed in the meeting of the medical, pharmacy and government delegates for the purpose of eliminating people's discomforts shoul...
2002 turnover of foreign-invested pharmaceutical firms blunted
Business sources say that the majority of foreign-invested pharmaceutical firms experienced sluggish growth rates of turnover in 2002 over the previous year and some multinational firms plans to launch new pro...
Policy on description of drug's manufacturing arouses concern in wholesaling industry
The government plans to make a thorough inspection on the description of manufacturing and lot numbers of drugs in the on-spot process of KGSP (Korea Good Supply Practice) ex post facto management to be implemented wi...
