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Natural products based patent applications up sharply
The domestic market for natural drugs has been spotlighted as one of the promising industries that may contribute to better competitiveness of local pharmaceutical and biotechnology firms.
The Korea Industrial Prop...
Rules concerning safety and efficacy of drugs, etc. eased
The Korea Food and Drug Administration announced it would draft a revision on rules concerning safety and efficacy of drugs, etc., the salient points of which are as follows:
- The license procedures for new antine...
Number of drugs per prescription has been on gradual decrease
The drug charges per treatment day and the number of drugs per prescription has been gradually reduced, according to data of the Health Insurance Review Agency assessing the feasibility of drug charges in 29,4...
Sanofi and Aventis likely to merge.
Leading French pharmaceutical companies,Aventis and Sanofi-Synthelabo are very likely to merge.
Chairman Jean-Francois Dehcq of Sanofi-Synthelabo indicated openly in an interview with Le Figaro on Jan. 9 about a me...
Botox is Daewoong's brand name, not a surgical terminology.
Daewoong pointed it out incorrect over the press article describing on a public media on Jan. 8, saying "an unqualified Botox surgical assistant nurse was arrested", and made it clear that "Botox" on the press was fou...
Industry's less burden on separation disposal indication system of packaging materials for drugs...
Industry's less burden on separation disposal indication system of packaging materials for drugs and quasi-drugs
The Korea Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association (KPMA) said that in line with the separati...
MOHW not to legislate limited human cloning prohibition
The MOHW reconfirmed to keep an opposite position against any legislation movement over the limited human cloning ban raised by an interested circle.
In the report meeting to the National Assembly Health and Welfar...
Safety Control Review Team to set up for biological preparations.
The KFDA set up the Safety Control Review Team for the biological products to ensure the safety and credibility of the biological preparations including vaccines and to supervise its manufacture, distribution, storage...
Domestic pharmaceutical companies to develop first generic versions of expired or ...
Domestic pharmaceutical companies to develop first generic versions of expired or soon-to-be-expired patent drugs
Pharmaceutical business sources say that the 2003 management strategy of the domestic pharmaceutical...
Magnolia extracts to develope for asthma treatment
Magnolia was known as excellent anti-asthmatic effects since long time and its extract has been developed under the code of NDC-052.
The Ministry of Science and Technology announced that NDC-052, the extract from M...
