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Wholesaling business circle calls for abolition of regulations involving subdivision sales of drug
The domestic drug wholesalers say the current regulations pertaining to the subdivision sales of drugs should be abolished in terms of drug safety.
The domestic wholesaling industry has maintained that in situation...
Drug industry to visualize R&D investment for Chinese market.
20 leading pharmaceutical companies have visualized their business entry into China including R&D plans in association with NHTP, a Chinese national class of health and science industrial park.
The Korea New Drug D...
Civic group unsatisfied with government's price slash of drugs.
The civic group deeply regretted the earlier government's price slash of NHI drugs by 7.2% on average, therefore strongly calling for the government to adopt other fundamental measures including the price bidding syst...
Quasi-drug category to be broadly defined.
The KFDA intends to widen the scope of quasi-drug category especially for the non-medical and health related products.
The KFDA said that many health related products are being sold by an exaggerate advertising thr...
Korea should promote incessant development of herbal medicines towards potential OTC formulations
In the midst where many countries are greatly endeavoring to develop herbal medicines for the expansion of OTC drugs, Korea has witnessed little progress in the related herbal medicine sector due to conflict of intere...
Thorough management of drug prices are emerging in the domestic pharmaceutical industry
Pharmaceutical business sources say that it is necessary for pharmaceutical firms to make thorough management of drug prices in advance, so as to cope with a series of the government's drug-related policies designed t...
Oppositions of medical institutions up sharply
The Health Insurance Review Agency (HIRA) says that the oppositions of medical institutions over their screening results of reimbursed pharmaceuticals amounted to 1,086,000 cases as of September this year, up ...
Tamiflu getting big popularity
Recently, many experts in European countries have warned the possible outbreak of the most toxic flu which may claim many people's lives.
The National Institute of Health in Korea has been on the alert for flu, say...
Basic frameworks of current medical/pharmacy system unchanged.
Mr. Lee Hoi-chang, the president candidate of the GNP confirmed that the basic frameworks of the current medical and pharmacy role separation system would be kept unchanged while other problematic points should be sup...
Pharmaceutical industry calls for reconsideration of drug-related polices
Pharmaceutical business say that there are mounting discontents over the government's arbitrary drug-related polices designed to sacrifice the domestic pharmaceutical industry through a series of reduction in drug pri...
