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Few disease codes on physician's prescriptions.
The disease codes are provisionally required to show on every prescription but in reality found very few, which escalates pharmacies to experience difficulties in giving a good medication advice to patients.
The K...
President Kim of GSK Korea appointed top position for 6 Asian country control.President Kim Jin-ho of Glaxo Smithkline Korea has been promoted to the top executive position for 6 Asian country management including Thailand, Vietnam, 3 Indo-Chinese countri...
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Zuellig Pharma Korea to open Seoul drug distribution center
Zuellig Pharma Korea said it established its fifth regional drug distribution center at Kayang-dong of Seoul as part of expediting its same day delivery (SDD) system in Seoul, following the opening of the existing fou...
Drug price re-evaluation system to initially apply to 2,900 drugs
The Ministry of Health and Welfare is pushing to implement the drug price re-evaluation system from this December 1st after deliberating the matters of the Drug Assessment Committee by Health Insurance Policy Delibera...
Facility investment remarkably declined in listed drug companies.
In contrast to other industries listed in the public stock exchange market where their facility investments substantially increased this year, the listed drug companies spent the least facility investment according to...
Rules concerning bioequivalence test standards eased
The Korea Food and Drug Administration announced the drastically eased rules concerning bioequivalence test standards and drug equivalence test managements, salient points of which are as follows:
1) Bioequivalence...
Large-scale merger and acquisition eyed among small- and medium-sized wholesalers
Stimulated by the prevailing business recession, movement of pharmaceutical firms towards wholesaler's margin reduction, fierce competition and more strict administrative regulations on drug prices, small- and medium-...
Pharmacy unable to get advice fees without supportive data.
The NHI payment for medication advice fees raised by quite a number of pharmacy was rejected on account of no advice evidences on the dispensing records detected during the HIRA's field inspection.
According to Gy...
New government should permit OTCs sale at supermarket
With the presidential election about one month away, the medical circle called for three major presidential candidates to allow OTCs sale at supermarket.
In a recent forum on the preferred health care policies in t...
Korea will ban all human cloning with limited permission
The bioethics law defining the limited scope of embryonic stem cell (ESC) research for human cloning is likely to be legislated.
The Life, Ethics and Safety Measures bill, which hit snag by policy conflicts between...
