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Management of hospital-neighing pharmacies hits snag
Pharmaceutical business sources say that the management of pharmacy near at hospitals has become aggravated due to dwindling number of doctor's prescription, amid new establishment of pharmacies and dispersed prescrip...
Substitutive dispensing must precede Reference Pricing system.
A civic group claimed that the Reference Pricing system should not be forcefully implemented unless the substitutive dispensing be preceded.
The Solidarity for People's Health as Right (SPHR) pointed out in their s...
"Shop-in-shop" within pharmacy gains big popularity
At least three or four shops are likely to be additionally established within more than mid-sized pharmacy, business observers say.
Major pharmacy chains including Onnuri Health, Withpharm and SK plan to promote th...
Foreigner's pharmacy to allow in economic special zone.
The government finally concluded the draft of the bill regarding the Economic Special Zone Act in the state council's meeting on Oct. 15 and will transmit it to the National Assembly during the plenary session, coveri...
Domestic pharmaceutical industry faces business downturn
Pharmaceutical sources say domestic pharmaceutical firms since the latter half of this year, the domestic pharmaceutical industry has experienced serious business setbacks and their restructuring programs are underway...
4 in 10 cancer patients survive over 5 years in Korea.
The recent MOHW statistics revealed that 4 in 10 patients who were diagnosed as cancer in 1995 found alive over 5 years, which traced 59,602 patients until 2001. The data was compiled from the National Statistical Off...
Handok to launch Teveten, an anti-hypertension drug.Handok announced on Oct. 15 to launch Teveten, an anti-hypertensive drug (Eprosartan) originally developed by Solvay, a Belgium company.
Teveten is a new alpha receptor block...
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Medical and pharmaceutical circles decided to seek compromise
The Korean Practitioners Association (KPA) and The Seoul Pharmaceutical Association (SPA) exchanged a written agreement at Palace Hotel on October 15, to this effect that the mutual lawsuits and accusations related to...
Health ministry goes forward with new drug plan
The Ministry of Health and Welfare (MOHW) is pushing to implement a new reference price system (RPS) by the end of this year after holding public hearings and discussing the matter with related parties, including civi...
Regulation concerning subdivided sale of drugs should be deleted
Which is the top priority in the matter of drug, supply or safety?
The domestic wholesaling industry has strongly called for the abolition of a regulation concerning the subdivided sale of drugs that is stipulated ...
