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Drug advertising to build its credibility grounds.
The KPMA launched so called Drug Advertising Preview System in Feb. 1989 for the purpose of enhancing the credibility of drug advertising, and now it seems to be soft landed, viewing that in the past 700 preview meeti...
Drafting of Medical Dispute Mediation Law is facing rough going
The Medical and Pharmaceutical Special Committee (MPSC) held the 3rd meeting to examine the medical dispute mediation bill at the Korea Institute of Health and Social Affairs on October 10 but failed to reach an agree...
Hot public criticism on medical professor's disciplinary measure.
The Korea Medical Association (KMA) declared a KMA membership disqualification measure to professor Kim Yong-ik of Seoul National University College of Medicine and Prof. Cho Hung-joon of Ulsan Medical School for 2 an...
Domestic pharmaceutical industry is at risk
Amid the domestic pharmaceutical industry's concerns over the repeated cuts in insurance drug prices following the government ex post facto drug management, the new reimbursement price re-evaluation system aiming at r...
Penicillins: most antibiotic resistant.
The antibiotic resistance has shown the top with Penicillins by 93.7% out of whole antibiotics according to the monitoring data collected and reported by the KFDA. After then, Erythromycin showed 32.7%, Tetracycline 1...
Description error in most of physician's prescription mistakes.
More than a half of physician's prescriptions have been found with description errors according to a survey conducted and reported by Mr. Choi Kyung-up, the chief pharmacist of Samsung Seoul Medical Center on Oct. 8 i...
Two medical professors reprimanded due to deep involvement in drafting SDP function
The ethics committee of the Korean Doctors Association decided on October 9 to suspend the qualifications for KDA's membership of professor Kim Yong-ik, Seoul Medical College and professor Cho Hong-joon, Ulsan Medical...
Pharmacy-oriented cosmetics market contested by three firms
Pharmaceutical business sources say that a major change in the domestic pharmacy-oriented cosmetics market is in the marking inasmuch as Yuhan Corp. is pushing ahead with aggressive marketing offensive and thus, this ...
Enterobacter species discovered in gallamine injection
The National Institute of Scientific Investigation (NISI) announced it discovered E. cloacae, one of enterobacter species, in gallamine injection (lot No. H005) indicated for muscle relaxation through its chemical ana...
Majority pharmacists accepted government's medical reform program.
According to the interim questionnaire survey reported by the Korea Pharmaceutical Association during the symposium on Oct. 8 titled "Symposium for stable settlement of the medical and pharmacy role separation program...
