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Completion of drug information management system eyed by 2007
The ministry of Health and Welfare (MOHW) says the plan for drug information management system by the year 2007 is being promoted by investing 65.8 billion won of government for five years, and DUR (drug utilization r...
Biannual FAPA convention in Seoul closed
The biannual FAPA convention in Seoul was successfully closed on October 8 after a four-day session with a theme "Effective treatment for patients through pharmacy".
The FAPA committee decided to hold the 20th conv...
Public health centers suffering shortage of profession personnel
In his report announced prior to the recent parliamentary inspection on October 2, Rep. Choi Young-hee of the minority Millennium Democratic Party (MDP) asserted that the public health centers have suffered a shortage...
Reliability on bioequivalence test to be strengthened
The Korea Food and Drug Administration (KFDA) said that although it allows the corresponding pharmaceutical firms to perform the bioequivalence tests using their existing labs and personnel in a bid to promote the tes...
Patent dispute over EPO is still underway
In the recent patent dispute filed by Genetics Institute (GI) that Cheil Jedang's Epokine (erithropoietin), which was developed by the latter's own technology for the third time in the world, had infringed the former'...
Nam Soo-ja nominated to president after next-president of FAPA.
Ms. Nam Soo-ja, the chief commissioner of KPA's International Committee, was nominated to be the president from 2006 after the next president of FAPA (2002-2006) in an open competitive election at the FAPA directorate...
Illegal drug uses at medical institutions in serious problems.
A massive number of illegal drug uses at medical institutions was detected recently in the joint inspection conducted by the Daejon district KFDA in cooperation with Daejon city and Choongnam province from Sept. 2 to ...
License-cancelled drugs are still in the insurance-covered list
Rep. Choi Young-hee of the minority Millennium Democratic Party (MDP) said during the recent parliamentary inspection on October 4 that of 136 drugs which were deemed inappropriate by the quality control t...
Grand opening of Seoul FAPA congress.The 19th congress of the Federation of Asian Pharmaceutical Association (FAPA) took its grand opening ceremony at the International Convention Center in Seoul on Oct. 5 under th...
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FAPA to adopt 10-point Seoul Declaration as detailed action plans of Asian pharmacists
The 19th FAPA (Federation of Asian Pharmaceutical Association) convention, to be held October 5th-8th in Seoul, had a scientific symposium on October 6 with the presentation of six theses and during the symposium, par...
