News About: Pharm. Affairs
Number of pharmacies up
The Health Insurance Review Agency says that as of the end of 2003 there were a total of 19,262 pharmacies, up 535 compared with 18,727 from a year earlier.
Number of pharmacies had showed steadily decreasing...
Cosmetic business 30% up in retail pharmacy market.
L'Oreal Bisch, a professional cosmetic company for the retail pharmacy market, reported 30% of the sales growth in 2003, making about 60 billion won worth of new cosmetic markets.
The retail pharmacy occupied merel...
Prescription preservation at pharmacies in heavy burdens.
The preservation of physician's prescriptions at pharmacies have become one of the most troublesome issues to pharmacies during the past 4 years since the implementation of the medical and pharmacy role separation pro...
Out-of-pocket money in patients with difficult-to-treat diseases to be reduced from this February
The Ministry of Health and Welfare announced recently revised terms for health insurance allowance under which the individual medical costs in outpatients with 62 diseases including Parkinson's disease, myocardial dis...
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Pharmacist groups harshly requesting common prescription drug list.
Seoul Pharmaceutical Association's Medical and Pharmacy Separation Policy Team took a meeting on Jan. 7 and decided a strong demand to the MOHW for the physician's submission of the common prescription drug list pursu...
Forceful pharmacy spot inspection to be suspended.
The Korea Pharmaceutical Association (KPA) asked for the MOHW immediately to suspend the forceful spot inspection against pharmacies.
Recently a pharmacist committed suicide because he was penalized on charge of i...
Natural aromatherapy products emerging as promising items in pharmacy marketWith the recent tend that young people, known as well-being group, seek their better health and comfortable life is evolving as new consumer group, natural aromatherapy makers a...
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HIRA to authorize Withpharm's pharmacy administration software.
Withpharm announced on Dec. 27 that the pharmacy administration software was officially approved by the Health Insurance Review Agency on Dec. 22.
The software program contains not only the HIRA's reviewing points...
100 substandard drugs from 80 pharmaceutical makers are still marketed
100 substandard drugs from 80 pharmaceutical makers and/or illegal selling of over-the-counter drugs in cyber malls were being still rampant during the twelve months to December 20 this year, according to a re...
