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Drug wholesalers expressing dissatisfaction over discontinuation of money-collection discount
Now that some pharmaceutical firms have frequently reduced a drug wholesaler's margin and even discontinued the offering of special discounts during payment collection from the drug wholesaler, the wholesaling industr...
Bio-equivalency tested drug promptly to review its NHI price.
The MOHW instructed to the Health Insurance Review Agency (HIRA) recently that the national health insurance (NHI) price authorization should be made far quickly for the drug of which its bio-equivalency test was comp...
Frequent changes in company names of multinationals confuse domestic medical providers
The renowned company names of some multinationals in Korea, such as Upjohn Korea, Searle-Ciba Geigy Korea, Rhone-Poulene Rorer Korea, and Sandoz Korea, have been changed and disappeared.
Pharmaceutical business so...
Recovery of cognitive function may be essential in patients with psychosis
"Patients with psychosis may be normally engaged in the social activities through better enhancement of their cognitive functions associated with their accurate recognition and behaviors in the surroundings," said Pro...
Constitutional court to decide establishment possibility of corporate pharmacy.
For the lawsuit raised by Hyungwhagil Dongboryong pharmacy appealing that Article 16, Paragraph 1 of the current Pharmaceutical Affairs Act, prohibiting a corporate pharmacy to manage a pharmacy, infringes the constit...
Foreign-invested pharmaceutical firms remain concerned about successive cost cutting measures
In parallel with a series of the government measures aimed at reducing pharmaceutical spending for better finance stability in the National Health Insurance Corp., including a drug price re-evaluation system, a minimu...
Rapidly emerging field of bioinformatics
Since bioinformatics is the field of science in which biology, computer science, and information technology merge to form a single discipline, it is predicted that the field of bioinformatics will serve as a scaffold ...
New Drug Research Center by therapeutic groups to be appointed.
To upgrade the domestic pharmaceutical industry as a 21th century leading industry, the government put an inducement policy for all different pharmaceutical companies to set up a new drug research center specified by ...
Dual western and oriental treatments available in a medical institution only
In a recent reply to a civil petition, the Ministry of Health and Welfare said that a person having a dual license of doctor and oriental doctor can provide his/her western and oriental treatment for patients in a med...
6 year school system for pharmacy education to launch in 2007.
An atmosphere shows very positively that the pharmacy school seems to extend its education year currently from 4 into 6 starting from year 2007
The Special Commission for Pharmaceutical System Reform and Health and...
