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Large pharmacies mulling over drug store business.
It is very likely that by the end of this year about 10 large drug stores may be opened as a business diversification of large pharmacies according to the ethical oriental pharmacy business source.
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Essential drugs to supply for typhoon damaged areas.
The pharmaceutical communities including the drug company, pharmacist association and drug wholesalers intensified supplying drugs at right time to the recent typhoon damaged areas in order to help disaster victims in...
Plans of extending pharmacy college education term are mostly favored
The Korea Pharmaceutical Association (KPA), which has recently conducted its broad surveys on the plans of extending pharmacy college education term up to six years, disclosed the first survey results submitted by the...
False medical bills found largely in nighttime treatments
Most of the night time medical treatments were found to bill false or irregular by transferring day care patients into night cares.
Rep. Yoon Yeo-joon of GNP checked the medical bills at the NHIC and found that abo...
KFDA keen on safety profiles of drugs at home and abroad
The Korea Food and Drug Administration will conduct its on-spot inspection on serum-derived material importers to ensure the importation of safety-proven albumin materials. To that end, an investigation team consistin...
Fine of 50 million won levied to Pfizer Korea
The Korea Food and Drug Administration (KFDA) announced on September 9 its administrative disposition against the violation of Pfizer Korea which committed the mutually mixing package accident of both Cardura tab. (do...
Lilly Korea raises some questions over VA drug guideline
In line with the drug guideline released by the U.S. Veterans Affairs Medical Center that Zyprexa (olanzapine), an anti-psychotic medication, should be designated as the third-line drug, Lilly Korea has complained abo...
Medical practitioners allowed to advertise their career and activities.
A public advertising for medical practitioners such as practitioner's career history, number of surgical operations or utility rates of their hospital beds etc. seems to be permitted from April next year in order that...
Overheated sales in eye preparations
With the rapid spread of conjunctivitis, called in Korea the "Apollo eye disease", some pharmaceutical firms are boasting their full operation ratio in factory to meet the domestic demand for ophthalmic agents in situ...
KPA keeping silent on juridical Hospital Pharmacy Association move.
President Han Seok-won of the KPA did not make any confirmation nor denial on Sept. 2 over which the Korea Hospital Pharmacy Association with about 1,500 members was trying to set the body under a juridical entity.
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