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Prescriptions in domestic generic drugs on the rise.
The medical institutions have issued a growing number of prescriptions for more domestic generic drugs instead of expensive foreign branded since the former minister Lee Tae-bok' position change scandal that raised a ...
Arbitration-based non-exclusive license on Glivec eyed
The arbitration-based non-exclusive license (ANEL) on Glivec is now emerging as a hot issue, amid the prolonged showdown on its pricing among the interested parties.
According to the Joint Countermeasure Committee ...
Zeullig and associated wholesalers in deep conflicts.
A foreign multinational drug wholesale company, Zuellig Korea, and its associated wholesalers were recently conflictive because of the problems caused by the squeezed rates of distribution margins and over pushing sal...
KFDA to wipe out false or exaggerated drug ads
The Korea Food and Drug Administration (KFDA) has unveiled on August 14 its comprehensive measures designed to stamp out false or exaggerated drug advertisements in a joint collaboration with regional KFDA agencies wi...
Silkworm-containing health foods market contested by three domestic pharmaceutical firms
Business sources say that the domestic silkworm-containing health foods market has emerged as an arena of tripartite competition - Keuhwha Pharm's Nuegra, Dongsung Pharm's Power Nuesaengryuk, and Union Korea's Anigra ...
More activation of bioequivalence testand substitute dispensing eyed
The Ministry of Health and Welfare and KFDA are contemplating to find ways of activating substitute dispensing by attracting a number of the domestic pharmaceutical firms in bioequivalence test.
(1) Bioequivalence ...
Indian companies likely to supply Gleevec.
The Chronic Leukemia Patient Association and the Joint Committee for Gleevec Issue are trying to produce Gleevec in association with foreign pharmaceutical company.
According to the Joint Committee, the represent...
Mutual mixing cases of Pfizer Korea's Cardura tab. and Cofreltab. discovered
The Korea Food and Drug Administration (KFDA) has recently announced it destroyed all of the collected quantities associated with the package-mixed Cardura (doxazosin mesylate) tab.andCofrel (benproperine phosphate) t...
Provisions for prescription in generic names to raise legislation.
The Seoul Pharmaceutical Association announced on Aug. 13 to raise a bill for the prescriptions to be written in generic drug names during the plenary session of the National Assembly in Sept.
To this end the Assoc...
Direct operation of pharmacies by some wholesalers to be stamped out
Chairman Chun Young-koo, the Seoul chapter of the Korea Pharmaceutical Association, said on August 13 that he would concentrate his every effort on discovering some illegal pharmacies directly operated by wholesalers ...
