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Pharmacy proprietors prohibited to run other business.
In an official answer to the recent civilian inquiry over the pharmacist's duplicate business jobs the MOHW replied that a pharmacy proprietor shall not run other business nor take part in a corporation as an executiv...
Output of leading 100 pharmaceutical firms up 9.01 percent in 2001
According to data compiled by the Korea Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association, the combined output of the 100 major pharmaceutical firms last year amounted to 7.36 trillion won, up 9.01 percent over 0.02 percent in...
Pfizer and Pharmacia agreed in US$60 billion stock deal
Another big deal was recently made available, one year after the M&A deal between Glaxo Wellcome and SmithKline Beecham.
The Wall Street Journal reported on July 15 that Pfizer Inc. has agreed to buy Pharmacia Corp...
Health and Welfare Committee on action from July 18.
The Health and Welfare Committee plans to have a standing committee's meeting on July 18 to resume their main activities, after electing the responsible secretary general respectively from the GNP and the MDP includin...
10 billion won funded for critical disease treatment.
Samsung Life Insurance announced to raise about 10 billion won of funds to support 3 public institutions including the National Cancer Center for 3 years to come in order to fight against the fatal diseases like cance...
Zuellig Pharma Korea to open Pusan distribution center
Zuellig Pharma Korea announced it would open its regional distibution center at Jangrim of Pusan on July 16, in a bid to cover all drug orders made by the pharmacies in Pusan and Ulsan on a same day delivery (SDD) bas...
Banks to lure pharmacists with various loan products
Influenced by a low interest rate and the ongoing system of separating drug dispensing from medical practice, a variety of new bank loan products for pharmacists are inundating and thus, it is expected that be...
Some colleges of pharmacy to abolish the curriculums for oriental medicines
For the past several years, some colleges of pharmacy have reduced or abolished the curriculums of oriental drugs, such as pharmacognosy, galanicals and medical botanics during their re-editing of curriculums,...
Win-Win strategic alliances between domestic firms and foreign-invested firms eyed
Market observers says that the win-win strategic alliances between domestic firms and foreign-investment firms need to be further strengthened for co-marketing and/or co-development of new drugs to effectively minimiz...
Entertaining physicians for sales promotion to be restrictive.
According to yakup.com survey over the marketing promotional entertainment for physicians from June 29 to July 11, about 603 respondents (49.9%) out of the total inquiries through the website indicated that any entert...
