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KHIDI established ground works for clinical tests.
The Korea Health Industry Development Institute (KHIDI) has prepared a ground work for the future domestic clinical studies over overall health industrial products and drugs.
Following the strategic tie-up with th...
Domestic pharmaceutical industry to defy reductions of insurance drug prices via litigation
Business sources say the domestic pharmaceutical industry plans to file its first-ever administrative lawsuit for the withdraw of the proposed reduction of insurance drug prices (to be implemented on August 1) against...
Waiver of bioequivalence tests for 4,600 items eyed
The Korea Food and Administration (KFDA) announced some items whose bioequivalence tests are deemed to unnecessarily and impossibly undertaken may be replaced by the following tests: physicochemical equivalence tests,...
Prescription oriented pharmacy on slow sales due to world-cup.
The pharmacy communities along with the pharmaceutical companies actively took part in the 2002 Korea/Japan World Cup event with a variety of marketing and promotional campaign, expecting a special world-cup event bus...
Cardinal Health on the top of world drug wholesales
The IFPW(International Federation of Pharmaceutical Wholesalers) reported that Cardinal Health took the top with U$46 billion last year, then, McKessan the 2nd at U$41.1 billion and AmeriSource Bergen Corp. ...
Expansion of special medical care recipients eyed
The Ministry of Health and Welfare (MOHW) says it will further expand the scope of special medical care recipients from this July by mitigating the income and wealth criteria of supporters in the low income bracket fr...
Product Liability Center for pharmaceuticals set up.
The MOHW and the KPMA set up "Pharmaceutical PL Center" as a non-court arbitration organization to cope with the forthcoming enforcement of the PL Act. The Center may take care of a rapid and smooth resolution of any ...
Dispute on the insurance price of Glivec is still far from being settled
Even in the midst of the growing disaccords over the insurance prices of Glivec between civil organizations and Novartis Korea, both parties are still repeating their own claims and to make matters worse, the situatio...
Pharmacia Korea's labor union was back to their workplace on June 28
With the labor and the management of Pharmacia Korea settled on a wage increase on June 27, the labor union members, who went on their strike since May 15 due to the failure in a wage negotiation, were back to their b...
Unified content standards needs on nutritional supplements for children use
Since various components contained in the nutritional supplements for children in pharmacies exceed or lack the standard contents, unified content standards needs to be urgently established, according to the recent co...
