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Pharmacy needs food supplement products with moderate prices.
Most of pharmacy franchise companies already introduced their strategic commodities with so called "Private Branded (PB)" products into the market for their member pharmacies to increase revenues, but recently found o...
National/public and private hospitals differ on purchase pattern of drugs
A recent study has shown that a great majority of national/public hospitals in Korea think that their top priority of selecting a drug is placed on its quality while private hospitals on its price, revealing the local...
KPA to fix 8 to 9 % NHI reimbursement price increase.
While Minister Kim of the MOHW intended to raise the NHI reimbursement price for the next year by 3% over this year, the Korea Pharmaceutical Association indicated at least 8 to 9% rise in the wake of keeping their co...
Final plan for standard 6 year pharmacy school curricula.
The Pharmacy Education Research Committee (Chief commissioner: Kwon Soon-kyeong) of the Korea Pharmacy School Professor Association (KPSPA) announced on Oct. 28 during the 2nd meeting that the final draft for the stan...
Drugstores in domestic pharmacy sector in spotlight
Stimulated by the recent ground-breaking ceremony of a new economic free zone in Incheon that will attract foreign-invested corporate pharmacies and imminent opening of domestic pharmaceutical market to foreign compet...
Account settlement for returned goods still unsolved.
The account settlement for the returned goods at 24 regional pharmacist associations in Seoul area still remained unsolved, calling for an earlier counter measure.
In fact, the Seoul Pharmaceutical Association repo...
Better production, distribution and dispensing slogan on Medicine Day.
A "Medicine Day" seems to be restored since 30 years and the 3 day commemoration of which will be scheduled from Oct. 10 to 12 and declared under the main theme of "Good medicine is a new hope" during the 17th anniver...
Pharmacies to seek herbal drug booming and popularization.
The Herbal Dispensing Pharmacist Association (HDPA) planned a massive lecture program for herbal drugs and medicine for 2 months from Oct. 18 to Dec. 6, giving lessons on every Saturday at the 7th floor of the Seoul P...
Price disparities of popular OTC drugs at pharmacies getting narrowed.
Popular OTC drug prices were found not much different at different pharmacies, which may give a good impression to consumers in pricing credibility.
According to "2003 popular OTC drug price survey project" of the ...
Formation of Pharmacy College Research Committee eyed, KPPF saysThe Korea Pharmacy Professor Federation said that in order to push for implementing the proposed six-year education system of pharmacy college by 2006, a Pharmacy College Resear...
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