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Lack of dialogues between doctor and patient may aggravate pain
The arthritis action group (AAG) reported in the recently held annual meeting of Europe Rheumatoid Association that some of arthritis patients in European countries have suffered various pains and side effects due to ...
Novartis Korea to reach the final agreement on Glivec's insurance price
Novartis Korea said it will endeavor to reach a final pricing agreement of a novel anticancer therapy 'Glivec' with the Ministry of Health and Welfare (MOHW) based on the domestic insurance calculation criteria, in li...
Separation of drug dispensing from medical practice analyzed
Pharmaceutical industry sources say that the current system of separating drug dispensing from medical practice (SDP function) still needs to be further ameliorated, since the proprietors of pharmacies are still engag...
MOST to strengthen BT business cooperations with America and Canada
Deputy Minister Yu Hee-yul of the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) will have a field trip to the United States and Canada from July 2 to 8 to discuss science and technology cooperations in the bio-engineering...
Split-off of LGCI into two units eyed
LGCI held its May 27 special shareholder meeting at Twintower of Yoido and resolved to separate its lifescience business.
To that end, LGCI is working to take some necessary procedures and it will be separated into...
"Bio Strategy Council" set up under the President.
The Ministry of Commerce and Energy (MOCE) announced in the meeting under the presence of the bio related industry, academy and research representatives at the World Trade Center on June 27 that the bio related techno...
The first National Technology Renovation Map plan in the pharmaceutical and health arenas
The government has recently mapped out the National Technology Renovation Map plan in the pharmaceutical and health sectors as the first phase and will seek ways of stepping up support for improving the R&D new drug p...
Subsequent reductions in insurance prices irritate the domestic pharmaceutical industry
Pharmaceutical industry observers say that many domestic pharmaceutical firms, which have been heavily dependent on the exclusive wholesaling business due to their fragile distribution structure in the regional areas,...
Drugs supplying to pharmacies at far higher than NHI prices.
Some foreign drug companies were found supplying their products to retail pharmacies at far higher than NHI prices, which gave quite a business damage to the pharmacy management.
According to a pharmacy source, it ...
9.14% additional price slash against 776 NHI drugs.
The MOHW intended to turn down the drug price additionally by 9.14% against 776 NHI drugs taking effect from July 1, but its enforcement time has not been determined due to different opinions postured by the KPhA.
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