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Tonic drink for patients permitted to sell at pharmacies.
The MOHW interpreted it as lawful for pharmacies to sell tonic drinks to patients who are awaiting for the prescription filling when a civilian raised the question. The MOHW said that the pharmacy may provide a conven...
NHI price inspection proceeded unprincipled.
Many opinions claimed that the post supervisory activities conducted periodically by the MOHW, the KFDA and the HIRA especially over the NHI drug pricing in the markets showed unprincipled, causing a lot of disadvanta...
BMS Korea ranks high in unemployment rate
With the life-long employment concept becoming withered, BMS Korea is now emerging as one of the most favored pharmaceutical firm, while showing a lower unemployment rate of 6.0%.
The company notes that such low u...
Non-insurance drugs to be included in prescription records
In response to a recently raised question on the dispensing records of prescription by a regional chapter of the Korea Pharmaceutical Association, the Ministry of Health Welfare (MOHW) explained that a pharmacist shou...
Presentation of Common Prescription Drug Lists to request again.
The Korea Pharmaceutical associations (KPA) strongly suggested to the candidates for the June 13 local government elections, focusing on the local health and medical system and its related policies that included the ...
29,313 pharmacists working for NHI service.
According to the statistics reported by the Health Insurance Review Agency (Chief commissioner: Dr. Shin Young-soo), the total number of pharmacists working for the NHI service institutes showed 29,313 as of the end o...
Foreign invested firms turn down KPMA's recent demand to vow the observance of fair trade code
Pharmaceutical industry sources say that there remains a serious disaccord between the Korea Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association (KPMA) and foreign invested pharmaceutical firms, since the latter flatly rejected ...
Zuellig at pains to avert a major problem ahead
Since the settlement of one-day strike for wage increase in Zuellig Pharma Korea, the outsourcing pharmaceutical firms with all attentions to watch the development of the situation, has heaved a sigh of relief due to ...
Special inspection on vaccine manufacturers.
The KFDA plans to take a special inspection over 6 vaccine manufacturers producing Japanese encephalitis virus vaccine and DPT mainly focusing on the GMP compliance to the biological preparations and other compliances...
Mounting public awareness on doctor's prescription by generic name
The nationwide campaign to collect signatures for a petition of doctor's prescription by generic name, which has been initially promoted by two regional chapters of the Korean Pharmaceutical Association (KPA), has att...
