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Prescription oriented pharmacy to face slow business.
The pharmacy largely relying on the prescription business has faced with serious difficulties because the prescriptions for a long term medication became a declining trend in the issue at medical institutions. The gen...
KPA chairman to propose a self-cleansing body for eradication of drug related irregular activities
Chairman of the Korea Pharmaceutical Association Han Seck-won said in his press interview on May 20 that the Korea Doctors Association (KDA) should immediately stop their denunciation on pharmacists and instead, propo...
24 new drugs commercialized successfully since 1987
The Korea Drug Research Association (KDRA) says that a total of 24 R& D drug projects were successfully streamlined for the commercialization and technology transfer according to its report on the outcomes of R&D proj...
Smallpox and botulism re-designated as Group IV legal epidemics
The Ministry of Health and Welfare has recently announced that the number of legal epidemics belonging to Group IV, which will be subjected to the immediate establishment of anti-epidemic measures, is increased from 5...
New pharmacy to open at other store sites.
In order to avoid high pharmacy rental and goodwill payment when succeeding the existing pharmacy stores or establishing a new pharmacy at sites near medical institutions, a growing number of pharmacies are now taking...
Searle Korea plant in Hoengsung to close from July 1.
It is reported that the Hoengsung plant of G. D. Searle Korea would be closed down from July 1 this year.
An insider of Pharmacia said "The plant shut-down was under consideration from last year because two plants...
KMA to reiterate review on medical reform program.
The KMA (President: Shin Sang-jin) resumed the general meeting of the KMA representatives on May 18, which was aborted in April 27, and strongly urged to the government for an entire review of the current medical and ...
Pharmacists request for prescription checking fees.
The pharmacists association, the KPhA, proposed a compensation payment for their prescription checking to the MOHW, claiming that the fee should be included in their current dispensing fees by recalling the Article 23...
Drink vitamin C market contested by 20 domestic pharmaceutical firms
Business sources say that stimulated by the biggest sales of Vita 500 marketed by Kwangdong Pharm last year, the domestic drink vitamin C market has emerged as an arena of cur-throat competition among 20 domestic drug...
100% of surveyed medical institutions to issue two copies of prescription
The recent nationwide survey of 32 medical institutions conducted by the National Heath Care Industrial Labor Union (NHCILU) from April 23 to May 15 this year disclosed the following:
- Included in the survey were ...
