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Clinics avoiding the prescriptions of non-insurance drugs
The recent survey of 50 clinics conducted by the Solidarity for People's Health as Right for 6 days from April 20 through April 25, this year disclosed the following, in a bid to investigate their prescription behavio...
Prescription ratio of high-priced drugs in a higher level
In its recent data on the outcome after implementation of a new system of separating drug dispensing from medical practice (SDP function), the Ministry of Health and Welfare announced (MOHW) that the overall prescript...
5,310 drugs deleted from NHI reimbursement schedules.
The MOHW officially announced on May 1 that 5,310 drugs of no compliance to the drug efficacy equivalent tests until April 29 were eliminated from the NHI reimbursement plan but designated to convert them into the Non...
KFDA to call for the establishment of product liability task force
The Korea Food and Administration has recommended that a product liability (PL) center be established within the Korean Pharmaceutical Manufactures Association, in a bid to minimize the impact of the domestic pharmace...
Patent application for no smoking products on the rise.
The new products for smoking controls have shown an explosive popularity in the market these days largely owing to Comedian Lee Joo-il's "No smoking" campaign through the public mess media in connection with his own l...
Brisk generic drug exports for Japan predicted
With the expected revision of registration system of finished drugs into the public notice system within June or July, 2003 in Japan, market observers say that the Korea's drug exports for Japan seems likely to increa...
Intensive marketing strategies for renowned brand items eyed
Pharmaceutical industry sources say that the domestic leading drug makers are currently concentrating their marketing strategies on the maximization of their renowned brand images, so as to boost their shares of domes...
KMA's general meeting aborted due to failure of quorum.
The regular general meeting of the KMA has been aborted because of failure of the quorum.
The KMA tried to have the 54th general meeting at Hilton hotel on April 27 but failed because number of attendants was less ...
Bioventure firms to launch BT based products
Business sources say that a serious of products based on the biotechnology has been launched in the domestic market, and have further noted that:
- Ventri developed a special nutrition product Alcabas containing se...
Pharmaceutical technology trade on the rush.
The technology business transaction appeared with a brisk trend these days in the pharmaceutical area such as liver cancer drugs and in the bio-engineering fields as gene scanning know-how.
The Korea Health Industr...
