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Pharmacists to report in 15 days after employment.
A new pharmacist has to report his employment at the retail pharmacy to the HIRA with relevant documentations within 15 days after the employment according to Article 12, Paragraph 4 of the working rules of the NHI ac...
Top selling drugs kept its pace this year too.
90 top sellers sold by 37 drug companies as much as over 10 billion won still showed a sustained rising pace this year ensuing the past.
The data collected by Bestcare (Dec. last year and Jan/Feb this year) showed...
DPRS to reaffirm the implementation of incentive system in favor of low-priced drugs
The Drug Price Review Subcommittee under the Heath Insurance Policy Deliberation Council has recently reaffirmed the government plan to promote the use of low-priced drugs via an incentive system of granting to the me...
KDRA calls for various supportive measures for the timely development of new drugs
In the midst of the growing criticism from the domestic pharmaceutical industry over the government policy to discourage the prescription of high-priced drugs through incentive system, the Korea Drug Research Associat...
Establishment of new wholesale holding company eyed
In the recent press interview, representatives from four local firms Sungchang Pharm, Dongbu Pharm, Carebest, and SK Global - announced the establishment of a new wholesale holding company with a pure national capita...
Any hampering acts against medical reform program to block.
By a trial and error the medical and pharmacy role separation program has been fairly set up on the tract during the past 2 years, but still the business collusion between medical institutions and pharmacies and expen...
Pharmaceutical firms offering low drug prices favored
In parallel with the new incentive system on the use of the low-priced drugs to be implemented from this June, a number of large hospitals, which have suffered their management aggravation after implementation of a ne...
Active R&D-investment may guarantee better financial indicators of enterprises
Professor Cho Sung-pyo, department of business administration of Kyungbuk University, has analyzed the correlation between R&D investment and outcomes of the enterprises (e.g.: profitability, growth, productivity, and...
Medical struggle committee to be restored
It is very likely for the medical struggle committee to be restored its activities.
The suspension of their national level of strikes recently moved by the KMA executives rather provoked a hot rage to their members...
Electronic commerce to provide 6 month credit terms.
An electronic commerce company named Ahyah. com (www.ahyah.com) has successfully established an ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) system providing 6 months credit for the drug trade among the drug makers, wholesalers...