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Domestic pharmaceutical firms' strategic alliances with bioventure firms up
In his recent report, a researcher Kim Seok-kwan, Industry Renovation Research Unit of Science & Technology Policy Institute, says that under the circumstances where R&D outlays of the domestic pharmaceutical firms ha...
KPMA urged to reconsider the government's drug policy
The Korean Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association (KPMA) says that the government's drug policy to adopt the lowest insurance-covered drug price will affect badly the survival of the pharmaceutical industry and coll...
Product to be cancelled when trade report violation.
The drug makers and wholesalers have to report their trade records dealt between April and June 30 until coming July. In otherwise or for false reports the penalty will be imposed to drug makers with product cancellat...
Animated export of 7-ACA
Stimulated by the increased unit price of 7-ACA at $120/kg in the foreign countries, the major domestic bulk exporters, including Chong Kun Dang Bio and Cheil Jedang, have recovered their international competitiveness...
Revision of Biotechnology Promotion Law eyed
The Ministry of Science and Technology has announced it will draft within this year a revision for Biotechnology Promotion Law enacted in 1983, in a bid to implement more efficient biotechnology related policy.
The...
Whanin singed with Denish Lundbeck for business association.
Whanin pharmaceutical co. (President: Kim Keung-lim) made a business tie-up with Lundbeck, a Denish pharmaceutical company, on April 4 in their auditorium hall for the introduction of new psychotropic drugs into the m...
NHI drug prices to be slashed as planned.
In an attempt to save 200 to 300 billion won of NHI fund the government plan for a massive price reduction of NHI drugs has been surfaced. Given this situation the drug industry is now in deep contemplation about the ...
Production of generic products declined
Now that the Ministry of Health and Welfare (MOHW) plans to exclude non-bioequivalence test drugs from the list of insurance covered drugs from May 1, many pharmaceutical firms are pushing forward the products with ma...
KHA to ensure the transparence of hospital management
The Korean Hospital Association (KHA) has announced that a serious of measures will be adopted to ensure the hospital management by observing a hospital account rule, thus minimizing some disadvantages in their negoti...
KPA calls for confidential informations to protect.
The KPA strongly asked the government to prepare the appropriate measures for which many confidential informations related with physicians prescriptions and dispensing including their diseases or medication histories ...
