News About: Pharm. Affairs
Pharmacist community opposing to lengthen HIRA's bill review times.
The Seoul Pharmacist Association, the medical and pharmacy separation committee expressed an official opposition to the HIRA's review times for the dispensing bills, which was attempting to extend currently from 15 da...
Retail pharmacy on alert to 5 year prescription preservation.
Most of retail pharmacies have not complied to keep the prescription sheets for 5 years that was provisionally required, which, eventually provoking a lot of confusions to the pharmacy circle.
According to Article...
Prescription-based pharmacy management is no longer viable
Following the government's sustained cutbacks of medical treatment charges and introduction of tapering system on drug dispensing charges, the overall management deterioration of pharmacy is more pronouncing a...
Number of medical institution up
Amid protracted pharmaceutical business slowdown, the overall number of medical institutions increased 4.2 percent from 64,166 in May last year to 66,829 in August this years, according to tallies released by ...
What to do with business collusion and substituted dispensing
The medical and pharmacy separation policy team of the Seoul pharmaceutical association (head: Kwon Tae-jeong) took a subcommittee's meeting on June 6 and decided to have a workshop over the current pharmaceutical aff...
Use of herbal ingredients in health foods in debate
As the Health Foods Law will become effective from August 26 this year, the Herbal Pharmacology Professors Federation held its urgent meeting on June 4 at Sookmyung Women's University and decided to conduct its own to...
KPA to place public campaign for OTC drug use.
"Let's correctly know about OTC drugs" is the headline of the campaign for the Korea Pharmaceutical Association to put for the appropriate OTC drug uses.
The KPA's Pharmacy Guidance Council announced that the camp...
College professors to oppose crude herbal drugs for health-foods.
The Pharmacognosy Professors Association took an urgent meeting at Sukmyung Univ. on June 4 and discussed crude herbal drugs to be used as a health functional food. They made it clear that 152 herbal drugs listed in t...
HRT more benefits than risks
The Korea Society of Menopause (KSOM) announced that the hormone replacement therapy (HRT) for the treatment and prevention of menopause syndrome and osteoporosis exhibited far more benefits than risks.
The KSOM ...
Pharmacists urged to display drugs separately from items other than drugs
Pharmacy sources say that although the Pharmaceutical Affairs Law does not permit any display of drugs with quasi-drugs or foods under more stringent administrative dispositions, the mixed display is still rampant und...
