News About: Pharm. Affairs
Pharmacies to shun quasi-drugs
Pharmaceutical business sources say that many pharmacies has little interest in handling quasi-drugs due to their concentrated efforts to acquire more prescriptions, while quasi-drug makers are also shunning the pharm...
Poll of Korean people suggests pharmacist profession is less attractive
Korean people's preference for pharmacist as a profession is extremely low, a poll showed recently.
In an interview-based survey conducted on 2,514 people aged more than 15 during June and July of last year by the...
KPA contemplating to institutionalize supply of drug in smaller package
The Korea Pharmaceutical Association held its internal forum on the five outstanding pharmaceutical policies, while envisioning the establishment of a management rule concerning the smaller packing unit of drug in an ...
KPA to revive mandates for pharmacy space.
For the purpose of eliminating any prescription business collusion between medical institutions and pharmacies the Korea Pharmaceutical Association (KPA) is about to revive the former provisional requirement for the p...
Fresh pharmacists hardly get pharmacy jobs.
About 1,250 new pharmacists came in this year as well but hardly get the pharmacy jobs that used to provide higher salaries than any other works, largely because the pharmacy avoided to give job opportunities for them...
Asthma patients to avert use of inhalers
Domestic patients with asthma are found to avert the use of inhalers having better effect than oral preparations and its rational improvement should be sought, according to data released by the Korea Institute for Hea...
Hospital pharmacist society to register its corporate entity.
The Korea Pharmaceutical Association (KPA) accepted with a blitz the plans for the Korea Hospital Pharmacist Society (KHPS) to make its corporate entity in the directorate meeting on Mar. 17.
The KPA determined to ...
Legal advice for controversial rent pharmacies at clinic outlined
Business sources say that some pharmacists are increasingly seeking to exclusively occupy their pharmacy site at a clinic building.
Lawyer Ahn Jae-seok of Seoul District Bar Association said, " If a building owner...
Center for new natural and herbal drug development founded.
A research and development center for natural new crude drugs and herbal preparations was established at the promoting congress dated on Mar. 17 at the NIH, and Mr. Yoo Kook-hyun, President of Jeongwoo Pharm. Co. was ...
KPA to move campaign for prescriptions in generic names.
The Korea Pharmaceutical Association is going to move an aggressive campaign and publicity activities toward the people for legalizing the prescriptions written in generic drug names.
The KPA's Policy Planning Team...
