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Dispensing expenditures per pharmacy at 129 million won.
During the first half of this year the medication expenditure per pharmacy accounted 129 million won on average according to the HIRA information.
The total medication expenditures amounted to 8,401 billion...
Special inspection to clinics/hospitals of no drug list submission.
The deadline for the medical institutes to submit provisionally required common prescription drug lists to each regional medical association has only 10 more days to go, but the record so far showed that quite a numbe...
NHI payment for dental disorders predominated.
The 2000 NHI payment data presented to Rep. Kim Tae-hong by the HIRA showed that the top payment was for the dental disorders in the amount of 198,852,130,000 won. of which the dental plaque ranked the 4th (...
Daewoong to launch Easyet product in Sept.
Easyef, topical liquid agent for diabetic foot ulcer therapy, has been launched to the commercial market, which was the 2nd new drug in Korea and the first bio-engineering drug in Korea.
Daewoong took a commercial ...
The Emergency Committee Delays Submission of List of Prescription Medicines
It was learned that the medical society cannot submit the list of prescription medicines which was scheduled to be delivered to regional pharmaceutical associations by the 12th.
The Emergency Committee of the Ko...
Requested various choice of items at selection of prescription medicine.
Responding to the medical society's preparation of a list of prescription medicines, the Korea Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association (KPMA) called for the selection of a wide range of medicines for the continued an...
Cosmetics Sales in Pharmacies Increase in First Half
Sales of cosmetics exclusively available at pharmacies have increased in the first half of 2001 compared to the same period last year.
Sales of cosmetics in pharmacies had wavered early this year as a result of c...
Reference price system unable to implement before end of this year.
The reference price system applying to the medical insurance drugs seems hardly to enforce as planned since the MOHW kept holding its implementation from July until a national consensus being secured through the publi...
Bio-equivalent test to perform at 85 institutes.
85 institutes including the medical and pharmacy schools may conduct the bio-equivalent test.
The KFDA earlier announced to take the test for 400 drugs every year to provide more chances for substitutive dispensing...
Comparative Advertising Will Lead to Customer Disbelief
In response to the announcement made by the Korea Fair Trade Commission that they would permit advertisements comparing competing goods, pharmaceutical manufacturers opposed the plan, saying that unlike general mercha...
