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Ten Groups to Refuse Handling of Medical Supplies in Which Zuellig Is Involved
Ten pharmaceutical associations including Pusan have adopted a joint statement calling for the correction of Zuellig's unfair business practices.
The 10 chairmen of pharmaceutical associations from various cities ...
Registration for ophthalmics shifted to Report system.
The drug registration system applicable to ophthalmic, oral and spray type of nasal remedies and topical hemorrhoids will be changed to so called a Report system.
The KFDA set up a normal manufacturing standards fo...
Common Prescription Drug List to submit by Sept. 24.
The district KMA has to prepare and present the Common Prescription Drug List to the KPhA in the region until Sept. 24.
The pharmacy established a pathway connecting with a medical institute shall shut down until ...
Drug Industry sensitively alert to determination of common prescription drugs.
As the medical communities put a spurt on determination of the Common Prescription Drug List by city, county and ward, the drug industries, wholesalers and retailers were sensitively alert to its progress and to prepa...
Medical Society Not Content with DRG Payment System
The medical community has made a stand opposing the DRG Payment System being pushed by the Government and began to take countermeasures.
The executive directors of insurance of the Korean Medical Association and th...
EMC urged health minister to revise the law
The Emergency Measures Committee to protect wholesalers' rights (EMC·Anti-Zuellig Committee) had an interview with Kim, Won-gil, the Health and Welfare Minister, at 3:30 p.m. on the first of August. Explaining the cu...
Public Attention to Rumor About Planned Resignation of KWA chairman
The industry is being unsettled by a rumor that Korea Wholesale Association (KWA) Chairman Lee Hee-Ku would step down. Mr. Lee had gone on a hunger strike for eight days which began on July 25 in an effort to unify th...
Converting to stock holding company found successful.
The new management plans converting to a stock holding company from the conventional business structure attempted by some local corporations seem to make a success at an initial phase. Green Cross and LGCI launched a ...
Bayer Suspends Sale of Baycol, Cholesterol Lowering Drug
Bayer Korea announced on August 9 that the sale of its cholesterol lowering drug Baycol, which was placed on sale back in November 1999, was suspended in Korea.
The decision to halt the sale of Baycol, issued from ...
Novartis Offers Glivec for Free
Novartis Korea has attracted considerable attention for their proposal to the Ministry of Health and Welfare to distribute free Glivec, a drug for treating chronic marrow type of leukemia to poor patients.
Novarti...
