News About: Pharm. Affairs
8,038 pharmacies gained Green Certificates
The Health Insurance Review Agency (HIRA) said that as of September 31 this year, 11,166 (18.5%) from the total 60,078 medical institutions nationwide were offered Green Certificates.
According to the HIRA, 8,038 ...
OTC drugs sales on the rise for cold patients.
The pharmacy revenue has been remarkably improved with ever growing sales of OTC drugs for common colds that exploded at such a changing season.
The seasonal cold this time lasted over 10 days and the patients lar...
Election rules for KPA chairmanship being debated
The Korea Pharmaceutical Association (KPA) held a public hearing on October 29 in a bid to adopt the rules to elect its chairman and branch heads and after that, it will formulate a final draft and pass it through boa...
Busan pharmacists to protest against government's study results.
The Busan Pharmaceutical Association (BPA) provoked a harsh backlash from the MOHW's study report titled "the relative value of health insurance" covering an exceptional application of the current medical and pharmacy...
KPA will get tough on improper measures of some foreign-invested pharmaceutical firms
"Proper countermeasures are contemplating to cope with improper and lukewarm attitudes of some foreign-invested pharmaceutical firms in their dealing with substandard products and failure in providing accurate drug in...
Pharmacists wary of frequently erroneous prescriptions concentrated in Friday
The erroneous prescriptions have been most frequently issued in Friday every week, according to the statistics of outpatient prescription compiled by Choi Kyung-up, a pharmaceutical manager of Samsung Medical Center.
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KPA to hold a large-scale convention ahead of coming presidential election
The Korea Pharmaceutical Association (KPA) is contemplating to hold a large-scale convention ahead of the December 19 election in a bid to inform its concentrated efforts to the public and renew the purport of a syste...
Public favors 6 year pharmacy school system.
The consumer, academy and press communities highly praised the 6 year pharmacy school system reinforced with clinical pharmacy education programs in which it might contribute to the people's health and the new drug R&...
2,959 pharmacies under tapering charge system
One out of five pharmacies has bee under a tapering treatment/dispensing charge system, according to a health agency.
The tapering treatment/dispensing charge system refer to a system where low treatment/di...
Management of hospital-neighing pharmacies hits snag
Pharmaceutical business sources say that the management of pharmacy near at hospitals has become aggravated due to dwindling number of doctor's prescription, amid new establishment of pharmacies and dispersed prescrip...
