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GNP under consideration for remodification of pharmaceutical affairs law.
Mr. Chung Yong-won, a National Assembly Chief Commissioner of the Health and Welfare Commission, along with other 4 members of the opposition party, GNP took a brief meeting with top executive members of the KPA on Se...
Drug industry in trouble with month-end credit collection.
The medical community's prolonged strike against the government medical reform plan has raised serious business management difficulties to medical institutes, resulting in postponement of their credit payment to drug ...
Drug price to cut when its unfair trade identified in the market.
The KPMA worried that some drug companies were exercising unfair trade activities with medical institutes, by providing a special rebate to them in return of more prescribing their own products, and therefore made it ...
Remodification of current pharmaceutical affairs law may turn into a new difficult aspect.
In the political circle there appeared with a new movement of overall revising the already revised pharmaceutical affairs law again, sparkling a another sign of difficulties.
In the ruling party's supreme commissio...
KPA moves boycott against medical/pharmacy separation plan.
The pharmacist association expressed a harsh backlash against the government movement of extending number of non-substitutive prescription drugs in order to calm down the sensitive rashes the medical community reacted...
Drug wholesaler concerned low ribution margin policy
Drug wholesalers pointed out that the wholesaler's margins seriously declined from the traditional rate ranged over 10% now to 5 to 6% after implementation of the government new medical and pharmacy separation program...
Overseas drug trade still kept unbalanced.
Korea Pharmaceutical Trade Association unveiled the pharmaceutical import and export data during the past half of the year, showing 3.1% decrease in export at U$308 million over the same period last year in contrast o...
Some indications of Cisapride to be deleted.
The KFDA announced to cancel some indications of Cisapride such as early satiety feeling, hear burn and abdominal distention, anorexia, nausea, vomiting, upper abdominal pain, belching in sour, functional gastric dysp...
Negotiation between government and medical community failed.
A negotiation between the government and the medical community on Sept. 8 went failure, and therefore once more big medical strikes across the nation may happen on Sept. 15, which was previously declared by the medica...
Pharmacy college professors urged medical community to participate in separation program.
Korea Pharmacy School Professor Council (Chairman: Prof. Kim Kil-soo) announced a resolution statement, recalling the medical community to control their absurd claims in connection with the medical and pharmacy separa...
