News About: Pharm. Affairs
Questions arise over the government's regular inspection of most frequently sold OTCs
Although the Ministry of Health and Welfare (MOHW) has regularly investigated the market prices of popular OTCs, business sources say that many pharmacies have raised some questions on its effectiveness on the grounds...
Economic cost of diseases estimated at 36 trillion won
The economic cost of diseases in Korea was presumed at about 36 trillion per annum.
In a report carried in the August issue of Health Welfare Column (title: Economic cost of diseases per age and sex in 1999), Chun...
Franchised pharmacies business in bipolar trend.
A mushrooming rise in the franchised pharmacy business after the implementation of the medical and pharmacy role separation program has plunged and showed a serious bipolar phenomenon, say, "the rich gets richer and t...
KPA requested Pfizer to explain tablet blended mishaps.
The KPA criticized Pfizer over the administrative warning penalty charged to the pharmacist who first found the mishap Cofrel and Cardura tablets intermixed in the same bottle and decided to blame Pfizer through the p...
Pharmacies striving to handle inventory drugs
Despite the previous agreement among the Korean Pharmaceutical Association (KPA), the Korea Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association (KPMA) and the Korea Drug Wholesaler Association (KDWA) last April that for a three-...
Direct operation of pharmacies by some wholesalers to be stamped out
Chairman Chun Young-koo, the Seoul chapter of the Korea Pharmaceutical Association, said on August 13 that he would concentrate his every effort on discovering some illegal pharmacies directly operated by wholesalers ...
KPA to launch its self-cleansing campaign
Recently, the Korea Pharmaceutical Association (KPA) is stepping up its own voluntary surveillance campaign in a bid to eradicate some pharmacies involved in their illegal establishment or collusion acts with specific...
Civic groups urged hospital's protracted strike to solve
76 civic and social activity groups including the Health and Medical Group Coalition claimed to solve the protracted strikes of hospitals and to abolish the compulsory arbitration system by virtue of one's authority. ...
SK conglomerate stepping into drug store markets.
One of conglomerate companies, SK, announced to enter the drug store markets, called OK mart, which combined a pharmacy with convenient stores currently in place at SK gas stations as a concept of "shop in shop" in as...
Banks to lure pharmacists with various loan products
Influenced by a low interest rate and the ongoing system of separating drug dispensing from medical practice, a variety of new bank loan products for pharmacists are inundating and thus, it is expected that be...
