News About: Pharm. Affairs
Some colleges of pharmacy to abolish the curriculums for oriental medicines
For the past several years, some colleges of pharmacy have reduced or abolished the curriculums of oriental drugs, such as pharmacognosy, galanicals and medical botanics during their re-editing of curriculums,...
Busan Pharmaceutical Association impeaching HIRA and NHIC.
Busan Pharmaceutical Association denounced the HIRA and NHIC by taking an opportunity of the 4th meeting of the Prescription Format Committee on July 10, demonstrating rage against their inconsistent attitudes on over...
Discontent on rewarding system to discourage irregularities of pharmacy
Business sources say there are the mounting discontents from many pharmacists against the government's measure to introduce the citizens' rewarding system on the irregularities of pharmacy, effective July 1, in line w...
KMA, threatening all-out campaigns to discover any arbitrary dispensing in pharmacy
The Korea Medical Association (KMA) said it will drastically increase the employment number of ex-policemen aiming to discover any arbitrary or substitute dispensing in pharmacy, while the Korea Practitioners Associat...
Prescription oriented pharmacy on slow sales due to world-cup.
The pharmacy communities along with the pharmaceutical companies actively took part in the 2002 Korea/Japan World Cup event with a variety of marketing and promotional campaign, expecting a special world-cup event bus...
Drugs supplying to pharmacies at far higher than NHI prices.
Some foreign drug companies were found supplying their products to retail pharmacies at far higher than NHI prices, which gave quite a business damage to the pharmacy management.
According to a pharmacy source, it ...
KPA to revise some irrational regulations in the Pharmaceutical Affairs Law
The Korean Pharmaceutical Association (KPA) said it plans to revise some regulations of the Pharmaceutical Affairs Law which lack equilibrium and rationale compared to the Medical Law. Noting that this move is designe...
KPA under criminal suit against KMA for defamation of characters.
In the standing committee's meetings of KPA on June 19 and 17 the KPA determined to sue the KMA executive teams for defamation of pharmacist's characters through the mass public advertising.
In consultation with la...
Pharmacy college students with a few opportunities in hospital practice
Influenced by the new system of separating drug dispensing from medical practice (SDP function), some hospitals are averting their on-spot training for pharmacy college students who intend to be trained during summer ...
Good Pharmacy Practice standards about to implement again.
The Korea Pharmaceutical Association (KPhA) stepped forward for the implementation of the good pharmacy practice (GPP) in an attempt to upgrade the prestige of pharmacy in tandem with the medical and pharmacy role sep...
