News About: Pharm. Affairs
Pharmacy management aggravated
Market observers say that the management of some pharmacies has been aggravated due to a series of drug related policies by the government, such as a tapering system for drug management fees implemented on last Januar...
Pharmaceutical related associations agreed to handle the returned drugs until September
In their recent gathering for consultation of drug distribution, the Korean Pharmaceutical Association, the Korean Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association and the Korean Drug Wholesalers Association have agreed that ...
Foreign distributors eye pharmacy market
Stimulated by the full opening of the domestic medical service sector to the foreign competition in 2005, some of major foreign pharmaceutical related business firms including Wellgrin of US and Boots of U.K. plan to ...
Main opposition strongly demands the review of SDP function
The main opposition Grand National Party (GNP) has recently issued its left-leaning 8-point policies of the government and among them, the current system of separating drug dispensing from medical practice (SDP) funct...
KPA calls for confidential informations to protect.
The KPA strongly asked the government to prepare the appropriate measures for which many confidential informations related with physicians prescriptions and dispensing including their diseases or medication histories ...
Sales of oxygen preparations
Stimulated by the increasing trend to prefer more pleasurable life environment in the midst of severe air pollution, a variety of oxygen related items have been on the domestic market.
Many pharmacists say that suc...
Partnership pharmacy business on declining trend
After the launch of the medical and pharmacy role separation system, the pharmacy business opening with a partnership type appeared with a brisk fashion probably in an attempt to keep their business competitiveness t...
Doctor's sustained prescriptions on non-production medical insurance drugs raise some dispute
With the incessant prescriptions from some clinics on the items whose production was already discontinued from drug makers, pharmaceutical sources says that there is an urgent need to delete such items from the list o...
Prior dispensing of demand forecast drugs interpreted as 'illegal'
The Ministry of Health and Welfare says that the prior dispensing acts of drugs through demand forecast violates the Pharmaceutical Affairs Law.
In its recent response to a question raised by the Korean Pharmaceuti...
Foreign-invested firms to handle returned drugs in dead storage
The Korea Pharmaceutical Association at North Kyungsang province has strongly maintained that foreign-invested firms will actively take part in handing the returned drugs in dead storage, to prevent further aggravatio...
