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Changing trend of cold medicines to spraying type
The dosage form of cold medicines is changing from tablet to spray. Their indication is also shifting from nose to throat.
In fact, there even was no market for spraying-type sore throat treatments.
As launching Bet...
Narcotic appetite suppressants sold 200 million units last year
Unlike the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety’s(MFDS) argument that sales of phentermine & phendimetrazine are not increasing anymore as a justification to limit approval of narcotic appetite suppressants(phentermine & ...
“It’ll be a jackpot to launch Champix generic,’ leading patent challenges
Since Pfizer’s antismoking treatment, ‘Champix(varenicline tartrate)’ become a gigantic product with the government’s drug price support, Korean pharmaceutical companies have tried to launch its generic.
However, it...
Dong-A second challenge on global new drug, having similar figure as Sivextro
The second new global drug developed by Dong-A ST is expected to take a momentum to launch soon. The interesting point is that it has taken a very similar walk as the story of the super antibiotic Sivextro.
Accordin...
“Korean bio-pharma investment market has gigantic bubble”
I was criticized a part of foreign countries indicated huge bubble is created on the Korean biopharmaceutical market because of excessive expectations.
At the 2016 Bio-Converged Technology Conference hosted by the Mi...
Issue created on free influenza vaccination for children due to shortage
Implemented this year, the free influenza vaccination project for children under the age of 5 has made slow progress.
Although the ruling and opposing parties decided to implement the project a little early and chang...
Kim Young-Ran Law rapidly scares communication with public servants
As the Kim Young-Ran Law which prohibits bribery will be enforced on the 28th of September, pharmaceutical companies are known to have difficulties in communication with governmental organizations.
Public servants ha...
Relaxation of policy to obligate to turn in bioequivalence test data on drug reassessment
Data of bioequivalence tests must have been turned in reassessment of drugs so far, but a regulation will be relaxed that it need to conditionally be turned in depending on target products for the reassessment.
The M...
3 of 10 employees at foreign pharma are women, 1 of 10 works in R&D
3 of 10 employees at multinational pharmaceutical companies branched in the Korean market were surveyed to be women. In addition, 1 of 10 of the employees are working in the R&D field.
According to data conducted by ...
What are vaccines to keep eye on for shingles?
The number of shingles patients has been increasing, and most of them are actually the middle-aged and elders. Thus, companies actively developing vaccines seem to be busy proving rate of prevention in the elder group...
