News About: Pharm. Affairs
Pharmacy Circle Faces Difficulty in Handling Medicine Stocks
As the selection of the list of prescription medicine involving pharmaceutical and medical associations continues, pharmacy associations are expected to encounter problems in handling medicine stocks.
This is becau...
Combination of Shop-in-Shop Business Employing Nutritionists
The shop-in-shop format in the pharmaceutical industry is expected to establish combination through joint cooperation among companies which should result in additional huge sales for pharmacies by installing vitamin a...
Import of functional foods 60% up at 173,300 million won.
Functional foods including health supplement and special nutritional products showed an increasing import and a fast growing in the market.
Korea Health Supplement and Special Nutritional Food Association cited the...
Number of Pharmacists in Public Health Centers Falls to Less Than Half of Regular Personnel
The manpower problem involving pharmacists working in public health centers has worsened, as the number fell to less than half of that of regular medical personnel.
According to a document on the inspection of g...
Community Pharmacies undergo aggravated operations due to the supply bottleneck
It was disclosed that small-sized community pharmacies located in residential areas are experiencing a huge difficulty in getting medical supplies.
According to the Pharmacy Association, it has become known that...
Pharmacy business on at day time, OTCs at night time.
Most of pharmacies concentrated so fully on the prescription business that they were almost unable to think about the OTC business at the time right after the medical and pharmacy role separation program launched. Now...
Increase in Drugstore-type Pharmacies from Pursuing Diversified Operations
Because of the centralization phenomenon in prescription reception, drugstore-type pharmacies are emerging in succession.
According to the Pharmacy Association, drugstore-type pharmacies are emerging because pharm...
Restriction on opening a pharmacy in a hospital-located building ruled as illegal.
The policy of the public health center that prohibits the opening of a pharmacy in a building where a hospital is located in order to prevent prearranged activities from occurring has been ruled as illegal.
The 4th...
Transparency required in legislation process of Basic Law for Life Ethic.
A part of civil and social groups showed adverse reactions to the government's legislation of "the basic law for life ethic" covering a provisional ban on human cloning because of unclear rationale for its legislation...
Call for Plan to Correct Unfair Transactions of Zuellig
Sixteen chairmen of provincial pharmaceutical associations adopted a statement demanding a concrete action plan to correct the unfair transactions of Zuellig and the pharmaceutical companies cooperating with it.
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