News About: Pharm. Affairs
Service for pharmacy turned unfavorable after new reform system launched.
According to a survey conducted by the KPA correspondence 78% respondents to the enquete titled "Pharmacist's perception over drug companies" said that the service level provided by drug companies for retail pharmacie...
Medical reform exceptional measure under high controversy.
The KPA, a pharmacist lobby organization, has shown a harsh backlash against the more exceptional measures of the current medical and pharmacy role separation programs that the Pharmaceutical Affairs Law Revision Subc...
Drug industry in serious confusion over sales ban on individual pills at pharmacies.
Effective from Jan. 1 any individual non-prescription drug pills by opening the finished drug package shall not be sold at retail pharmacies. However, this new provision may bring about a wide range of confusion not o...
Local pharmacy academy accelerates international scientific exchange program.
Many local pharmacy colleges have recently shown a promising stir-up movement, by attempting to activate international scientific study exchange programs including an establishment of sisterhood relationships with for...
Pharmacy practitioners on painful efforts to find income tax avoidance.
Most of retail pharmacy revenue has come from the prescription filling services, and therefore exposed to the tax office so transparently that no body could evade income taxes. Now, many retail pharmacists are painful...
Next term president of Kuro and Dongjak district KPA in hot competition.
Dec. 21 is the date for the next term presidents in Kuro and Dongjak district KPAs to be elected. The election campaign appeared with a harsh competition in Dongjak-ku with Mr. Park Chan-doo, the present president and...
Explosive sales of Vitamin C preparations in the market.
It is quite a good news for the drug companies producing high dosed Vitamin C preparations to meet unprecedently a sudden explosive market demand after a medical school professor staged in the TV show, advocating the ...
Korea Pharmaceutical Information Foundation to establish at end of this month.
The KPA announced to establish the Korea Pharmaceutical Information Foundation (KPIF), a juridical foundation, around the end of this month under joint investments by 3 pharmaceutical organizations, the KPA, the KPMA ...
Drug industry to spur market expansion of nutritional supplements.
Aiming at the 960 billion won worth of the nutritional supplement market this year the pharmaceutical industry accelerated to put many efforts into the market for taking over better shares, which indirectly helped a g...
Pharmacists against legislation movement to prohibit free dispensing practices at pharmacies.
The KPA, a pharmacist lobbying group, strongly stood against the government's legislation movement for provisional standards and guidelines of supervising pharmacist's free dispensing practices.
The MOHW recently ...
