News About: Pharm. Affairs
Seoul KPA nominated 17 wholesalers for pharmacy management cooperative council (PMCC).
The Seoul KPA finally selected 17 wholesalers for the PMCC on Feb. 29, which included Sungbuk, Seshin, Myungsung, Baekwang, Yungdeungpo, Sungil, Songam, Jungsoo, Wonjin, Shinyung, Samseung, Kyungrim, Hanshin, Yupoong,...
1000 college students of pharmacy school on a massive rally.
About 1,000 college students of pharmacy schools, professors and student's parents took a large scale of demonstration on the examination date of Feb. 20th at Yoido plaza for the national qualification of herbal pharm...
Pharmacy Management Cooperative company to be nominated this week
About 70 drug wholesale companies applied to the Pharmacy Management Cooperative Company (PMCC) up to the due date of Feb. 19. Seoul KPA will select the company and notify it to the company individually.
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Disease name to be described on prescription sheet.
The KPA suggested to the MOHW that the disease name and prescription remarks for injectable drugs should be written on the prescription sheet. In fact, the prescription format prepared by the MOHW eliminated the code...
271 retail pharmacies shut down in 1999.
As a result of protracted business recession in the pharmaceutical industry and increased appearance of super cut rated pharmacies in the drug markets, many small and medium sized retail pharmacies have closed...
Seeking new drug supply sources in bloodshed battle.
Local drug industry faced a serious business challenge in securing the new drug supply source as many American and European multinational drug corporations set up their own business presence in Korea. As a result, the...
Application for herbal pharmacist qualification test rejected
National Examination Board for Health and Medical Specialists forwarded official letters to 18 colleges of pharmacy except Kyunghee and Wonkwang Univ. on Dec., 11 stating that the supplemented letters for the applicat...
Patronage system in pharmacy may minimize patient's inconveniencies.
The MOHW plans to encourage an introduction of so called "patronizing pharmacy system" in order to minimize patient's possible inconveniencies caused by implementation of the government medical and pharmacy separation...
Sex related drugs contributed to pharmacy sales.
In contrast with slow business of Viagra in the retail pharmacy market the sales of other sex related products like a drug for premature ejaculation showed a rising trend. As people's quality of life has been far impr...
Pharmacy's insurance to be billed at actual prices.
The actual purchasing price reimbursement system will be applied to the pharmacy as well, and therefore effective from Feb. next year the pharmacy shall bill the insurance drug medication at actual purchasing prices. ...
