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The average service year of nurses is 5.4 years because of heavy workloads
The average number of service years of nurses was observed to be 5.4. In other words, nurses having less than 5-year work experience have frequently chose to change or quit jobs due to heavy workloads.
The Korea Heal...
Cooperation of Korean, Chinese and Japanese distribution associations to improve distribution margins
People concerned on Korean, Chinese and Japanese pharmaceutical distribution associations will get together to discuss improvements on unjust business activities, such as low distribution costs of multinational pharma...
Why there are only imported oral contraceptives having no patent?
There are the total 11 oral contraceptives distributed in Korea.
Among them Crown Pharm’s ‘Sexcon Tab’ is the only product manufactured in the domestic industry; however, its market share is less than 2%.
Every famo...
Approval of ‘Cosentyx,’ a new psoriasis treatment
‘Cosentyx(generic name: secukinumab),’ a Novartis’s new psoriasis treatment, has acquired approval. It is a next-generation new drug which will compete with Janssen’s Stelara.
The Ministry of Food and Drug Safety app...
Useful GLP-1 analogues reduced by 5.5% in price
From the next month, the health insurance ceiling prices of GLP-1 analogues have been reduced by 5.5%, which were expected to be improved in the health insurance benefit standard.
According to the partial amendment f...
Hospitals recruiting clinical trial applicants via subway advertisements
A clinical study refers to a test or a research targeting human beings to prove safety and effectiveness of new drugs, foods, medical devices, new therapies.
Recognizing the importance of R&Ds, large hospitals have p...
Novartis Korea increases distribution margins under collection conditionWhile some multinational pharmaceutical companies are in confrontation with the pharmaceutical distribution industry due to low margins, Novartis Korea has increased distributio...
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Decrease trend of antibiotics usage
The amount of antibody prescriptions of Korean medical institutions, which raised concerns of excessive prescriptions of antibodies, has shown a decrease rate. The last year’s prescriptions were KRW 1.0868 trillion, i...
Chong Kun Dang and Hanmi to take leads in patent challengesChong Kun Dang and Hanmi Pharm have taken leads of other domestic pharmaceutical companies not only business competition, but patent challenges which is a starting point of gene...
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Health insurance prices of 82 registered pharmaceutical products decrease from the 1st
Health insurance ceiling prices of 80 registered pharmaceutical products, such as Mabthera Inj, a target agent, will be reduced from the 1st of the next month.
The reduced price of Baraclude, a chronic hepatitis B tr...
