News About: Pharm. Industry
9th WSMI AP regional conference & 1st APSMI general assembly to kick off
The first Asia-Pacific Self-Medication Industry (APSMI) General Assembly and the ninth World Self-Medication Industry (WSMI) Asia-Pacific Regional Conference will be held from 18 to 20, October at COEX, southern Seoul...
Returned medicine haunts drug wholesalers
Recently, pharmaceutical wholesalers have found it still difficult to deal with returned medicines due to uncooperative stance of drug makers including multinational firms.
The Korea Pharmaceutical Wholesaler Assoc...
Can Crestor outpace Lipitor in sales?
Eyes are on the recent market trend that the sales of AstraZeneca’s Crestor (rosuvastatin) will overtake that of Pfizer’s Lipitor (atorvastatin), but the possibility is not large as the prices of Crestor 5 mg and 20 m...
Boehringer Ingelheim Korea severs ties with Daewoong
Boehringer Ingelheim Korea severed its strategic ties with Daewoong Pharmaceutical over the co-promotion of latter’s over-the-counter (OTC) medicines, it was learned yesterday.
Though the reasons for their sudden s...
Competition to be intensified in hepatitis B drug market
Competition in the domestic hepatitis B drug market is likely to heat up because Yuhan Corp., Korea’s exclusive seller of Gilead Science Viread, are poised to occupy the runner-up slot by deploying aggressive marketin...
Ethical sales dip 10% in August
After the government forced down prices of medicines in April, Korea's pharmaceutical industry is still feeling the pinch.
According to Ubist, the domestic ethical market for outpatients in August accounted for 691...
Local drugmakers to challenge Baraclude in generics fight
Korean pharmaceutical firms are gearing up to enter the 100 billion won anti-hepatitis B drug market as the patent of the market leader, Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS)’s Baraclude (entecavir), is to expire in 2015.
The...
Institute Pasteur’s annual BOD meeting to be held
Institut Pasteur Korea (IP-Korea) said Monday it will host the 45th board of directors meeting of the Institut Pasteur International Network at its auditorium at Gyeonggi Province, from September 24 and 26.
Accordi...
Ildong to export pharmaceutical raw materials to Indonesia
Ildong Pharmaceutical said last Friday it has signed a memorandum of understanding with PT. SRI AMAN of Indonesia to export raw materials of vitamin, including thiamine disulfide, at the 2012 Bio Korea Conference and ...
Multinational firms’ investment analyzed by KHIDI
The following analysis on Korea’s foreign investment outcomes has been made by the Korea Health Industry Development Institute (KHIDI) that successfully hosted the seventh Bio Korea Conference and Exhibition at Ilsan ...
