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SK Chemicals’ hemophilia therapy ‘AFSTYLA’ approved in CanadaSK Chemicals(CEO Man-Hoon Park) announced on the 18th that its hemophilia treatment ‘AFSTYLA’ acquired commercialization approval from the Canadian health authorities Health Can...
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Pharmaceutical association’s anger against KMA’s discussion over 6-year curriculum
In response to the Korean Medical Association’s(KMA) announcement that it is improper to discuss the reorganization of the current pharmacy university curriculum to an integrated 6-year system, the Korean Pharmaceutic...
HUMIRA approved for non-infectious panuveitis treatment
On the 15th, Abbvie Korea(CEO Hong-Ki Yoo) and Eisai Korea(CEO Hong-Byung Ko) announced they acquired the Korean Ministry of Food and Drug Safety’s approval for the non-infectious intermediate, posterior and panuveiti...
Pregnancy testers available in convenient stores and regular shops
Pregnancy tests which has only been sold in pharmacies and medical device stores will be available in convenient stores and regular shops from now on.
The Ministry of Food and Drug Safety announced a part of the revi...
‘Medicine vending machine’ passes Cabinet meeting
The amendment to the Pharmaceutical Affairs Law to implement medicine vending machines.
The government, on the 13th, decided the amendment which permits selling medicines using medicine vending machines at the Cabin...
Listed cosmetics pharmas records KRW 16.9 billion net profits on average
In the 3rd quarter of the year, the 22 listed cosmetics companies’ average net profits were KRW 16.9 billion increased by 18.4% from same quarter of the last year. However, it was decreased by 14.7% from the last quar...
Exempted from WHO’s GMP inspection for supplying Korean vaccines to the UN
The Ministry of Food and Drug Safety(MFDS) announced it has signed a business agreement containing a condition to supply Korean vaccines to the UN without the World Health Organization’s GMP inspection on the 7th of D...
Drug sold the most late-night was digestive medicine
The pharmaceutical products that are sold the most at pharmacies running in the late night were digestive organ products, and customers gave high satisfaction on the late-night pharmacies.
As the 1st anniversary of l...
No. of products approved by bioequivalence test exceeds 10,000 products in 15 years
It was observed there have been more than 10 thousand products approved by bioequivalence test that has been implemented for 15 years.
According to the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety(MFDS), the number of products a...
Preparation for creation of animal drug database to start search engine
In order to safely manage veterinary drugs and provide their accurate information, Korea Pharmaceutical Information Center(Director Dok-Sook Yang, KPIC) and Korea Veterinary Pharmacy Association(President Sung-Jin Kim...
