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74 products having the ‘Silent War’ in the shingles treatment market
A number of domestic pharmaceutical companies entered and competed in the shingles treatment ‘Famciclovir’ market.
Since Novartis Korea introduced the product in Korea in 2001, its 73 generic products have been appro...
The pharmaceutical industry raised concerns of sales due to MERS
Due to MERS(Middle East Respiratory Syndrome), pharmaceutical companies have raised concerns about sales. Although the industry had shared an atmosphere not to make a huge deal out of the outbreak of MERS until a cert...
President of the Korean Medical Association asked “Support for medical institutions,” and Prime Minister replied “I’ll take an immediate action”
Acting Prime Minister Kyung-hwan Choi visited inspected Konyang Univ. Hospital, managing and treating MERS-diagnosed patients, to inspect its responsive posture and delivered gratitude to medical personnel and institu...
Pharmaceutical companies working hard to take an advantage of MERS
Pharmaceutical companies, which attempt to take an advantage of MERS, are working hard. It is observed that pharmaceutical companies that owns products having effectiveness towards MERS have silently expanded promotio...
Interferon and ribavirin will receive benefits due to MERS
The government has unveiled the supporting method for MERS patients’ medical expenses in detail. The contents include that the National Insurance benefit will be expanded and patients-sharing expenses will be covered ...
While targeted treatments emerge continuously, the insurance benefit causes difficulties in the market
While many pharmaceutical companies had focused on the development of chronic disease treatments, such as hypertension and diabetes, in early-2000s, the latest new drug trend is the R&D of targeted agents and rare dis...
“Dualize the Ministry of Health and Welfare to prevent recurrence of the MERS crisis”
Due to the spread of MERS, the healthcare industry and politicians have implicitly agreed on the idea of dualization of the Ministry of Health and Welfare into the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Welfare.
Pres...
Hospitals and clinics will temporarily prohibit entry of pharmaceutical salesmen due to the spread of MERS
Now, hospitals and clinics started to restrict entry of pharmaceutical salesmen due to MERS.
According to the industry concerned on the 9th, since the number of diagnosed MERS(Middle East Respiratory Syndrom) patient...
Generics of Janumet will be poured out like Januvia
After enforcement of the Patent Linkage System, domestic pharmaceutical companies have been attracted to a complex, Janumet, as well as Januvia.
Although it will take for at least 8 years for their launches, domestic...
Large distribution companies are actively working on the distribution of MERS-protective masks
Several large pharmaceutical distribution companies seems to supply protective masks for MERS, starting this week.
Although most OTC pharmaceutical wholesalers were not able to receive masks from manufacturing compan...