News About: Pharm. Industry
Companies to reshuffle OTC business division
Some pharmaceutical companies, including Johnson&Johnson Korea, are moving toward the reshuffle of their OTC (over-the-counter) business divisions in order to ease public access to restriction-free OTC drugs at superm...
Uncertainty shrouds pharmaceutical industry
The local pharmaceutical industry is likely to suffer further setbacks in the coming months as the team, led by the Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office, indicted 25 medical professionals and pharmaceutical indu...
KFDA approves marketing authorization for combination antiplatelet product containing aspirin with c
CJ Cheiljedang Corp. announced last Friday the approval of their dual antiplatelet combination capsule CrossOne (clopidogrel and acetylsalicylic acid) by the Korea Food and Drug Administration.
With the introductio...
Mvix new dosage form enjoying high popularity
SK Chemical’s Mvix-S orally dissolving film (ODF) 50 mg has gained strong popularity among customers, exceeding 100 phone calls a day.
Its monthly sales have steadily risen to 1 billion won and the sharp rise in sa...
GSK names new executives in shake-up
GlaxoSmithKline yesterday promoted Yoo Sam-dong, executive managing director, as its executive vice president in a management reshuffle which involved several executives.
The company also promoted Yeon Tai-joon, m...
Drug makers’ suit against health ministry is imminent
The Korea Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association unveiled its plan to file a lawsuit against the Ministry of Health and Welfare on and about December 28 to nullify the government's plan to slash drug prices next yea...
Drugmaker file suit against NTS
A Pharmaceutical company filed a suit with the Seoul Regional Tax Office on Dec. 20, demanding it slash 20 billion won from the kickbacks of 80 billion won that had been paid to doctors and pharmacists for the past th...
Pharmacists’ group agrees to revise pharmaceutical law
The Korean Pharmaceutical Association has decided to accept a revised bill that would allow convenient stores to sell over-the-counter drugs.
A day before the ministry’s report of next year’s plan to President Lee ...
Some drugmakers seeking to make opposition against drug price cut plan
Some Korean drug firms are poised to make an opposition against the government’s policy to slash drug prices next year amid the planned lawsuit led by the Korea Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association.
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Patent court against Schering in patent suit
Korea’s patent court on Thursday dismissed claims by Schering-Plough Inc. in a patent lawsuit against two local drug firms of Ildong and Hanlim over their Nasonex (mometasone furoate) nasal spray, a treatment for alle...
