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Last year’s number of doctors exceeds 90.000 that increased 4.6% compared to the previous year
The total number of doctors was estimated to exceed 90,000 across the nation last year.
The 2013 Statistical Yearbook of Health Insurance was released by the Health Insurance Review & Assessment Service and the Natio...
Multinational pharmaceutical companies are dominating the OTC market followed by the prescription drug market
The landscape of OTC market is changing. Multinational pharmaceutical companies, characterized by prescription drugs, are achieving satisfactory results by actively promoting OTC products.
Menarini Korea’s ‘Fulcare,’...
The MW announces to pay attention to the conflict between the wholesalers and GSK over distribution cost
The Ministry of Health and Welfare (MW) announced that it could intervene in the conflict between the wholesale industry and Glaxo Smith Kline (GSK) over distribution cost if it creates problem in medicine supply.
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The insurance drug price of new medicine is equivalent to 44.4% of the OECD average
It was confirmed that the insurance drug price of new medicine, which was registered after the positive list policy took effect, was less than half of the average price of the OECD countries. The price was equivalent ...
Yoon Jae-Seung, vice president of Daewoong Pharm, becomes the leading person of Daewoong GroupYoon Jae-Seung, vice president of Daewoong Pharm, became the leading person of the group followed by becoming the largest shareholder on July when he was appointed as the presid...
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The number of dementia patients across the nation reported as 405,000 which increased by 87.2% for the past four years
Patients with ‘dementia,’ a typical aging disease, have increased by 87.2% for the past four years, an annual growth rate of 17%.
Especially, women with dementia are 2.5 times more than men; while, women aged over 70...
The Global Health Security will be held in Korea next year
The Korean government comes forward to promote global health safety.
The government sent a joint delegation to the ‘Global Health Security Agenda (GHSA)’ held by the White House on September 26 to emphasize the impor...
GSK might undertake all responsibility for causing distribution crisis and it should stop blaming headquarters
There are criticisms raised by the industry that GSK could bear all the responsibility, if it neglects to reconcile the conflict with the wholesale industry over distribution cost.
On September 25, the wholesale indu...
The way that pharmaceutical companies could lead the local market
Listed pharmaceutical companies such as Ildong Pharmaceutical, Handok and Whanin Pharm are extending co-promotion activities or entering into new contracts with multinational pharmaceutical companies in succession.
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Local pharmaceutical companies will first try to avoid lawsuit
The industry pays attention to the local pharmaceutical companies as they change the image of their offerings to avoid lawsuit against Pfizer’s Viagra.
CJ HealthCare notified to its wholesalers that the color of Hera...
