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Sales of 10 leading local drugmakers plunge in June
Over the years, Korean firms had to give up the home market to powerful global companies coming in with good medicine and better marketing strategies.
According to Ubist market data, Korea’s 10 leading companies, s...
Chronic fatigue syndrome rising
One out of four office workers get chronic disease, according to the online recruitment company JobKorea.
62.3 percent of 429 office workers suffer from chronic disease, followed by indigestion or heart burn with 3...
Committee for Korean hospitals overseas to be set up
Large hospitals are seeking to make inroads into foreign markets to find new sources of income, through opening branches in the Middle East and Southeast Asia.
To facilitate such endeavors, the Korea Global Healthc...
Debate over drug utilization review system heats up
A dispute has arisen over the planned introduction next month of a government-imposed review of prescribed drugs.
Doctors have threatened to boycott the Drug Utilization Review (DUR) system, saying it interferes wi...
Doctors, pharmacists clash over DUR
Disputes are arising between doctors and pharmacists over who gets the right to prescribe medicines to patients in the Drug Utilization Review (DUR) system.
While the pharmacists claim that the doctors should presc...
Doctors oppose drug pricing policy
The Korean Medical Association (KMA), the nation's largest group of doctors, and the government have clashed over the controversial plan to assess the economic effectiveness of conventional medicines, including antihy...
Doctors to prescribe original brands
Doctors will choose to prescribe originals over generics as the safety and efficacy of the former has been already established in clinical settings, the Korean Medical Association said on May 13.
The KMA vice chair...
300 doctors calls for healthcare reform
A total of 300 doctors attended the emerge meeting on May 13 to discuss their future course of action in protest against the current system of separating drug dispensing from medical price and new drug pricing reform....
687,524 women diagnosed with osteoporosis
The total number of people diagnosed as osteoporosis was increased from 450,000 in 2004 to 740,000 last year, indicating an average yearly increase of 13 percent, a government report said on May 9.
According to the...
Sung Sang-chul elected as KHA head
Sung Sang-chul has been elected as president o the Korea Hospital Association.
Sung, incumbent director of Seoul National University Hospital, beat contenders, including Kang Bo-young of Andong Hospital Director, i...
