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Number of animal pharmacies tops 1,929
The number of animal pharmacies nationwide stood at 1,929 as of the end of September, according to a foundation committee president designed to create the Korean Animal Pharmacy Association.
Citing the data based o...
Korean women in their 50s less positive to combat osteoporosis
Korean women in their 50s are well aware of osteoporosis and/or bone loss, but 38.4 percent of them visit their doctors to check up on their bone health once or twice year, an online poll showed recently.
The surve...
Doctors oppose new prescription plan
The Korean Medical Association (KMA) and the government have clashed over a new prescription plan, under which doctors will be required to prescribe the actual chemical agent instead of the name of a specific drug pro...
Innovative drug firms to call for practical support
The country’s forty-one innovative drug makers have plans to ask for the government’s more practical and realistic support for the development of new drugs from next year, according to the Korea Pharmaceutical Manufac...
Bayer Korea faces wholesalers’ vehement opposition against margin cut
The Korea Pharmaceutical Wholesaler Association (KPWA) and the 30-member Pharmaceutical development Conference (PDC) will push ahead with their united campaign against Bayer Korea’s plan to cut the wholesalers’ profit...
Infopia, Roche Diagnostic Korea sign patent-sharing deal
Infopia has signed an agreement with Roche Diagnostics Korea’s diabetic management division to share Roche’s patented technology, the Korean company said Tuesday.
Through the agreement, Infopia will obtain access t...
CJ’s Exone eyeing bigger market share
CJ Cheil Jedang is striving to expand its share of the domestic hypertension combination drug market dominated by international drugmakers.
Exone, CJ’s new incrementally modified drug (IMD) containing valsartan ...
Wholesalers calling for government to drop cash reward system
The Korea Pharmaceutical Wholesaler Association (KPWA) on Monday said the contentious cash reward system for doctors and pharmacists should be scrapped to prevent the collapse of the local pharmaceutical industry and ...
Combination therapies for hypertension enjoy robust sales
Major drug makers, who have been marketing combined formulations of ARB+CCB for the treatment of hypertension, enjoyed robust sales growth last year, industry data showed.
According to the data released by the Ubis...
Average monthly dispensing sales of pharmacies top 12.25 million won in first half
The average monthly dispensing sales per pharmacies came to 12.25 million won in the first half of this year, latest data showed.
According to the data released by the Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service...
