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Ilang to work with its Chinese arm on Supect
Ilyang Pharmaceutical announced last Saturday that it signed a memorandum of understanding with its Chinese arm Yangzhou Ilyang Pharmaceutical in China for the production and sales of Supect (rodotinib).
Yangzhou I...
KPA lashes out at doctors’ unabashed claims
The Korean Pharmaceutical Association (KPA), the nation’s business lobby for pharmacists, has criticized the Korean Medical Association (KMA) for claiming the revision of the current system of separating drug dispensi...
Government to overhaul dual punishment system
The government, healthcare providers and pharmaceutical lobby groups will come up with a plan to correct the flawed dual punishment system for the pertinent law revision in August.
A consultative body, consisting o...
Drug companies rush to hike OTC prices
Some drug companies here are jumping on the bandwagon to hike prices of medicines, many of which are over-the-counter products produced by multinational giants, raising a concern that this puts a heavier financial bur...
Green Cross breaks off acquisition talks for Plasma Resources UK
Green Cross Corporation, which had shown a keen interest in taking over Plasma Resources UK, a blood plasma corporation, withdrew as it lost interest in the purchase.
On Thursday, the company said in a regulatory f...
35 more rare diseases get free coverage from October
The government is set to expand its support for patients suffering from rare diseases, the Ministry for Health and Welfare announced Thursday.
The ministry said 35 more diseases will be added to its list of those ...
KMA mulls suit against insurance companies
The Korean Medical Association vowed legal action against insurance firms that frequently lodged complaints to many doctors in motor accident fraud, citing doctors and hospital staff prepared the false documents to pr...
Multinational giants pin hopes on wider insurance coverage
Riding on the government’s plan to broaden coverage of expenses related to the so-called four major illnesses, which was made public yesterday, multinational drug firms expect that their new anticancer drugs with a hi...
Handok Pharmaceutical changes name to Handok
Handok Pharmaceutical plans to change its name to Handok from July 1.
“The change of company name represents our resolve to open a new chapter of change and innovation as a new total healthcare company based on spl...
KPMA picks Daewoong’s Lee as new committee chairman
Korea Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association picked Lee Jong-wook, CEO of Daewoong Pharm, as its first chairman of the newly created committee consisting of 43 innovative pharmaceutical firms during a meeting on Wed...
