News About: Pharm. Industry
Scientists find way to combat alcoholic liver damage
Professor Kim Sang-gun at Seoul National University and his associates have found a key to tackle alcoholic liver disease, the leading cause of death worldwide.
Alcoholic liver disease has a known etiology but a co...
Record breaking sales of prescription drugs for outpatients.
In proportion to ever growing elderly patient populations the total value of prescription drug sales for outpatients in July counted for 618,900 million won, the highest level of the sales by month.
Considering the...
Low-grade imported raw materials should be discouraged
Some pharmaceutical manufacturers have been shown to import pharmaceutical bulks in low-grade purity, triggering some common types of unfair practices such as price fixing, illicit inducement of customers in the proce...
KRPIA names new vice chairmanThe Korean Research-based Pharmaceutical Industry Association (KRPIA) on August 20 named Lee Kyu-hwang, a former managing director of the Federation of Korean Industries (FKI), ...
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A weekday pack of Daewoong's NVU attracts popularity.Daewoong's NVU (cibutramine), an anti-obesity drug, was designed in a weekday pack so that patients could easily keep complying to the daily administration of the drug, which hi...
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New drug-pricing policy weighing on local pharmaceutical market
The current positive list system is weighing on the domestic pharmaceutical manufacturers as the new system will fatally damage their earnings, experts said.
Under the new system, when the patent period of an origi...
Quinvax, a quinquevalent vaccine, to receive world top product award.Berna Biotech Korea Corp., a subsidiary of Crucell NV, a bio-engineering company of Netherlands, recently introduced Quinvaxem, a fully-liquid vaccine for protection against fiv...
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Another drink rush
Kwangdong Pharm, the country's leading drug maker famous for Uwhangchumsimwon, has 2007 as a year to strengthen its international reputation.
Sales of corn silk tea are expected to turn around, driven by increased ...
Export sales as a key for local drug industries to survive.
Local drug industries are getting more enthusiastic in exploring the overseas drug markets by various marketing activities as a company survival strategy.
Recently Dong-A announced $68 million worth of overseas sa...
AstraZeneca Korea to hold five-finger heart campaignAstraZeneca Korea will hold its five-finger campaign to protect a heart for ordinary people and hypertensive patients to conduct an active publicity campaign of Atacand (candesa...
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