News About: Pharm. Industry
Choongwae under stock holding company system.
Choongwae announced on April 2 that the company will separate the management with Choongwae Holdings (temporary) for the investment and Choongwae Pharmaceuticals for the business effective from July 1 this year. The e...
KFDA to approve an oral quit-smoking remedy, Champix.
The KFDA announced an approval of Champix (varenicline tartrate), an oral quit-smoking remedy as of March 30 filed by Pfizer Korea based on the clinical study evidences of showing 60% success in quitting smoking. Now,...
KFDA announces safety information of pergolide products
The Korea Food and Drug Administration issued a warning letter of the prescribing information for pergolide mesylate (Permax) to inform healthcare professionals of reports of cardiac valvulopathy involving one or more...
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Pfizer Korea to lead local educations for clinical R&D.
Pfizer Korea announced on March 29 that the company would launch diverse education programs of the R&D of clinical studies even for the college students starting from Ewha Univ. on March 31 to other 6 universities and...
KPTEC runs new GMP program for pharmaceutical technicians
Korea Pharm. Tech. Education Center (KPTEC), which was set up on February, is scheduled to start its first education program for new good manufacturing practice from April 12.
Under the program, a workshop-oriented...
Kang Moon-seok named new director at Dong-A Pharm
Dong-A Pharmaceutical, Korea's No. 1 drug maker, appointed two new directors Kang Moon-seok, the chief executive of foreign wine and liquor importer Sooseok Trading and former Dong-A president Yu Chung-sik at its boar...
Pharmaceutical firms want more hiring of clinical research associate
Domestic and foreign-invested pharmaceutical firms are beset by shortages of clinical research associate these days.
A clinical research associate is a profession defined by Good clinical practice guidelines.
Th...
Lilly Korea to promote Cialis for general practitioners.
Lilly Korea is now promoting Cialis, an anti-imptence drug, with a scientific conference under the title of "Cialis Freedom symposium" targeted to other general practitioners than urological specialists starting from ...
Domestic drugmakers seeking expansion of overseas market
With the domestic pharmaceutical industry facing the imminent settlement of a free trade agreement between Korea and the United States and an ongoing drug pricing policy (so-called positive list system), drug manufact...
