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Doctors clash over prescription right of natural products
Medical doctors and Oriental medicine practitioners are clashing over the prescription of locally developed natural drugs, such as Dong-A’s Stillen, SK Chemicals’ Joins and Green Cross’s Shinbaro.
The Korean Medica...
85.2% of Korean ED patients exposed to benign prostatic hyperplasia
85.2 percent of Korean patients with erectile dysfunction (ED) experienced benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), according to a local professor who cited a journal of the Korean Urological Association.
In a local bri...
Bill on general food labeling eyed
The Korean Food and Drug Administration unveiled its plan to efficiently control general foods by integrating all of their labeling based on a variety of literatures and clinical results.
To this end, the drug agen...
Controversy of OTC emergency contraceptives deepens
The Korea Food and Drug Administration decided Thursday to allow emergency contraception pills, known as morning-after pills, to be sold at pharmacies without doctors’ prescription. Instead the authorities decided to ...
Government to implement drug re-categorization program from next year
The drug reclassification plan to make emergency contraceptives available without prescription will take effect from next year after a 6-month grace period, the Korea Food and Drug Administration said Monday.
The K...
Actually transacted drug pricing system should be abolished, experts say
Korea should abolish the current incentive based pricing system as the differences between reported and actual prices still exists, market experts claim.
On top of that, they say the prevailing drug pricing reform ...
Local pharmaceutical association raises necessity of pharmacy assistant
A plan to introduce a pharmacy assistant system is resurfacing as the Chungbuk Pharmacist Association suggested last week that the Korean Pharmaceutical Association consider adopting the program.
The suggestion cam...
Lee Bum-jae to head vaccine business unit in MerckMSD Korea, the subsidiary of the U.S. pharmaceutical firm Merck & Co., appointed Lee Bum-Jae as its new director, responsible for taking charge of vaccine business division in t...
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Government to select innovative pharmaceutical firms
The Ministry of Health and Welfare said Monday it will select innovative pharmaceutical firms on June 15.
So far, a total of 88 drug firms have applied for such designation; 50 Korean drug makers, 23 bioventure fir...
Four drugmakers win in drug related suit
The Seoul Administration Court on Monday dismissed claims by the Ministry of Health and Welfare in a lawsuit filed by four local drug firms against the Ministry of Health and Welfare over the slashing of drug prices d...
