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Pyramax Phase 3 study results published in New England Journal of Medicine
Results from a Phase 3 study of pyronaridine-artesunate combination pill Pyramax, approved by EMA for the treatment of falciparum malaria, was published in the New England Journal of Medicine dated April 5, Shinpoong ...
Monthly average health insurance allowance for orthopedics totals 58.24 million won in 2011
Orthopedics clinics received an average 58.24 million won as a monthly health insurance payment last year, the biggest reimbursement among local clinics, the Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service (HIRA) said ...
Daewoong to set up JV for pharmaceutical plant in Indonesia
Daewoong Pharmaceutical Co. said Tuesday that it plans to establish a joint venture with PT. Infion, an affiliated company of PT. Bernofarm in Indonesia, to build a cGMP (current Good Manufacturing Practice) pharmaceu...
Rift widens in KPMA
The leadership of the Korea Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association (KPMA) is facing a backlash from within over the rumors that the second pharmaceutical body is to be established under the full support from the Min...
Type 2 diabetes market heats up
Despite the variety of efficacious oral anti-diabetics available to treat type 2 diabetes—many of them available generically—the unmet need in this disease remains high.
Merck’s Januvia (sitagliptin), which was fir...
National Assembly likely to pass OTC drug sales bill
A bill to allow the sale of over-the-counter drugs outside pharmacies is likely to be passed as the Saenuri and Democratic United parties agreed to put the bill to vote in a plenary session on April 24.
The 19th Na...
Exclusive department for food and health related crimes to be set up: Supreme Court says
The Supreme Court has recently unveiled its plan to establish an exclusive department to deal with health and medical crimes in major courts nationwide.
Under the newly revised rules, the food and health related de...
Environmental diseases in decreasing trend
The number of people suffering from an environment-related disease such as atopic dermatitis and asthma inched down on-year in 2011, a government report said Tuesday.
According to the Health, Insurance Review and A...
Major pharmaceutical firms fare ill in 1Q
Korea's major drug firms performed worse in the first quarter of 2012 than three months earlier largely due to quick handling of their drug inventories to soften the impact from the government-mandated cuts in drug pr...
OTC drug sales bill left undone
A bill to allow the sale of over-the-counter drugs outside pharmacies is in doubt as politicians of major parties have shown differences over the bill.
Rep. Hwang Woo-yeo of the ruling Saenuri Party said Sunday a p...
