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Doctors tend to reduce unnecessary pill prescriptions
Doctors are seeking to reduce pill prescriptions at medical clinics, according to a report published by the Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service (HIRA).
The HIRA officials found that patients were prescri...
Antibiotics prescription rate dipped 5-fold in 3 years
The Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service (HIRA) revealed yesterday the antibiotics usage of some 12,000 hospitals and clinics nationwide during the latter part of last year, based on prescriptions for common...
Kim to head pharmaceutical group
Kim Dae-joong, CEO of Daiichi-Sankyo Korea, was elected president of the Korea Japanese Pharmaceutical Association (KJPA) as of March 13, the association said.
Kim will replace incumbent Hukuyama Mashashi, CEO of D...
Pharmacists gets cold shoulder from major parties
The official 13-day campaign period for next month’s general elections started today.
The ruling Saenuri Party and the main opposition Democratic United Party (DUP) completed selecting their candidates, a process m...
Boryung’s new antihypertensive drug published in peer journal
Boryung Pharmaceutical Co. says that the efficacy and safety of its Kanarb (fimasartan), a homegrown antihypertensive drug, are fully demonstrated in the global scientific arena.
The results of Phase III study of K...
Hanmi forges strategic tie-up with GSK
Hanmi Pharmaceutical Co. announced yesterday it signed an agreement with GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), a U.K.-based pharmaceutical and health care company, to co-develop and commercialize combination products at the British ...
Chong Kun Dang teams up with B.Brown Korea
Chong Kun Dang Pharmaceutical, Korea’s leading drug manufacturer, said yesterday that it has established a marketing and distribution partnership with B.Brown Korea.
Under the deal, Chong Kun Dang will be in charge...
KNJC’s Nosno spray sales brisk in pharmacy market
KNJC Korea saw its pharmacy sales of Nosno spray, anti-snoring nasal spray, jump this year on the back of the successive approvals from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the Korea Food and Food and Administrat...
Four companies seeking to secure injunction against drug price cuts
Domestic four drug makers and the government are at odds over the new regulation slashing drug prices by an average of 14 percent from April 1.
The four drug companies, such as Ilsung Pharmaceuticals, Elyson Pharm...
Government-imposed price cuts haunt drugmakers
Domestic pharmaceutical companies are now bracing for the effects of government-imposed price cuts that will make domestic drug makers suffer by eroding profitability.
Last month, the Ministry of Health and Welfare...
