News About: Pharm. Affairs
Will domestic entry of Avastin make Roche worried?
Domestic clinical trials of biosimilars have been actively conducted towards ‘Avastin(generic name: bevacizumab),’ a VEGF(Vascular endothelial growth factor) targeted anticancer drug.
On the 5th, Quintiles Transnatio...
‘Suglat’ landed in large hospitals after ‘Forxiga’
It was observed ‘Suglat,’ a SGLT-2 inhibitor recognize as a new diabetes drug, has been settled in large hospitals, followed by the same type drug, ‘Forxiga.’
According to the observation of Medipana News on the 6th,...
Beginning of prescription competition between Tresiba and Toujeo
The active competition among next-generation insulin has begun.
According to the industry concerned on the 28th, after Novo Nordisk registered the health insurance benefit of ‘Tresiba(insulin degludec),’ a basal insu...
Sovaldi and Harvoni to pay attention to getting health insurance benefit
The industry has paid attention if the expensive hepatitis C drugs, ‘Sovaldi’ and ‘Harvoni’ will receive the health insurance benefit this year.
According to the industry concerned on the 5th, the Health Insurance Be...
New wave in overactive bladder treatments with Betmiga and Botox
Doctors have shown interests as many launches of overactive bladder medications have broaden treatment options.
This was possible because the benefit registration of ‘Betmiga PR Tab(mirabegron) and the benefit expans...
Expanded Health Insurance Benefit of ‘Invega Sustenna’
Janssen Korea(CEO Ok-yeon Kim) announced the health insurance standard of Invega Sustenna(generic name: paliperidone palmitate), a schizophrenia treatment, will be changed from the 1st under the Ministry of Health and...
Price is the key in hepatitis C treatments directly sold from other countries
In the domestic hepatitis C treatment market, new drugs which were proved to have shorter treatment periods and less side effects have started to distinguish themselves one by one.
However, on the other side of all t...
Samsung to aim to become biopharmaceutical power
While the number of patents registered as biopharmaceutical product has continuously increased for the past 5 years, it was observed Samsung Electronics filed the most number of applications for antibody patent, also ...
Top 4 keywords for hangover drink, ‘effectiveness, convenient store, twenties and Yeomyoung 808'
When purchasing hangover drinks, consumers tend to consider ‘effectiveness’ the most, and people in the ‘twenties’ buy ‘Yeomyoung 808’ the most at ‘convenience stores.’
It was a result of the direct comparison analys...
‘Supect’ to become a primary treatment in leukemia
‘Supect,’ which has shown the power of domestic product in the flood of multinational pharmaceutical companies’ products, has overcome the obstacle of the secondary treatment. Having inexpensive price and proving exce...
