News About: Pharm. Industry
Insolent "Levitra Girl" CD distribution marketing activity.
Bayer Korea recently introduced a unique but insolent advertising character for Levitra titled "Levitra Girl" as a moving image on the screen targeted to physicians.
Bayer Korea made "Levitra Girl" CD taking almos...
Dongyoung Medical On-Line Pharmacy chain to launch.
An On-Line pharmacy chain company named "Dongyoung Medical Pharmacy Chain" was born under the merger of "Healthy Neighbour Pharmacy Chain" who mainly engaged in the alternative medicine starting from Jan. 1999 to cope...
Paxil CR to resume supplies through wholesalers from mid-july.
GSK Korea announced that Paxil CR (paroxetine hydrochloride controlled release) tablets, an anti-depression drug, would be resumed to supply through wholesalers from the middle of July.
GSK said on July 11 that the...
Patent disputes on Risperidon between Janssen Korea and Whanin.
Janssen Korea did not accept the lst court judgement on the Riperidon patent disputes allegedly infringed by Whanin, and filed an appeal to the high court right away.
Janssen Korea said "The patent registered by V...
Green Cross' phase II studies for anti-osteoporosis drug successful.
Green Cross announced that a new anti-osteoporosis drug, rhPTH (recombinant human parathyroid hormone) had completed its phase II studies successfully in Germany.
Its pre-clinical and phase I study had been succe...
Shinpoong's anti-malaria drug to launch phase II studies.
Shinpoong announced on July 8 that they conducted a phase II study (a test for effective dose determination) for an anti-malaria drug under the Shipoong's MMV (medicines for malaria venture) project in Thailand, Ugand...
Novartis to move "Clean Summer" campaign for Lamisil
Novartis has launched a promotional campaign called "Clean Summer" for Lamisil, an athlete foot drug, for the treatment of summer athlete foot infected in toe and finger nails during July.
The campaign initially m...
Total 59,802 employees from 802 pharmaceutical manufacturers.
As of the end of 2004 the total 802 pharmaceutical manufacturers of Korea had 59,802 employees including 11,325 office workers (18.9%), 21,092 salesmen (35.27%), 5,230 research workers (8.75%) and 19,620 production wo...
Health functional foods sold 44.6% up in May via On-Line.
The National Statistical Office reported that the total on-line sales of the health functional foods and other general foods in May amounted to 42.6 billion won, which was 13 billion won more than May last year and 3....
NHI coverage extended to Visudyne, a macular degeneration therpay.Novartis Korea's Visudyne (verteporfin), a photodynamic therapeutic drug for macular degeneration, took the government approval for the NHI coverage effective from July 1, 2005 ...
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