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Drugmakers are in dilemma over rebate
Local pharmaceutical industry is in a mess how to cope with the current situation that some hospitals and doctors have continued to demand rebates from drug companies in return for purchasing their products, while the...
Health insurance to cover Afinitor
The negotiation ended Friday after a compromise was reached between the National Health Insurance Corp. and Novartis Korea on the insurance price of Afinitor (everolimus), a cancer drug to treat patients with subepend...
Daewoong opens Vytorin symposium
Daewoong Pharmaceutical said it held a local symposium titled “Vytorin Together Symposium” on July 12 after it signed a co-promotion agreement with MSD Korea.
About 200 Internal Medicine doctors gathered at the Seo...
KFDA to classify medicines without prejudices
The subcommittee meeting of the Central Pharmaceutical Affairs Council will be held on July 19 under the supervision of the Korea Food and Drug Administration.
The medicine classification committee will make a deci...
114 drugs pass bioequivalence testing in first half
The Korea Food and Drug Administration said Thursday that it approved a total of 114 bioequivalence-endorsed medicines in the first half of this year, down 35 percent compared with 176 drugs in the same period of last...
Court rules against LG Life Sciences in patent suit
Korea`s top court on Thursday dismissed claims by LG Life Sciences in a patent lawsuit against local drug firms over their antihypertensive drug, ending a nearly four-year legal battle.
The Supreme Court upheld lo...
Bayer Healthcare launches new corporate image campaign
A dramatically new advertising campaign from Bayer Healthcare seeks to bring viewers to a new level of understanding about the company and its positive impact on human life, expanding the reputation of the Bayer corpo...
Reckitt Benckiser eyes pharmacy market
Stimulated by the success of Gaviscon in Korea, Reckitt Benckiser, a global consumer goods company headquartered in Slough, United Kingdom, has recently released Strepsils, the world's largest-selling so throat medici...
Investigators raid Otsuka Korea in rebate probe
A total of 20 investigators from the Food and Drug Administration and the Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office raided the headquarters of Otsuka Korea in Seoul, Wednesday morning, as part of a widening investiga...
Pharmacists go to court over public hearing
The Korean Pharmaceutical Association filed an injunction with a court, Wednesday, to prohibit the ongoing public hearing over the government’s plan to allow the sale of some of over-the-counter drugs in stores other ...
