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Which drugs MFDS approved the most this year?
This year, the most therapeutic category approved by the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety was anticoagulants with 6 products, and it was followed by 3 products of anticancer drugs and antihypertensives respectively.
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National Assembly decides KRW 63.1554 trillion for MOHW next year
While the National Assembly concluded the next year’ budget, a budget for the Ministry of Health and Welfare was reportedly about KRW 63 trillion.
The government assigned KRW 63.2 billion increased by KRW 1.4 billion...
VP Sun-Ah Kim appointed as Pfizer Essential Health Japan Lead
Pfizer Pharmaceuticals Korea(CEO/President Dong-Wook Oh) announced appointment of Vice President Sun-Ah Kim as Pfizer Essential Health Japan Lead.
VP Sun-Ah Kim, who has managed the Pfizer Essential Health(PEH) APAC ...
Kangstem Biotech acquires approval of world’s first stem cell treatment for atopic dermatitis
Kangstem Biotech(CEO Tae-Hwa Lee) announced on the 5th that it acquired IND(Investigational New Drug) of a Phase III clinical trial for ‘Furestem-AD,’ the world’s first and only stem cell therapeutic product for atopi...
No. of days a pharmacy can sell ETC drugs is decreased to 3 days
In the areas excepted from the separation of drug prescribing and dispensing, the number of days a pharmacy can sell ETC drugs without doctors or dentists’ prescription will be reduced from 5 days to 3 days.
If a pha...
KPA had no ‘strategy’ over adjustment of emergency household medicines
In order to interrupt the extension of the convenient store medicine list, a chairman of policy at the Korean Pharmaceutical Association(KPA) injured oneself at a meeting.
Part of the association sympathized and resp...
Government would complete committee for emergency household medicine adjustment at 6th meeting within this month
While the 5th deliberative committee for adjustment of emergency household medicines, which was expected to be the last one, unexpectedly stopped, the committee decided to finalize it as soon as possible within this m...
Pfizer Korea & Chong Kun Dang sign distribution agreement of ‘Prevenar’ vaccines for adult
Pfizer Pharmaceuticals Korea(CEO Dong-Wook Oh) and Chong Kun Dang(CEO Young-Joo Kim) announced on the 1st that they signed a Korean distribution agreement of adult products for ‘Prevenar 13 Inj,’ a pneumococcal conjug...
President Chan-Hwi Cho, “I’ll turn the issue around”
“The pharmacists’ society got a step left for the extension of the convenient store drug list. However, I’ll turn this around.”
Korean Pharmaceutical Association President Chan-Hwi Cho said this about the list extens...
Zemiglo reached deadlock over ‘letter of application’ for marketing data
The LG Chem(former LG Life Sciences) and Sanofi Aventis’s ‘Zemiglo license trial’ have reached a deadlock over a level of turning in data and documents.
While LG Chem argues Sanofi is not providing necessary informat...
