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Increasing interests in digestive endoscopy created a boom for stomach cleansers
Interests in gastrointestinal endoscopy has been largely raised as colorectal cancer incidence increases recently. Even in a symposium, thus, stomach cleansers for endoscopy took a large portion.
The Korean Society o...
OTC cold medicines for children are prohibited to be used under 2
Among OTC drugs, cold medicines for children will be prohibited to be administered under 2.
The Ministry of Food and Drug Safety judged necessity to revise the precaution about volume and usage of OTC cold medicines ...
The prescription change rate has decreased every year since provision of DUR information
Assemblyperson Chong-jin Lee from the Saenuri Party, a member of the National Assembly Health and Welfare Committee, has expressed concern that provision of information about the DUR system, which has been adopted to ...
Procoralan was expanded in the health insurance benefit while Entresto created a new paradigm by FDA approval
- ‘Procoralan(generic name: ivabradine)’ meets a new era by expansion of the health insurance benefit
Procoralan(Servier Korea, generic name: ivabradine) was first approved as a ‘chronic stable angina’ treatment in 2...
Labels and advertisements of immune stimulation products have made a huge decline
While the health functional food market has gotten on a downturn after the cynanchum wilfordii crisis, red ginseng has been well magnified in the market. Also, lutein and milk thistle extract have also stood out as we...
The hyperlipidemia treatment market will face KRW 1 trillion soon while statin is unparalleled
The hyperlipidemia treatment market is growing explosively. The size of prescriptions was approximately KRW 786.8 billion in the market last year. It was increased by 9.9%, expected to exceed KRW 1 trillion easily aft...
Sharp growth of multivitamin supplements such as Aronomin and Actinum
The multivitamin supplement market has made significant growth by launches of new products and the MERS impact.
Particularly, entries of products of foreign companies, such as Actinum Ex Plus and Centrum Advance, hav...
Overcoming the ‘hypoglycemia side effect,’ basal insulin have newly emerged in 7 years
Basal insulin are going to be newly launched in the domestic market in 7 years. They have secured both long-acting effectiveness and convenience to only administer once a week.
However, an unfavorable part for the pr...
The news informing a premium flu vaccine is ‘free’
Novartis’s ‘Fluad,’ which debuted as a seasonal premium flu vaccine for elders over 65, has been largely supplied through the ‘National Immunization Program(NIP)’ this season.
Although Fluad was recognized as a premi...
‘Stribild’ unveiling its research for the first time stated “We will lead HIV treatment”
‘Stribild,’ which has opened the new era of single-tablet complex drugs in the HIV/AIDS treatment, has continuously expanded its position. Although relatively starting as a last mover, the product has been increased i...
