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More pharmacies to open at night from May 20
From May 20, more pharmacies nationwide will be opened all year round and duty-pharmacies open at night on a rotating basis to give consumers wider access for non-prescription medicines, according to the Korean Pharma...
Government to reduce drug dispensing fee
The Ministry for Health, Welfare and Family Affair committee will decide on the drug dispensing/management fee on July 14.
For the reassessment and cutbacks of the fee, the health ministry has applied a collective ...
Doctors challenge medical reform
The health ministry unveiled its plan to clarify the different functions of general hospitals and private clinics to prevent general hospitals from being crowded with patients with mild symptoms.
General hospitals...
Drug makers spend 6.3% of revenue on R&D in first quarter
Details of drug company spending, revealed by Yakup com., showed that the country's 51 pharmaceutical companies on average spent 6.32 percent of their revenue on research and development (R&D) in the first half, much ...
Finance minister seeking to lift OTC restriction
Ministry of Strategy and Finance Park Jae-wan said Friday that his ministry will push up with a plan to sell over-the-counter (OTC) drugs outside pharmacies.
In a press briefing, Park said that the ministry will ca...
Health minister remains unchanged over OTC sales
Minister of Health and Welfare, who was chided by President Lee Myung-bak on Tuesday morning for over-the-counter drug restriction, said that the ministry will try to protect consumer convenience, adding it will facil...
OTC liver protectives sales grow 36% in first quarter
Sales of OTC liver protective in domestic market jumped 36 percent, to 21.5 billion won, in the first half this year compared with the same period from a year earlier, thanks much to companies’ effective advertisement...
Many pharmacies neighboring at hospitals will shut down, KPA says
Pharmacies nearby large and small hospitals have enjoyed affluent income thanks to increasing number of prescriptions, but many pharmacies will have to put their shutters down if the drug dispensing/management fees ar...
Doctors, pharmacists clash over OTC medicines
Disputes are arising between doctors and pharmacists over the controversial issue to allow over-the-counter medicines at supermarkets.
While the pharmacists claim that medicines have to be sold to consumers through...
Doctors demand resignation of health minister
The Korean Medical Association (KMA) Tuesday called for the resignation of Health Minister Jin Soo-hee, denouncing her failure to implement a plan to allow the sale of over-the-counter (OTC) drugs at supermarkets.
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