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Ilyang to conduct Phase 3 study on new leukemia drug
Ilyang Pharmaceutical Co. says it will carry out its Phase III clinical trial for a new leukemia medicine IY5511.
The study is to be conducted for 250 leukemia patients in the chronic and accelerated phases of the ...
Ilyang gearing up for new drug development
In order to secure seamless growth engines, Ilyang Pharmaceutical is gearing up for the development of new drugs.
In a general shareholders meeting Friday, President Kim Dong-yeon said that the company will create ...
Number of foreign patients rises 36%
The number of foreign patients was assumed to visit Korea for medical treatment was 81,789 last year, up 36 percent from the previous year, the Ministry of Health and Welfare said Thursday.
Last year’s figure on fo...
Foreign pharmaceutical stock holdings valued at 1.71 trillion won
The combined value of pharmaceutical stocks held by foreign investors in Korea has topped 1.71 trillion won as of May 26.
Accordign to Yakup.com, an information provider, foreign investors were holding 1.71 trillio...
Police probing multinational drug manfacturers over rebate
The police has begun investigating into foreign-invested pharmaceutical firms’ ndue business practices such as rebate-offering.
The police's latest investigation concerning the industry raised suspicions that more ...
KFDA to map out guideline over microdose study
The Korea and Drug Food Administration said it will draw up a new guideline on microdose clinical trials as part of efforts to improve the critical development path tha leads from scientific discovery to the patient.
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Health insurance should cover non-clinically effective generic products, KPMA says
The government is considering the conditional permit of some non-clinically effective generic drugs, but the Korea Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association says that the clinical effectiveness of such drugs should be ...
Dispensing charge set to determine next week
The National Health Insurance Corp. said Thursday that the dispening charges at pharmacy will be recalculated by the method per the frequency of patient visit.
So far, the pharmacy dispensing fee has been claimed b...
Drugmakers urged to cut corrupt ties with doctors, pharmacists
It has long been a “common practice'' for drug manufacturers to provide rebates to hospitals, doctors and pharmacists in return for prescribing and dispensing their products.
There is no doubt that such rebates are...
70% of people want to buy digestives at convenient store
Nearly 70 percent of Koreans hold positive views on convenience tor’s selling OTC medicines, a recent survey of 600 people aged 19 or over showed.
The majority of respondents said digestives and analgesics should b...
