News About: Pharm. Industry
Aventis-Pasteur Korea to hold a symposium on vaccines.
Aventis Pasteur Korea, a vaccine manufacturing company, held a symposium at Lotte hotel in Busan and Shilla hotel in Seoul on Sept. 17 and 18 under the title of "Challenges towards better health in children" for pedia...
LIBIDO to go on sale in KoreaNeeds Pharm said it is distributing LIBIDO, a nutritional supplement, through direct importation from Norway.
LIBIDO contains extract of fertilised hen eggs, practically cho...
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Yuhan Corporation benefits from growing overseas demand
Despite its voluntary withdrawal of a popular brand Contac 600 containing controversial phenylpropanolamine (PPA) from the market in August, Yuhan Corporation said its stocks have risen 20.5 percent in the third quart...
GSK holds Avodart launching symposium
GlaxoSmithKline said on September 17 it held a launching symposium for Avodart (dutasteride), an oral medicine for treating symptomatic benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) in men.
Dr. Rosette said during the symposi...
2004 Osteoporosis Awareness & Diagnosis Campaign receives best marketing award
Handok-Aventis Pharma in Korea said that its 2004 Osteoporosis Awareness & Diagnosis Campaign in May has won the best marketing award for Actonel (risedronate sodium), a prescription medication to treat and prevent po...
Dongbang FTL wins for guggulsterol process patent
Dongbang FTL said it has recently obtained a process patent for guggulsterol, which has been implicated for the treatment of disorders such as gastrointestinal disturbances, pancreatitis, gastric and pancreatic carcin...
Korea's pharmaceutical imports exceeded 60.48% in first half
Korea's imports of pharmaceuticals, etc. in the first half of this year surged 60.48 percent to US$2.39 billion, which more than doubled a year earlier, according to data released by the Korea Pharmaceutical T...
Drug industry harshly to complete for big 3 and 4.
Among the domestic pharmaceutical companies, the top 3 and 4 positions are under the severe competition despite the fact that such rank contest did not make any meanings but its symbolic psyche.
The competition to ...
Wyeth Executive Vice President's visit boosts Korea's positioning in global market
Bernard J. Poussot, Executive Vice President and President of Pharmaceutical Divisionof Wyeth, visited Korea on September 19-20 with an aim to encourage the morale of employees and facilitate multinational clinical tr...
Foreign drug makers must overcome challenges from Korean competitors
Despite the brisk EDI (electronic data interchange) claim results for the first half of this year, foreign players like Pfizer are expected to face an uphill battle in Korea due to intensifying competition fro...
