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Pharmaceutical firms set sight on new TV channels
The battle to win the stake in new TV channel consortiums will be fierce among drugmakers as five pharmaceutical firms, Samyang Corp. and Dongkwang Pharm have pledged to hold some stake in each consortiums.
There a...
Law firms search for KFDA ex-officials
Ex-officials of the Korea Food and Drug Administration are receiving incessant love-calls from local top law firms after the recent implementation of new drug pricing reforms, such as cash incentive plan and dual sanc...
Hospital accreditation helps globalize domestic medical industry
Starting from January 31, the Ministry of Health and Welfare said it will operate its field inspection on the service quality of hospitals at the request of the hospitals who want to get an approval, according to the ...
Korea all-out to secure medicinal herbs amid soaring price
Medicinal herbs, such as Angelia, Cornus and Schizandra, are turning into rare commodities in the domestic oriental medicine market as their prices have gone up to 100-200 percent from a year earlier.
The shortages...
OTC selling at supermarkets emerging as blue ocean
As calls are growing for sale of over-the-counter drugs at supermarkets and convenient stores, pharmaceutical companies are busy hiding their big smiles.
Sources say pharmaceutical companies are quite happy with th...
Drug bills to rise at general hospitals
The government plans to increase medication fees prescribed in general hospitals from their current level of 30 percent to 60 percent as part of its efforts to discourage patients with relatively minor diseases from f...
73% support hospitals’ drug dispensing by individual patients
73 percent of citizens back the drug dispensing at medical centers, according to the Korean Hospital Management Center.
In a recent phone survey of 1,000 people conducted by the Korea Research last July, 73 percent...
Study shows ursodeoxycholic acid therapy holds promise
High-dose ursodeoxycholic acid (UDCA) therapy, an active ingredient of Ursa, has shown promising results for its safety and tolerability in the treatment of nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), according to Daewoong P...
JW Holdings to enhance corporate image
JW Holdings and its affiliated companies said Thursday it will introduce QR code based name card system in order to help boost their corporate image (CI).
This barcode is what known as a Quick Response or QR code, ...
Safety of IPA-containing painkillers should be clarified, KFDA says
The Korea Food and Drug Administration has ordered pharmaceutical firms, including Samjin Pharma and Bayer Korea, to conduct a joint research to investigate the safety of isopropylantipyrine (IPA) over side effects su...
