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Additional medical records of approx. 40 million people leaked by HIRA
The Health Insurance Review & Assessment Service(HIRA) was discovered to provide data which include medical records to leading private insurance companies, Samsung Life Insurance and Kyobo Life Insurance, in Korea und...
Can pharma field touch CSOs, still suspicious as ‘Door for Rebates’?
The industry is paying attention to whether CSOs(contract sales organizations) will be investigated as a plan to eradicate illegal rebates, which has continuously suffocated the pharmaceutical industry.
In the circum...
“We’ll adjust health insurance benefits for disposable eye droppers using re-cap containers”
The Ministry of Food and Drug Safety(MFDS) announced to seek for a policy to support safe use of disposable eye droppers as adjusting their price by making a request to the Ministry of Health and Welfare(MOHW) to inhi...
Insurance Benefit Evaluation Committee assesses benefit for ‘Rupapin Tab’ and conditional uninsured for ‘Edarbi Tab’
The Health Insurance Review & Assessment Service Health Insurance Benefit Evaluation Committee held a meeting on the 27th and assessed propriety for health insurance benefits on 10 companies’ 15 products.
According t...
Pharmaceutical distribution companies having fiscal year on June record low profitability
Pharmaceutical distribution companies having a fiscal year on June reportedly made no huge earnings.
According to the analysis result of the 3 pharmaceutical distribution companies’ sales reported to the Financial Su...
Explosive increase of antibiotic resistance in local clinics, 80% up only in 8 years
The explosive increase of resistance to antibodies in clinics and long-term care hospitals has reportedly threaten the national health.
According to the data The Minjoo Party Rep. Jae-Sae Oh received from the Korea C...
Company must be responsible even for an employee’s deviant behavior
The Ministry of Health and Welfare(MOHW) announced to make a company responsible even for an employee’s deviant behavior related to illegal rebates as a rule and to create measures so that the company would not take e...
‘Korean Pharmaceutical Industry with Numbers’
The Korea Pharmaceutical and Bio-Pharm Manufacturers Association(Chairman Hee-Mok Won) had the 72th anniversary on this 26th. Starting as the Joseon Pharmaceutical Industry Association in 1945, the association has con...
Handok & Teva-Handok sign joint sales agreement of respiratory disease treatments in Korea
Handok Inc.(Chairman Young-Jin Kim) and Teva-Handok(CEO Sung-Dong Park) held an agreement ceremony for joint sales of Teva-Handok’s respiratory disease treatments at the Handok headquarters on 26 October.
Under the a...
Ildong Pharmaceutical’s challenge to market with its first novel chronic hepatitis B treatment ‘Besivo’ on 1 Nov
‘Besivo,’ the Ildong Pharmaceutical’s(CEO Woong-Sup Yoon) first novel drug and the Korea’s 28th novel drug, will be launched with the National Health Insurance benefit on 1 November. Its insurance benefit will be KRW ...
