40% common cold patients to purchase OTC products at pharmacy

Four in 10 customers said that under the government's plan to lower health insurance benefits for treatment of minor diseases, such as common cold, from August, they are willing to purchase over-the-counter (OTC) drugs at pharmacy, a survey showed recently.

In the survey of 314 people (aged more than 20) between April 27 to May 26 by a local chapter of the Korea Pharmaceutical Association in...