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- The MOHW has won the original drug price lawsuit
- by Lee, Jeong-Hwan Jan 25, 2022 05:55am
- The government won all dozens of lawsuits to cancel drug prices due to the expiration of original drug patents, but no civil lawsuits have been filed to get back drug benefits paid during the suspension period. The government says it is practically impossible to file a civil suit against individual pharmaceutical companies against dozens of d
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- MFDS has completed verification of the efficacy of Retevmo
- by Lee, Tak-Sun Jan 25, 2022 05:55am
- The RET (Rearranged during transfection)) gene target anticancer drug developed by Lilly seems to be at the end of the domestic approval process. It is a drug called Retevmo (Selpercatinib), which began licensing last year, and safety and efficiency evaluation have recently been completed and is about to be approved. According to the pharm
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- Xeloda in breast cancer patients is also reimbursed
- by Lee, Hye-Kyung Jan 24, 2022 05:55am
- The stage and target of administration of Roche Korea's breast cancer treatment Xeloda (Capecitabine) and Korean Pfizer's acute lymphocyte leukemia treatment Besponsa (Inotuzumab Ozogamicin) will be changed. With the establishment of a new chemotherapy benefit standard that has deleted the classification of anticancer drugs in the first and s
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- Improve the reimb system to accommodate high-priced drugs
- by Lee, Hye-Kyung Jan 21, 2022 05:56am
- The government expressed its will to reform the reimbursement management system with the emergence of super-expensive new drugs. At the ‘Forum for the reimbursement management of high-priced pharmaceuticals,’ Yoon Seok Yang, Director of Ministry of Health and Welfare’s Division of Pharmaceutical Benefits, said, “Concern is what I first fe
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- Alvogen targets the Korean market with a Spanish biosimilar
- by Lee, Tak-Sun Jan 21, 2022 05:56am
- Alvogen’s Korea is attempting to target the domestic anticancer drug market with a Spanish biosimilar. Its product is the third Avastin (bevacizumab) biosimilar to enter the market after Samsung Bioepis and Pfizer. On whether the new biosimilar will become a new sensation among latecomers in the market and is gaining attention. On the 19
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- Pt management is required to provide high priced 1 shot tx
- by Lee, Hye-Kyung Jan 21, 2022 05:56am
- Starting with Kymriah of Novartis Korea, which recently passed the HIRA Drug Reimbursement Evaluation Committee, the search for management measures for ultra-high-priced one-shot treatments has begun with Zolgensma, which is expected to enter Korea. In the end, the government's plan to manage the benefits of expensive drugs is a contract that
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- Dong-A ST enters Phase III trial for its new OAB treatment
- by Lee, Tak-Sun Jan 20, 2022 05:55am
- News of new drugs being developed by local companies are coming in one after another from early on this year. Dong-A ST, which had developed three new drugs including the erectile dysfunction treatment ‘Zydena (udenafil),’ antibiotic ‘Sivestro (tedizolid phosphate),’ and antidiabetic ‘Suganon (evogliptin),’ is also receiving attentio
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- SK Bioscience has completed recruiting phase 3 participants
- by Kim, Jung-Ju Jan 20, 2022 05:55am
- The COVID-19 vaccine GBP510, which is being developed by Korean companies, is undergoing phase 3 global clinical trials. The recruitment of 4,000 people from six countries has been completed. Today (18th), the government held the 26th meeting of the pan-government TF to support clinical trials of COVID-19 vaccines and treatments to discuss
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- Additional Paxlovid for 10,000 people will be introduced
- by Kang, Shin-Kook Jan 20, 2022 05:54am
- Prime Minister Kim Bu-gyeom announced that he would introduce an additional 10,000 servings at the end of this month as patients' condition improved after taking the COVID-19 treatment. Prime Minister Kim posted a message on his SNS on the 17th and said, "The prescription and administration of COVID-19 treatment began last week." He said,
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- Bill for Rotarix·RotaTeq to be covered by NIP
- by Lee, Jeong-Hwan Jan 19, 2022 06:06am
- A bill to promote the health of infants and young children while reducing consumer burden by including rotavirus vaccines in the National Immunization Program (NIP) is being promoted. If passed, the bill will turn GSK’s Rotarix and MSD’s RotaTeq that are already being used in Korea into free national vaccinations. Since the WHO recomme
