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- PBAC provides cost-effectiveness data to improve integrity
- by Lee, Hye-Kyung Jun 17, 2021 06:04am
- The Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service's Pharmaceutical Management Department was selected as 'best project' among 'self-promoted projects to improve integrity’ for its efforts in improving standard forms and expanding information disclosure systems. The department worked to improve integrity by clarifying and making transparent
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- Ruling/opposition parties fight over supply & COVID vaccine
- by Lee, Jeong-Hwan Jun 15, 2021 05:53am
- Political circles of the ruling and opposition parties have launched a special committee on the COVID-19 vaccine and TF respectively, and are checking each other over the status of vaccine supply and vaccination performance. The ruling party has been announcing the results of COVID-19 vaccine since the Korea-U.S. summit, while the main opp
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- President Moon talks with AZ CEO at G7 Summit
- by Kim, Jung-Ju Jun 15, 2021 05:53am
- South Korean President Moon Jae-in met with Pascal Soriot, CEO of AstraZeneca, to ask for the company’s continuous support in supplying COVID-19 vaccines to Korea in the second half of this year. AstraZeneca responded positively to the request and replied that it hopes to continue a long-standing relationship with SK Bioscience as one of it
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- GC Pharma is working on developing DM combination drugs
- by Lee, Tak-Sun Jun 15, 2021 05:52am
- GC Pharma is busy building a lineup of ARB-based hypertension drugs called Candesartan. If Atacand, which is Candesartan's original product, has been sold for a long time, it can be seen as a measure to actively utilize its distribution network. It is currently pushing for development of other complexes in addition to single and two complexes
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- Hepatitis C Txs are rapidly being replaced with new drugs
- by Lee, Tak-Sun Jun 14, 2021 05:56am
- Chronic hepatitis C treatments are being withdrawn from the market as new drugs are released. Roche's Pegasys, a treatment for hepatitis B and C infection, eventually withdrew from the Korean market. Pegasys PFS products were revoked on the 8th. Pegasys, which was approved in Korea in 2004, was expected to be a hepatitis C treatment in
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- 1 in 5 people received COVID-19 vaccinations in Korea
- by Kim, Jung-Ju Jun 11, 2021 05:53am
- With the number of daily COVID-19 cases constantly in the 500 range, over 10 million people in Korea have received one or more shots of COVID-19 vaccines. This is nearly 20% of the total population, in other words, 1 out of 5 people in Korea have now been vaccinated. In the midst of the increasing outdoor activities and the upcoming summe
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- Moderna vaccine, 100% effective for Asians in clinical trial
- by Lee, Tak-Sun Jun 11, 2021 05:53am
- Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine has been shown to be 100% effective in Asian clinical trials. However, there is a limit to reaching a meaningful conclusion because there are fewer test subjects. The minutes of the Central Pharmaceutical Affairs Review Committee, released by the MFDS on the 7th, contain this information. The Central Pharmaceutic
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- OTC combination drug with APAP-IBU, not approved again
- by Lee, Tak-Sun Jun 11, 2021 05:53am
- OTC approval of APAP-IBU complex has failed again. Experts who participated in the review objected to the permission on the grounds that safety issues had not been resolved. According to the Central Pharmaceutical Affairs Review Committee minutes released on the 7th, seven out of 10 members opposed the OTC approval of Acetaminophen-Ibuprof
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- 5 companies' developing vaccines have completed Phase I
- by Kim, Jung-Ju Jun 10, 2021 05:55am
- The development products of five companies that are developing domestic COVID-19 vaccines have all been found to have completed phase 1 clinical trial and entered the next stage Depending on the product, some vaccines are aimed at entering phase 3 clinical trials as early as next month (July). The MOHW reported the status of vaccine develo
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- 200 million tablets of Acetaminophen are available
- by Kim, Jung-Ju Jun 9, 2021 06:07am
- The government has stressed that Acetaminophen is well stocked before more people are vaccinated. Pre-dosing before inoculation does not fit medical information and does not require purchasing only certain brands (ex:Tylenol). COVID-19 Central Disaster and Safety Counters Headquaters (CDSCHQ) told in a regular briefing this afternoon that
