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Industry requests postponement of drug reimbursement reevals
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Lee, Tak-Sun
Jul 8, 2025 06:37am
The pharmaceutical industry has expressed the need to postpone next year's drug reimbursement reevaluations to the government. The reason is that the reevaluation targets have not been decided by the second half of the year, leaving insufficient time for the target companies to prepare the necessary data. As a result, some are even sugges
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V-olet challenges to become a blockbuster fat-destroying inj
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Nho, Byung Chul
Jul 8, 2025 06:36am
Daewoong Pharmaceutical's V-olet Inj, a deoxycolic acid (DCA)-based fat-destroying injectable, is garnering attention as it implements an external expansion strategy to become a global blockbuster drug, following Nabota Inj. Launched in 2021, V-olet Inj is an injectable that demonstrates significant improvement in moderate-to-severe bulgi
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Low-strength salt-modified Pristiq now available
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Lee, Tak-Sun
Jul 8, 2025 06:35am
Companies with salt-modified formulations of the antidepressant Pristiq (desvenlafaxine succinate monohydrate) are strengthening their market competitiveness with a 25mg low-strength product that had not been available in the original or generic formulations. With price adjustments near due to the entry of generics, attention is focused o
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Novo Nordisk's injectables are in short supply
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Nho, Byung Chul
Jul 8, 2025 06:35am
Novo Nordisk's diabetes insulin injections are experiencing a short-term shortage, causing supply difficulties in prescribing settings in Korea. The products with limited supply include NovoRapid Flexpen¡¤Novomix Flexpen¡¤Levemir Flexpen. Novo Nordisk sent a notice to distributors, pharmacies, hospitals, and clinics late last month, inf
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KPDS ¡®Gov¡¯t action needed to counter price hike pressure¡¯
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Jul 8, 2025 06:35am
The Korean Pharmacists for Democratic Society (President: Kyung-Lim Jeon, KPDS) urged the government to take decisive action against Trump and multinational pharmaceutical companies' pressure to raise drug prices. In a statement released on the 4th, the KPDS stated: ¡°Trump signed an executive order on May 12 demanding a reduction in drug
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PCV21 emerges¡¦evidence-based vaccination policies discussed
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Whang, byung-woo
Jul 7, 2025 06:10am
"To improve pneumococcal disease prevention in Korea, an evidence-based pneumococcal vaccination policy is essential. It's crucial to evaluate the efficacy of existing vaccines and conduct cost-effectiveness assessments for new vaccines based on domestic data." Despite the implementation of the National Immunization Program (NIP), pneumococca
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PKU drug Sephience receives orphan drug designation in KOR
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Eo, Yun-Ho
Jul 7, 2025 06:10am
Sephience, a new drug for phenylketonuria (PKU), a rare metabolic disorder, has been designated as an orphan drug in Korea. The Ministry of Food and Drug Safety recently announced so through a public notice. Specifically, the drug is indicated&160;for the treatment of hyperphenylalaninaemia (HPA) in adult and pediatric patients with ph
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Boryung's follow-on Lenvima, 'Lenvanib,' becomes reimbursed
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Lee, Tak-Sun
Jul 7, 2025 06:09am
Boryung has successfully obtained reimbursement listing for all dosages of 'Lenvanib Cap (lenvatinib mesylate dimethyl sulfoxide),' its follow-on drug to the anti-cancer medication Lenvima (lenvatinib mesylate, Eisai), which is used to treat conditions such as liver cancer. With the patent dispute with the original manufacturer, Eisai, sti
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MFDS reviews GMP standards for sterile preparations abroad
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Lee, Hye-Kyung
Jul 7, 2025 06:09am
With the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety planning to enforce revised GMP standards for sterile drug products reflecting PIC/S international standards in December, it plans to identify research tasks on items that require international harmonization by analyzing the regulatory status of reference countries. Ahead of its re-entry into PIC/S in
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¡®Need to institutionalize reinvestment of funds into R&D'
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Kim, Jin-Gu
Jul 7, 2025 06:09am
A recommendation was made for the implementation of a system that reinvests the savings from drug price reductions by pharmaceutical and biotech companies into R&D for new drugs and ensures a fixed price during the early stages of a new drug's market launch. Professor Jeonghoon Ahn of the Department of Convergence Health Sciences at Ewha
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