Author: Lynne Taylor

South Korea’s pharmaceutical market was worth around $9.9 billion last year and will grow around 3.5% annually to 2013, reaching a value of $15.1 billion by the end of that year, says a new report.

European Commission Vice President Gunter Verheugen says he is “more convinced than ever” that EU rules on the provision of information to patients regarding prescription drugs musto be updated.

General practice consultations in England soared in number from 217.3 million in 1995 to 300.4 million in 2008, according to new data.

Regulation and intervention by the UK government is needed to “save the pharmaceutical industry from its own worst enemy – itself,” says a new report.

Hospitals have been warned by the Department of Health that the practice of exporting drugs originally purchased for NHS use is “wholly unacceptable.”