News About: Goverment
It is allowed to turn in ‘patients’ medical record’ without consent to cooperate with investigative agencies
The current law was interpreted that health care providers did not need to acquire consents from patients as long as they do not unfairly infringe their benefits when submitting patient information to an investigative...
“We accept necessity of adding antacids into the emergency household medicines list”
As necessity of adding antacids in the list of emergency household medicines is accepted, they will discuss about which specific products to add in the list.
The Ministry of Health and Welfare(Minister Neung-Hoo Park...
MFDS extensively develop QbD mode to raise competitiveness of pharma industry
The Ministry of Food and Drug Safety(MFDS) will extensively develop the ‘Quality by Design(QbD) system’ model to strengthen completeness of the Korean pharmaceutical industry.
Quality by Design, a new paradigm in dru...
‘Final meeting’ for emergency household medicines starts finally
The final meeting arranged to adjust emergency household medicine products was held after the long postponement for 1 year and 6 months.
The Ministry of Health and Welfare(MOHW) held the ‘6th Deliberative Committee f...
57 Chinese Rundu’s Valsartan products suspended health insurance benefits
Betond Huahai’s ingredients, there were other Valsartan products with issues.
The Ministry of Health and Welfare(MOHW) gave a notice about this through its own system to inform about products with suspended health in...
‘Valsartan’ products using Chinese ingredients detected too much ‘NDMA’
The Ministry of Food and Drug Safety(MFDS) announced on the 6th that Daebong LS went exceeded with the regulated level of NDMA, a carcinogenic factor, by using the Chinese ‘Varsartan’ ingredients in processing their p...
‘Integrated 6-year curriculum’ decided at Cabinet meeting for pharmacy colleges
The regulation will be revised for all the 35 colleges of pharmacy to choose their own curriculum between the ‘integrated 6 year’ and ‘2+4 year’ programs from the year of 2022.
The Ministry of Education announced del...
“We are creating infrastructure for industrial development, such as AI new drug development”
The Ministry of Health and Welfare’s(MOHW) announced they would establish foundations for improvement of the pharmaceutical industry, such as new drug development using artificial intelligence(AI), governmental suppor...
Government to support KRW 42 billion into new medical devices using AI and robotics
The government will develop new medical device technology using artificially intelligence and robotics, such as ‘AI personalized prosthetic hand’ and ‘VR-based rehabilitation device for cranial nerves.’
Ministry of S...
MOHW to stop multinational pharmas’ arrogation with global cooperation
In order to stop multinational pharmaceutical companies’ arrogation on drug price, Health and Welfare Minister Neung-Hoo Park will work with other countries’ health authorities.
He meant to take on actions on what he...
