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Government to order replacement of Joins related ingredients
The Korea Food and Drug Administration will ask two local drug ingredient manufacturers to replace the Chinese supplier of SK Chemicals’ Joins related raw materials in a move to protect consumers from the substandard ...
Diet supplements increasingly popular
The local dietary supplement market has been briskly expanded for the last five years thanks to increasing number of health-conscious Koreans, according to the Korea Food and Drug Administration.
The drug agency sa...
Lawmakers propose “board certification” bill for doctors
A group of the governing Grand National Party (GNP) lawmakers submitted a bill on March 2 to the National Assembly to introduce a board certification for doctors, dental doctors, oriental doctors and nurses.
Rep. S...
Health insurance covers Galvusmet
Galvusmet, a twice-daily combination of vildagliptin and metformin, get listed in national health insurance from this month, according to Novartis Korea and Handok Pharm.
Two strengths of Glavusmet 50/850 mg and 50...
Choong-wae to export imipenem antibiotics to China
Choong-wae Holdings said on March 3 it has signed an agreement with Tianjin Huaya Pharma of China to export its imipenem antibiotics, Pripenem, to China for the next three years.
Imipenem is a broad-spectrum antibi...
Boryung files drug application for novel antihypertensive agent
Boryung Pharmaceutical Co., one of Korea's largest pharmaceutical companies, said on March 3 that it has filed an application of a new antihypertensive drug (fimasartan) to the Korea Food and Drug Administration.
F...
KPMA yet to nominate head of emergency committee
The Korea Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association (KPMA), in the top executive and advisory group meeting on March 3, failed to elect a head of the emergency committee.
In a press conference, Yoon Suck-keun, an ac...
Health Insurance Reform Committee to be launched
The National Health Insurance Corporation (NHIC) is rolling up its sleeves to put its key health insurance reform drive into high gear.
To this end, the corporation said on March 2 that it will newly set up a Healt...
Health insurance allowances total 39.42 trillion won in 2009
The Health Insurance Review Assessment and Service said on March 3 that Korea’s health insurance payments last year amounted to 39.42 trillion won, up 12.3 percent compared with 35.36 trillion won from a year earlier....
Daewoong releases orally disintegrating tablet, Harunosin D (tamsulosin) tablet
Daewoong Pharm announced on March 2 that it has marketed Harunosin D (tamsulosin) tablet, a dosage form for the treatment for functional symptoms of benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) in Korea.
Harunosin D tablet c...
