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MFDS approves Adcetris to treat two types of lymphomaTakeda Korea said Monday that the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety (MFDA) approved Adcetris (brentuximab vedotin) to treat Hodgkin lymphoma (HL) and a rare lymphoma known as sys...
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Supermarkets to sell health supplements
The government is considering revising the Korean Pharmaceutical Affairs Law to allow health functional products such as vitamins and mineral products at supermarkets later this year, the Ministry of Food and Drug Saf...
Koreans’ willingness to pay per quality-adjusted life year analyzed
An adult Korean is willingness to pay an average of 30.5 million won a year to extend his/her longevity for one year, a new study found.
The average outlay of one year’s life expectancy is 20.5 million won in mild ...
Regional tax service agency audits heighten tension among local wholesalers
The wholesaling community in Busan is in panic mode as Busan Tax Service has launched its audits for four wholesalers from last Tuesday.
The tax service said that it will take three months to investigate the four w...
28 APIs to be contraindicated during pregnancy
The Ministry of Food and Drug Safety (MFDS) announced Wednesday a list of 28 active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) that will be additionally contraindicated in pregnancy from May 24.
The 28 APIs include abirater...
NHIC, doctors are on reconciliatory mode
The National Health Insurance Corporation (NHIC) and the Korean Medical Association (KMA) on Tuesday agreed to withdraw their complaints against each other to push for improvements in the state health insurance progra...
Negotiation on 2014 medical service fees kicks off
The National Health Insurance Corporation (NHIC) on Tuesday started its negotiation with six domestic healthcare organizations over next year’s medical and pharmaceutical service charges.
In its first meeting, the ...
NHI should cover Revlimid under risk-sharing agreements
Celgene Korea was in negotiations to agree a deal to make its cancer drug Revlimid more affordable to the National Health Insurance (NHI) last year, but failed to reverse a negative decision of the National Health Ins...
Doctors, pharmacists still in deadlock over drug prescription information
Doctors and pharmacists are locked in an impasse with the government showing no signs of backing down from their position on the long-stalled issues, such as mandatory duplicate prescription and drug information in wr...
Full coverage pledge for 4 major diseases draws mixed reactions
President-elect Park Geun-hye promised to cover costs of treating the four major diseases fully by 2016 during her campaign, raising the portion the government pays for medical costs gradually from the current level o...
