News About: Goverment
Eliquis, Jakavi added to green list in April
Several original brands, including BMS-Pfizer’s Equiquis and Novartis’s Jakavi and Boehringer Ingelheim’s Trajenta, were added to a list of patents associated with drug products in April, the Ministry of Food and Drug...
Can national health insurance to cover Revlimid?
Patients with multiple myeloma have pinned high hopes that Revlimid (lenalidomide) may be covered by national health insurance this year as the recent survey showed that a number of people want more high-priced cancer...
Lawmaker submits a bill to prevent non-pharmacists’ drug dispensing in military
An opposition party lawmaker has submitted a bill calling for introducing a public health pharmacist system to curb increasing cases of drug dispensing acts by non-pharmacists in the military and deal with drug relate...
Government urged to expand health insurance coverage
Many people have called on the government to increase its insurance coverage to high-priced cancer medicines, various imaging tests (MRI, PET, CT) and instruments used for nerve and heart surgeries, the Ministry of He...
Pharmacists fears backlash from recall of Tylenol syrups
The Ministry of Food and Drug Safety (MFDS) said Tuesday that it had prohibited the sales of two children’s Tylenol syrup products due to a possible manufacturing problem that may have increased the concentration of t...
Increasing cases of side effects reported for Tylenol
The number of reports on side effects from taking Tylenol (acetaminophen) has increased in recent years.
According to data by Yakup.com, a pharmaceutical information portal, the cases of side effects caused by Tyl...
Beefed-up audits heighten tension among drug makers
Local drug firms are in panic mode ahead of audits by the National Tax Service (NTS), which plans to examine pharmaceutical companies accused of providing kickbacks to doctors or hospitals in return for prescribing th...
People diagnosed with dementia aged over 65 triple in 6 years
The number of Koreans suffering from dementia more than tripled over the past six years fueled by the rapid aging of the country's population, a report by the National Health Insurance Corporation (NHIC) showed Sunday...
Chang Byung-won tapped as new KFDA deputy chiefThe Korea Food and Drug Administration (KFDA) has tapped its senior official Chang Byung-won as its new deputy chief, the health watchdog said today.
Chang served various po...
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Hospitals slammed for overcharging patientsHospitals collected a combined amount of 4.5 billion in medical fees by charging more than necessary to patients last year, according to a lawmaker.
They were ordered to pay ...
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