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Practitioners protest oriental medicine insurance
Practitioners of traditional oriental medicine have expressed their opposition to an agreement that has recently reached between the government and the Association of Korean Medicine (AKM) to apply national health ins...
Cataract operations claim top spot on 2011 surgery list
Cataracts were the most frequently cited illness causing Koreans to head to the surgery room last year, the National Health Insurance Corp. (NHIC) said Sunday.
A total of 1.65 million individuals received one of 33...
KFDA to standardize names of 2,940 active ingredients
The descriptions of 2,940 active ingredients will be standardized to avoid that they are misunderstood as other chemical substances in the screening process for approval, according to the Korea Food and Drug Administr...
Bill calling for establishment of non-profit hospitals in free economic zones
A lawmaker Tuesday proposed a bill to allow non-profit foreign hospitals to operate in the free economic zone (FEZ)
The bill, proposed by Rep. Kim Yong-ik of the main oppsition Democratic United Party is designed t...
Government urged to come up with shortage of pharmacists
It is estimated there will be a deficit of 2,400 pharmacists in 2013-14, as a result of a transition period in school years from the current four to six from this year, according to pharmaceutical industry sources.
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Multiple myeloma patients calls for earlier insurance coverage of Revlimid
A group of patients suffering from multiple myeloma claimed that the national health insurance should cover Revlimid (lenalidomide) at an earlier date.
In a meeting with the National Health Insurance Corporation (N...
Heads of rural village may sell OTC drugs
The Ministry of Health and Welfare issued the newly revised regulation last Friday, in which heads of villages will be allowed to sell cold remedies, digestive tablets, and painkillers if there are no alternative plac...
Medical bills for ultrasonograms, tooth scaling will go down
The costs that individuals will have to shoulder for ultrasonograms and tooth scaling will go down from next year,
The measure, approved at a meeting of the ministry’s committee on medical reform on Thursday, is a...
Health insurance fee to rise 1.6%
The Ministry of Health and Welfare said Thursday it will raise health insurance premiums by 1.6 percent beginning next year.
Under the ministry's plan, individual subscribers and workplace subscribers must pay an a...
Health minister affirms new prescription plan needs doctors’ consensus
Health and Welfare Minister Rim Che-min indicated Wednesday that the new prescription plan requires doctors’ consensus.
Under the new plan, medical doctors will have to make prescriptions listing only chemical ingr...
