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Lee calls for pharmaceutical firms’ all-out efforts to compete globally
President Lee Myung-bak said Thursday domestic pharmaceutical companies should strive to expand their presence in foreign markets without focusing on the small domestic market.
Lee made the remark during a regular ...
Letter size of quasi-drug to be enlarged
Makers of quasi-drugs will be obliged to enlarge the letter sizes of ‘brand name,’ ‘manufactured date’, ‘shelf life and ‘quasi-drug’ on the containers or packages of the products by at least 7 point, the Korea Food an...
Patients with hypertension, diabetes seek duplicate prescriptions
The National Health Insurance Corporation disclosed Tuesday that there are 385 people in the country who seek duplication medication between March and April in 2011, according to an analysis of health insurance data. ...
Drug purchase by card mileage points subject to taxation
The Tax Tribunal, a government agency under the umbrella of Prime Minister, said Monday it rejected a pharmacist's petition that the current regulation imposing a composite income tax to the use of card mileage points...
Government urged to activate public hospitals
Concern is growing that legalizing Korean commercial hospitals on Jeju Island and foreign for-profit hospitals in the Incheon Free Economic Zone would decimate the country’s universal health care system.
Critics c...
Korea to tighten import controls on banned chemicals
The government will strengthen controls over manufacture and imports of 23 chemicals, such as ephedrine, that can be used to make narcotics, in line with a global effort to prevent the inflow of such substances, healt...
Government urged to overhaul revised emergency treatment regulation
The recently revised enforcement regulations aimed at enhancing its emergency medical services should be further overhauled to reduce nation’s death rate of emergency patients, the National Assembly Research Service (...
Kwangju city ranks first in health index in 2010
Kwangju was the healthiest city felt by its citizens among Korea’s 16 cities and provinces in 2010, a report showed recently.
The city had the lowest smoking rate with lower incidence of large intestine cancer and ...
Debate reignited over for-profit hospitals
The government will allow for-profit foreign hospitals to operate in the free economic zone (FEZ) in Incheon, the Ministry of Health and Welfare said last April.
The ministry said it has drafted guidelines to enab...
Pediatric diseases on gradual rise
Diseases among the pediatric population aged 6 years or lower are rising, a state-run agency report said recently.
According to the National Health Insurance Corporation (NHIC), a ministry affiliate, the number of ...
