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Prices of three original drugs price to fall by 20 percent
The Ministry of Health and Welfare said on July 12 that health insurance price of three items GSK's GSK's Lamictal tablets, Pfizer's Detrusitol (tolterodine tartrate) tablets 1mg/4 mg will be reduced by 20 percent f...
EU demands more wider access to domestic pharmaceutical sector
Negotiations with the European Union are likely to be tougher than expected also because of Brussels' interest in wider access to Korea's pharmaceutical sector.
"In pharmaceuticals, the EU's call to open up Korea i...
HIRA to confirm NHI payments by 5 different service groups.
The National Health Insurance Review Council (Review council) announced the revised NHI payment plan on July 11 covering that the NHI payment would be made by 5 different healthcare services such as hospitals, clinics...
Novartis Korea to resubmit world data for Sebivo.
Novartis Korea was embarrassed at encountering the NHI price approval rejection for Sebivo (telbivudine), a chronic B hepatitis therapy on July 12, and CEO Andrin Oswald of Novartis Korea regretted to say "No chances ...
Pharmacists to return smaller packets of Reductil
Pharmacists will be compensated for small packages of Reductil (sibutramine), an anti-obesity agent as Abbott Korea and Ilsung Pharm agreed to replace the drugs by new versions.
In its reply to the petition raised ...
KFDA favorably responded to pharmacy circles on safe container issue.
The KFDA may conduct a survey on the problems linked with the safe drug containers that were provisionally required to supply but raised a lot of complaints by the retail pharmacy communities.
A KFDA official said...
cGMP consulting business will be hot
cGMP consulting is expected to emerge as a flourishing business as the Food and Drug Administration (KFDA) plans to implement, by phase, the cGMP system until 2010 in a bid to upgrade its GMP level to that of advanced...
Civic groups asking for Diane 35 registration to change.
Civic groups including Korean pharmacist for democratic society (KPDS) and Health Right Network (HRN) took a press interview on June 13 and called for a penalty against the exaggerated advertising of "Diane 35" and a ...
Medical service charge system to be streamlined
The government will provide comprehensive medical treatment charge system to reduce personal medical spending, the Ministry of Health and Welfare said on July 11.
As part of the nation's ambitious future health str...
Pharmaceutical drug makers advised to increase cash investment in government projects
Local drug makers, which intend to take part in the government-funded research and development projects, will have to increase their cash investment up to 90 percent.
In a R&D project requiring 1.0 billion won, fo...
