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Pharmacists feel inconvenient over possible sales of medical plasters at retail outlets
The Ministry of Health and Welfare said Thursday it has selected 13 non-prescription drugs to be sold at convenience stores and supermarkets from November.
The 13 items are five fever fighting drugs, two types of ...
Health ministry to monitor restriction free OTC drugs
As 13 household medicines are set to be sold at convenience stores from November 15, the Ministry of Health and Welfare plans to re-evaluate the effects of the deregulation, including customers’ response, in May next ...
Assembly picks Oh Jae-se as Health and Welfare Committee chairperson
The opposition Democratic United Party said Thursday that it completed the designation of its eight parliamentary standing committee chairs as the 19th National Assembly is set to open its first plenary session Mond...
Government urged to monitor PMS activities of original brand drugs
GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), a U.K.-based pharmaceutical and health care company will pay $3 billion in fines ― the largest health care fraud settlement in U.S. history ― for criminal and civil violations involving 10 drugs...
Government seeks to foster Korea’s medical service sector into global power
The Ministry of Strategy and Finance has unveiled its plan to find and financially support the country’s new growth engines, saying globalization has long been an agenda for Korea’s service industry due to its small d...
Females outnumbers males for pharmacy visit
More women in their 50s visited pharmacies than men for drug dispensing at pharmacy.
According to a report by the Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service, doctors issued 1,25,811,361 prescriptions in the fir...
Generic Boniva to hit markets
Osteoporosis drug Boniva (ibandronate sodium), a GlaxoSmithKline and Roche product, will soon face its first generic competitors.
Thirteen local pharmaceutical companies received the regulatory approval last month ...
93.7% of Koreans favors long-term insurance for elderly
Most Koreans feel that the long-term care insurance program for the elderly is needed, according to a survey.
The finding came from a survey of 932 people between June 13 and 15 by the National Health Insurance Co...
Elderly account for 33.3% of nation's spending on health
Senior citizens accounted for 33.3 percent of healthcare costs covered by the National Health Insurance Corporation (NHIC) last year, a state-run agency report said Sunday.
The National Health Insurance Corp. (NHIC...
Convenient stores to sell OTC drugs from November
Twenty over-the-counter (OTC) drugs including analgesics, cold medicine and digestive tablets will be sold at convenience stores from November 15, the Ministry of Health and Welfare said Friday.
The government allo...
