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Bill to promote unified treatment screening system
The ruling party is seeking to introduce a bill to unify three-insurance coverage health insurance, industrial accident insurance and auto insurance.
Rep. Chang Bok-sim of the party, who belongs to the Health and ...
800 OTCs with combined ingredients to be excluded from health insurance
The government plans to ask the national health insurance to cover only 100 OTCs with mixed components from this September, while 800-odd items, such as antipyretics, analgesics & anti-inflammatory agents, antacids an...
No interested in blood sugar test strips in pharmacies.
The retail pharmacies did not show any interests in the business of the blood sugar test strips despite a strong promotion by the Korea Pharmaceutical Association for the member pharmacies. The KPA launched this busin...
FTA on pharmaceutical issues to resume in New York in Sept.
The pharmaceutical issue on the KORUS FTA talks that went failure during the recent 2nd meeting in Seoul seems to be resumed in the 3rd New York meeting in coming Sept.
The U. S. side insisted to scrap the positive...
US intervention on drug prices is not acceptable, health ministry says
The government will push up ahead with the so-called positive system in September, under which only medicines proven effective but also price-competitive will be covered by the health insurance, according to the Minis...
Students rush to pharmacy schools
A growing number of students are applying to take entry tests for pharmacy schools in a move to seek more stable jobs amid soaring graduate unemployment.
In the first-cycle period for 2007 entry tests on July 1...
3,591 substitutive dispensing drugs under incentive plans.
The number of incentive and cheaper drugs for the substituted dispensing counted for 3,591 out of the total 3,952 drugs proven of its bio equivalency tests according to the list reported by the HIRA as of June 30, 200...
GSK sponsors symposium for Poliorix
GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) said on July 8 it sponsored its launching symposium for Poliorix at Hotel Shilla in Seoul.
Poliorix, an anti-poliomyelitis vaccine, is an inactivated poliovirus injectable vaccine containing 1...
KFDA and Industry meeting for bio equivalency test fraud issue.
The KFDA and the pharmaceutical industry group have met together to discuss the issue of the bio equivalency test fraud at the 2nd floor of KPMA auditorium at 3 p.m. on July 19 in presence of the KFDA Drug Division he...
Test group criticized bio equivalency test fraud.
It is pointed out that a simple discord of the test data should not be treated it as a data manipulation.
The Bio Equivalency Test Group organized with the faculty members of the college of pharmacies who took part...
