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Per capital medical bill highest in North Jeonnam Province
People residing Buan-gun, North Jeonnam Province spent per capita annual average of 1.8 million won on medical and healthcare services in 2010, a whopping 3-fold figure over 720,000 won in Suwon, Kyunggi Province, acc...
KFDA to reclassify 500 medicines
The Korea Food & Drug Association (KFDA) said Tuesday that it has nearly completed the re-classification of all 6,630 drugs as part of measures to reduce customers' inconvenience in buying drugs and strengthen monitor...
Concerns growing over 24-hour large discount stores
As an increasing number of regions are trying to limit business hours at large discount stores and super supermarkets, pharmacists are attentively watching the situation.
Now that the National Assembly is likely to...
Assembly likely to pass OTC drug sales bill
The ruling and opposition lawmakers agreed to extend the current extraordinary session until March 16 to deal with bills left unattended at each standing committee.
Among them is an OTC drug sales bill, which the N...
640 essential medicines to exempt from price-cut plan
A total of 640 essential drugs, including amino acid infusions, will be excluded from the government’s plan to slash the price of about half the drugs on the market by an average of 14 percent from April, according to...
Gastritis patients growing
A growing number of Koreans are experiencing gastritis, a condition in which the stomach lining—known as the mucosa—is inflamed, health officials said recently.
According to the National Health Insurance Corporatio...
State-run health insurance sees huge surplus in 2011
After fears that its reserves would be depleted in a not-too-distant future, the national health insurance fund was 600.8 billion won in the black last year and had 1.56 trillion won in reserves.
The National Healt...
1 in 6 Korean adults suffers from metal disorder
One in six Koreans has experienced mental disorder over the past year, the Ministry of Health and Welfare said Wednesday.
According to a survey of 6,022 people nationwide aged between over 18 and 74, which was cond...
Medical bills fixed for 7 treatments from July
Beginning July, medical fees to cover the treatment of seven diseases will be fixed and covered by the national health insurance scheme, the Ministry of Health and Welfare said Wednesday.
The seven treatments are c...
Government urged to allow patients to buy at hospital
The Korean Hospital Association called on the government to allow hospitals to sell prescription drugs.
In a symposium held on Wednesday, the association said that about 2.7 million members from 629 hospitals joine...
