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National health insurance should cover new anti-platelet drug, says professor
To reduce the mortality rate of thrombotic cardiovascular (CV) events within 12 months in patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS), the national health insurance needs to cover Brilinta (ticagrelor), a new platelet...
OTC drugs may be available at convenient stores from August
Customers will be able to buy 20 non-prescription drugs, such as those to help relieve headaches and minor indigestion that are classified as so-called over-the-counter drugs and sold in general stores in many other c...
New outlets to be available
The government is busy arranging 20 over-the counter (OTC) drugs, such as cold medicines and analgesics, to be available at 24-hour convenient stores from August.
A parliamentary health subcommittee on Monday appro...
65% of customers favor less expensive drugs
Almost seven out of every 10 Korean people consider drugs with more reasonable price, a survey released Monday showed.
In the survey by the Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service, 64.7 percent of the respo...
Assembly’s health and welfare subcommittee passes OTC drug sales bill
The National Assembly's health and welfare committee on Monday passed a bill to permit the sale of certain drugs at local supermarkets and general stores that could make it easier for people to buy medicine without go...
Costs of rare drugs
Will patients with multiple myeloma be able to get cheaper and better drugs this year? Now all eyes are on the Ministry for Health, Welfare and Family Affair committee's decision on the price of Revlimid (renalidomide...
Bacchus, digestives may be sold at supermarkets: court
A court ruled Friday that it was not unlawful to sell Bacchus, a popular energy drink, and digestives at supermarkets and convenient stores.
The Seoul Administrative Court ruled against 66 pharmacists who filed a s...
Parliamentary boycott likely to affect passage of OTC drug sales bill
A plan to allow the sale of over-the-counter drugs outside pharmacies is in doubt as the main opposition Democratic United Party (DUP) decided to reject the remaining parliamentary sessions on Thursday.
The Nationa...
Sale of painkillers, cold medicine at convenience stores is uncertain
A bill to revise the Pharmaceutical Affairs Law, designed to allow the sale of painkillers and cold medicines at convenience stores, is facing a major obstacle: lawmakers.
The plan, directed by President Lee Myung-...
Ministry mulls sales of Tylenol at convenient stores
The Ministry of Health and Welfare is considering the sales of non-prescription drugs at places other than pharmacies on the condition that only certain drugs should be sold at limited places that operate around the c...