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3.5% NHI price raise in 2006.
The National Health Insurance Corporation (NHIC) and the NHI Payment and Expense Council (called Council) met together at Palace hotel from 8 p.m of Nov. 15 to 1:28 a.m of Nov. 16 and decided to raise 3.5% up of 2006 ...
Sam-A to prove stability of Camodix suspension.
Sam-A announced that the stability of Camodix suspension, a combined antibiotic of clavulanic acid and amoxicillin was verified by a study presentation titled "A comparative study for the stability of Camodix suspensi...
KPA to supervise pharmacies for irregular practices.
The Korea Pharmaceutical Association (KPA) launched a national supervision for the irregular and illegal pharmacy practices including a collusion of prescription and dispensing, discounted dispensing fees and unfair d...
Anti-appetite drugs to prescribe no more than 4 weeks.
The KFDA notified to the relevant groups on Nov. 15 that phentermine and other anti-appetite and psychotropic drugs should not be prescribed for more than 4 days for the prevention of its abuse nor combined with anti-...
KPMA to aid 450 million won worth of drugs to Pakistan.
The KPMA said on Nov. 15 that about 446 million won worth of drugs were donated by 27 member companies as an aid for the recent earthquake victims in Pakistan, which will be delivered them through the International He...
AstraZeneca Korea to hold "Galaxy launch symposium".
AstraZeneca (AZ) will conduct "Galaxy launch symposium" mainly for the physicians working at general hospitals in 4 major cities of Korea starting first from Seoul.
Galaxy program is a large scale of clinical study...
Prescriptions to show drug's brand name with therapeutic group.
To satisfy the consumer's rights-to-know, all physician's prescription sheets should show description of the brand name of drugs with its therapeutic group.
Rep. Kim Seon-mi of the National Assembly said that the ...
GSK to recruit clinical testee for cervix cancer vaccine.
GSK Korea announced to recruit the clinical testee for the phase III clinical studies of HPV vaccine for the prevention of woman's cervix cancer, which was scheduled to perform at 8 hospitals across the nation includi...
KFDA to regulate containers for solid oral drugs.
The KFDA has announced the ordinance for the regulation of drug safe containers and packages, which controlled the drug containers only for liquid oral drugs (syrups and solutions) so far but will extend the same regu...
Private profitable hospital operation too early in Korea.
The National Health Insurance Corporation (NHIC) took a lecture meeting on Nov. 11 at the conference hall by inviting a special speaker, Prof. DAvid Mimmelstein of Harvard Univ. Medical School, who is an expert in the...
