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870 million won refunded from SNU hospitals on false charges.
Rep. Jeon Jae-hee said in the government inspection and audit on Sept 27 that according to the false and unfair hospital charges from 2001 to the first half this year, Seoul National University hospital paid back as m...
Daewoong to patent pravastatin composite for prolonged efficacy.
Daewoong announced that a composite of sodium pravastatin with co-polyvidon was patent registered for the improvement of its stability and thereby prolonged efficacy characterized in which co-polividon protect pravast...
Exaggerated advertising problems with 100% glucosamine products.
A necessity of ruling a false and exaggerated public advertising on 100% of glucosamine preparations has been strongly raised by Rep. Kim Seon-mi of the Uri Party, the National Assembly Health and Welfare Committee, d...
Phendimetrazine preparations for diet ranked second in the world.
A consuming volume of Phendimetrazine, an anorexiant, in Korea ranked the 2nd and of Phentamine the 3rd in the world.
Rep. Lee Ki-woo of the Uri Party, National Assembly, said in the government inspection and audi...
7,260 of banned antihistaminic, Terfenadine still on prescribing.
Terfenadine, an anti-histaminic drug, was banned to sell due to fatale adverse reactions in the past, but still about 7,260 prescriptions were found to use terfenadine, raising a serious drug safety problem.
Rep. K...
Human placenta preparations to review by end of this year.
Chief KFDA commissioner Kim Jeong-sook said in replying to Rep. Kim Seon-mi during the government inspection and audit meeting at the National Assembly on Sept. 26 that the review on the human placenta preparations sh...
"User's fee payment" system to adopt from next year.
A user's fee payment system, a payment system by the new drug applicant at their own expenses, seems to be adopted from the next year after completing its studies around coming Dec.
Rep. Ahn Myeong-ok of National ...
Drug makers getting larger after medical reform system.
After the implementation of the medical and pharmacy practice separation system the pharmaceutical manufacturers with over 200 billion won (BW) of annual sales showed ever increasing trends from 5 in 2000, when the sy...
National Assembly to reveal unfair NHI bills.
Rep. Moon Byeong-ho of the Uri party said in the government inspection and audit meeting on Sept. 22 that the unfair medical and pharmacy bills were 73,000 won on average charged by a pharmacy and 400 thousand won by...
CKD to patent an anti-sepsis drug, CKD-712 in Korea.
Chongkundang (CKD) announced on Sept. 22 that CKD-712, an antibacterial agent for the treatment of sepsis and a derivative of Tetrahydroisoquinolone compounds and its manufacturing process had completed to patent in K...
