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Koh Kyung-suk named health & medical policy chief
The Ministry of Health and Welfare on Friday named Koh Kyung-suk, incumbent Social & Welfare Policy Chief, as the new Health & Medical Policy Chief in a partial shakeup.
The ministry also nominated Park Yong-hyun a...
Korean Parliament ratifies FTA with US
The National Assembly on Tuesday passed the long-pending Korea-U.S. free trade agreement, with the ruling Grand National Party pressing ahead with the ratification process despite vehement objection from opposition pa...
Lee likely to replace head of KFDA
President Lee Myung-bak is expected to name the next successor of the Korea Food and Drug Administration during early next year, according to multiple sources in the ruling bloc.
Kim Dae-kyung, professor of pharmac...
Handling of health and medical bills hit sang
The main opposition Democratic Party (DP) vowed Wednesday to boycott all parliamentary sessions in protest at the ruling party's unilateral passage of the disputed free trade agreement with the U.S.
The DP and othe...
Government to support drug development to counter FTA
The government plans to increase its spending on the development of new drugs, as part of follow-up measures to the free trade agreement (FTA) ratified with the United States.
To this end, three governmental agenci...
Debate on new outlets of OTC medicines
After the lawmakers of the National Assembly’s Health and Welfare Committee from the ruling and opposition camps decided not to put a bill to vote to make cold medicines and fever reducers available at supermarkets an...
Doctors prescribe 21.9 % of high-priced drugs in first half
Doctors in medical institutions prescribed 21.9 percent of expensive medicines in the first half of this year, showing a 1.3 percent decrease compared with 23.2 percent in 2010, according to the Health, Insurance Revi...
Degenerative disc disease rising
A growing number of Koreans are experiencing degenerative disc disease, a condition that can be painful and can greatly affect the quality of one's life, health officials said yesterday.
According to the National H...
OTC drug sales unlikely
The parliamentary approval of over-the-counter drug sales outside pharmacies, such as painkillers and cold drugs, is unlikely to be made available, with the ruling and opposition parties seeking to delay putting the b...
Revision of pharmaceutical affair law to be delayed
The National Assembly’s Health, Welfare and Family Affairs Committee failed to post a bill to revise the Pharmaceutical Affairs Law, designed to allow the sale of painkillers and cold medicines at convenience stores, ...
