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MRI most favored as reimbursable item
In a recent parliamentary session, Rep. Ahn Myung-ok of the opposition Grand National Party said that a majority of Korean people said the high-priced MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) scanning should be switch...
Foreign doctor's licenses only valid after due national examination.
The MOHW announced on July 9 that the enforcement decree and working rules of the Medical Service Act were drafted and disclosed in public on July 10 covering a permission to exercise foreign medical, herbal and denta...
KFDA to launch e-KFDA by 2007.
In the interpellation meeting at the National Assembly on July 8 Chief commissioner Shim Chang-gu of KFDA reported that an electronic KFDA's integrated safety control system called "e-KFDA" should be built up by 2007 ...
Daewoong Pharm launches two types of functional health foods
Daewoon Pharm said recently it has first launched two naturally-occurring types of functional health food in the brandname of Say Heath Glucosamine Triple tablet and J. Formula - to distribute them to the nationwide ...
Output of Korea's top 100 finished drugs totaled 2.24 trillion won in 2003
The total production amount of Korea's top 100 finished products in 2003 stood at 2.24 trillion won, up 4.7 percent compared with 2.14 trillion won a year ago, according to data released by the Korea Pharmaceutical Ma...
Major domestic pharmaceutical firms struggling to meet this year's sales growth target
Shaking off the severe slump in the first half of this year, Korea's major pharmaceutical makers said recently they are implementing their aggressive marketing campaigns to meet their target sales growth this year in ...
Prime Minister Lee urged to scrutinize 6 year pharmacy school system.
Prime Minister Lee Hae-chan ordered the relevant offices further to scrutinize over the 6 year pharmacy school programs in connection with manpower output system in the State Affairs Coordination Meeting on July 7, sa...
6 year pharmacy program went astray in MOE.
The Ministry of Education and Human Resource (MOE) indicated their position in the report meeting for the National Assembly on July 6 on the subject of the 6 year pharmacy school system that any debate would be imposs...
Lawmaker demands wider use of children's drug-related safe containers
An opposition lawmaker called for the wider obligatory use of drug-related safe container in children, claiming the number of drug-related children accidents has been increasing steadily; 11 cases in 2001, 109 cases i...
Ildong wins latest round on ofloxacin ear drop
Ildong Pharm says that the patent dispute touched off by Daiichi Pharm of Japan fiver years ago against ofloxacin ear drop was substantially terminated by the recent ruling of the Supreme Court and that it may be able...
