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Internal medicine practitioners denounced pharmacies over illegal dispensing.
The Internal Medicine Practitioners Association denounced a pharmacy located at Eunpyeong Ku, Seoul to the public prosecutor on Jan. 3 on charge of dispensing drugs without prescriptions and occurrence of its adverse ...
Domestic Pharmaceutical industry should gear up export drive in 2004
Strong voices have emerged over pharmaceutical firms' advancement into overseas markets as domestic consumption is unlikely to see an early pick-up and slow corporate investment the rush by companies to relocate their...
Hanil Pharm, CJ to exchange MOU for possible merger
Hanil Pharm said that its company union, the largest shareholder of the insolvent firm, signed a memorandum of understanding with CJ on January 2 for the latter's possible acquisition.
The union designated CJ as th...
SARS checks begin for Chinese travelers
Following the discovery of a severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) case in the Southern Chinese province of Guangdong on January 5, the government has begun to inspect people coming in from the affected country to ...
KFDA Safety Evaluation Office to approve drug registration.
The review works on the drug safety and efficacy and the registration approval will be transferred to the KFDA Safety Evaluation Office.
The State Council passed the bill of reorganizing 6 government offices incl...
MOHW's budget in 2004 at 9,606,300 million won.
The total MOHW's budget in 2004 amounted to 9,606,300 million won passed through the National Assembly on Dec. 30, 2003, showing about 120 billion won (1.3%) less than the government proposed bill (9,732,726 million w...
Pocket payment of chronic patients to be lightened.
The government revised the NHI related provisions including the enforcement decree of the National Health Insurance Reimbursement Act effective from Jan. 1, 2004, applying a broader scope of its reimbursement and redu...
Management of KGMP-accredited firms to be strengthened
The Korea Food and Drug Administration said through its pharmaceutical affairs inspection plan in 2004 that it would introduce a differential management system for KGMP-accredited manufacturing facilities to strengthe...
KFDA greets New Year with reforms
The Korea Food and Drug Administration rang in the new year by preferring smaller packages of drug to larger ones.
The KFDA unveiled its drug-related administration policies in 2004, saying that it is contemplatin...
Government urged to promote commercialization of R&D outcomes in BT sector
The government needs to encourage Korea's biotechnology industry by giving priority to more balanced corporate investment in a bid to promote commercialization of R&D outcomes in BT sector, said a local report recentl...
