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Health ministry to push for six-year pharmacy college education system
Minister of Health and Welfare Kim Hwa-joong testified before a meeting of the recent parliamentary inspection team that the envisaged six-year pharmacy college education system needs to be implemented as a global sta...
M&As active in drug distributors
Pharmaceutical business sources say that a major change in Korea's drug distribution sector is in the making during the latter half of this year, as a large drug wholesaler will be merged into a pharmacy chain firm an...
Government urged to activate substitute drug dispensing through scrapping of post-dispensing notice
Rep. Kim Sung-soon, a member of the National Assembly's Health and Welfare Committee insisted during a parliamentary inspection session to the Korea Food and Drug Administration that the government should scrap the cu...
32% of prescriptions against provisional standards of drug uses.
32% of the prescriptions have been found unsatisfied to its standard of drug uses, causing possible drug malpractices according to the report of Rep. Kim Myeong-sup, the Health and Welfare committee of the National As...
NHI reimbursement for pharmacies 6.4 times surged up.
After the implementation of the medical and pharmacy role separation system (medical reform program) the total NHI payment for pharmacies went up by almost 6.4 times higher than before according to the data presented ...
348 pharmacies found business collusion practices.
348 pharmacies and 525 medical institutions across the nation have been found over 70% of prescription convergence according to Rep. Nam Kyeong-pil, the commissioner of the National Assembly Health and Welfare Committ...
SDP function is malfunctioned: survey reports
The recent survey of 1,028 adults (aged 20 or more) across the region conducted by ACE Research, a market survey agency, on September 15 and 16 this year disclosed that 88 percent of the respondents said the new syste...
Output of antibiotics and outpatient prescription rate are still surging
The Korea's production of antibiotics in 2002 accounted for 1.625 trillion won from 1,390 items, up 17.2 percent compared with 909.3 billion in 2002 (1,161 items) and the outpatients' antibiotic prescriptions of commu...
KGC Sang-A to introduce influenza vaccine FluMist
Korea Green Cross Sang-A Pharm said it would distribute in Korea FluMist (influenza virus vaccine from next year, internasal), which was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration as the first influenza vaccine...
Prescription for 1,410 general drugs no longer reimbursable.
The MOHW announced on Sept. 22 that 1,410 general drugs cut off from the NHI reimbursement scheme, which may save about 166 billion won of the NHI fund. The MOHW had earlier undertook such an NHI reimbursement policy ...
