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KFDA to focus on advanced drug logistics system
The Korea Food and Drug Administration said recently it would actively promote more sound distribution order through advanced drug logistics system.
In a recently held brief session with the representatives from ph...
KFDA to announce drug safety control policy.
The KFDA is going to have an explanatory meeting at the conference hall of the KPMA at 3 p.m on June 10 for the practical working level staffs of relevant pharmaceutical companies, suggesting the policy therefore for ...
KFDA to overhaul overall registration processes
The KFDA plans to overhaul the current drug registration process in a bid to foster the domestic drug industry, realizing many problems as resulted from ever increasing social needs for higher quality of drugs since t...
KFDA to withhold Iressa registration.
The KFDA withheld the health registration of Iressa, an anti-cancer drug for a non-small cell lung cancer, filed by AstraZeneca Korea, claiming that the required dissolution test data and its related results were not ...
HRT more benefits than risks
The Korea Society of Menopause (KSOM) announced that the hormone replacement therapy (HRT) for the treatment and prevention of menopause syndrome and osteoporosis exhibited far more benefits than risks.
The KSOM ...
Pharmacists urged to display drugs separately from items other than drugs
Pharmacy sources say that although the Pharmaceutical Affairs Law does not permit any display of drugs with quasi-drugs or foods under more stringent administrative dispositions, the mixed display is still rampant und...
Establishment and registration of pharmacy with non-pharmacist is not permitted
In response to the recent civil query that a pharmacist can establish a pharmacy with a non-pharmacist in partnership, the Ministry of Health and Welfare clarified that such business is deemed illegal, citing the prov...
MSD to launch anti-fungal drug, Cancidas in June.MSD Korea will launch Cancidas 70mg and 50mg strength (IV injection) for the treatment of fungal infections probably during June.
Mode of Cancidas (caspofungin acetate) actio...
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Unsealed oriental OTCs can be sold without prescription
A person may be engaged in selling unsealed oriental OTCs without doctor's prescription, according to the Health Ministry's recent response to a query raised by a civilian.
The ministry further noted that under the...
Patients with mild disease will face higher individual burden from this SeptemberThe Ministry of Health and Welfare said on May 30 that it will impose heavier insurance burden to patients with mild disease (e.g., common cold, etc.) from this September at the...
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