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Lawmakers to seek amendment of quarantine law
Rep. Kim Hong-shin, a legislator of the opposition Grand National Party, presented on April 26 to the National Assembly a proposal strengthening legal grounds for new and re-emerging communicable diseases such as SARS...
Bacilli dysentery spreads to local regions
Although fears grew Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) is spreading across Korea, health authorities are also on high alert due to the recent outbreak of bacilli dysentery.
The National Institute of Health s...
53,930 MW investment support for bio-engineering this year.
The total 53,930 million won of budget this year seems to be allocated for an investment subsidy in the area of the bio-engineering.
The government announced the above project after fixing "2003 Bio Engineering Fos...
KMA drastically to reinforce medical reform supervision activities
To check the pharmacist's illegal dispensing practices without physician's prescription or substituted dispensing behaviors, the Korea Medical Association is going to intensify their supervision activities.
The KMA...
Government urged to promote R&D new drug projects
Current estimates put the average research and development cost in Korea of a wholly new drug in the range of 10.6 billion won with the relevant period of 8.9 years, according to the list revealed by the Korea...
Local drug makers brace for severe damage
Korea's drug makers are bracing for a prolonged downdraft in the domestic pharmaceutical market following the government's ex post facto drug pricing inspection on 4,300 items from 190 medical institutions, which have...
General hospitals should be allowed to make direct transaction with drug makers, KHA says
The government should allow the direct drug transaction between general hospitals and pharmaceutical makers in a bid to lessen the prevailing wholesaler margin of five percent, said in a statement of the Korea Hospita...
M&A resurfaced as hot topic in wholesale communities.
The topic over the wholesaler's M&A has been emerged again in the drug wholesale communities amid crying "We all get collapsed" caused by the recent frozen economy in the markets. However, the community has voiced con...
KPA to oppose foreigner-only pharmacy in international free trade areas.
The KPA officially opposed to the establishment of a foreigner-only pharmacy in the international free trade city in Jejudo during the workshop for the Legislation of Special Provision for Jeju International Free Trad...
Definition of osteoporosis being disputed in medical circle
The definition of osteoporosis should be newly re-established from bone mineral density (BMD) to bone strength, according to recent training lecture on "A novel paradigm in the treatment of osteoporosis" sponsored by ...
