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Kang Yoon-kyu appointed new vice minister of Health ministry
President Roh Moo-hyun released a list of 34 new vice ministers of government agencies on March 3, including Kang Yoon-kyu, chief of social welfare policy as a new vice minister of Health and Welfare and professor Shi...
New Minister Kim mulls president's pledges to implement.
Minister Kim Wha-joong, the first new minister of MOHW in the Participatory Government has now home tasks how to implement the pledges President Roh promised during his election campaign in the health and welfare area...
Expanded scope of designation for quasi-drugs eyed
The Korea Food and Drug Administration announced that some health-related items (e.g., smoking-cessation products, wood-derived extract sheet, etc.) would be designated as quasi-drugs for better management of people's...
European Commission clears Pfizer acquisition of Pharmacia with proviso
The Financial Times of the U.K. reported that Pfizer Inc's acquisition of Pharmacia Corp. for $54 billion in stock was approved by the European Commission on February 27 under the conditions that some launched items a...
KPA to submit a list of illegal pharmacies operated by medical institutions
The Korea Pharmaceutical Association (KPA) recently disclosed it is presumed that 60 pharmacies in eight regions throughout the country (including 20 pharmacies in Seoul) have been directly operated by hospitals and w...
New health minister stressed welfare policies aimed at beneficiaries.
New minister Kim Wha-joong stressed to say in her inaugural address that she would keep a continuous dialogue with people with a sense of mission, self-belief and principle in implementing the reformed subjects of the...
Domestic drug wholesaling market in 2002 analyzed
The average annual growth rate of domestic wholesaling industry in 2002 stood at minus 0.2 percent, a leading business survey indicated recently.
According to the MSK's Korea's pharmaceutical market report, w...
Pharmacists want scrapping of ex post facto reporting after substitute drug dispensing
The current regulation requiring a pharmacy to make ex post facto reporting after substitute drug dispensing should be waivered for more expanded function of pharmacists and stable dispensing right, according to propo...
Toxicological informations of foods and drugs to put in database.
The toxicological informations of foods and drugs to put in the data base under the government initiatives.
The National Institute of Toxicology (NIT) opened its KNTP (National Toxicology Program in Korea) home pa...
Dong-A turns its eyes to Chinese market
Dong-A says it newly established Wuhan Donghe Pharma, a joint venture firm, with Donghe Corporation under the same 50:50 equity ratio of investment amounting to a total $250,000 in an effort to market Dong-A's own dru...
