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KFDA willing to lure multinational joint clinical trials
The Korea Food and Drug Administration (KFDA) unveiled its plan to actively attract the multinational joint clinical trials to Korea in a bid to improve the level of domestic clinical trials and acquire the foreign R&...
Domestic drug wholesaling sales dwindled sharply
Pharmaceutical business sources say that the overall sales of domestic drug wholesalers during this February have been rapidly falling before and after the lunar calendar day, although their sales in the previous mont...
Dextromethorphan and others to put under narcotic controls.
The KFDA intends to designate Dextromethorphan hydrobromide (Romilar) and Carisoprodol (Analexin tab.), which are prevalent as a narcotic substituted drug in the market, under the narcotic (psychotropic drugs) drug co...
Pfizer Korea having a cautious attitude on Norvasc supply to S wholesaler
In the drug biddings of five patriots and veterans hospitals nationwide, Norvasc bidding was awarded to S wholesaler who snatched it instead of prior order.
Pfizer Korea expressed its awkward position on February 1...
President of KPA to be elected by mail vote.
After a long debate in the directorate meeting on Feb. 10 over how to elect the president of the Korea Pharmaceutical Association (KPA), it was finally decided to vote by mail.
In the 4 hour ongoing meeting they de...
National health insurance allowances in 2002 totaled 19.606 trillion won
The Health Insurance Review Agency said that the national health insurance payment last year amounted to 19.606 trillion won, up 7.0 percent a year earlier (17.819 trillion won):
- The medical outlays at pharmacies...
Health ministry to open its screening procedure for reimbursement of insurance drugs
The Ministry of Health and Welfare (MOHW) announced that the existing screening procedure for reimbursement of insurance drugs will be drastically ameliorated via disclosure in a bid to ensure transparency in screenin...
MOHW mulls upper limits of patient's own payment.
In line with the NHI financial integration projects to launch from coming July this year, the MOHW is seriously studying an adoption of the patient's own payment at a certain level of upper limits for all service char...
2,803 drugs exclusively registered in NHI drug list.
The KFDA reported in the consolidated explanatory meeting on the subject of the bio-equivalency on Feb. 11 that the total 2,803 drugs have been registered exclusively in the NHI drug list, and urged other local drug c...
GNP to submit a bill in favor of separating the finance of national health insurance
21 lawmakers of Grand National Party including Rep. Lee Won-hyung submitted to the National Assembly their revised draft on the National Health Insurance Law on February 11, opposing the financial integration of both ...
