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KPCC to push up with 6-year pharmacy college education systemKorea Pharmacy College Council (KPCC) said that it would further promote the 6-year pharmacy college education system, while coping with the new establishment of pharmaceutical ...
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Listing of new drug to insurance price to be expedited
The Korea Food and Drug Administration (KFDA) said it agreed to share with the Health Insurance Review Agency (HIRA) a computerized system for the license of new drugs on November 28th and this may expedite the listin...
Bukwang Pharm to commercialize hepatitis B drug clevudine in 2004
Bukwang Pharm said it would commercialize an innovative hepatitis B drug, clevudine (L-Fmau-102), nucleoside analogue, in 2004, as the phase IIb clinical trials in eight university hospital in Korea, demonstrated its ...
Non-prescription drugs to be excluded from NHI reimbursement schedule.
It is widely opined that the non-prescription drugs should be excluded from the NHI reimbursement schedule in view of saving the NHI finance.
In fact many drugs classified since long time as a general drug category...
OTC drugs to describe instructions in common languages.
After the implementation of the medical and pharmacy role separation program and the enforcement of the product liability (PL) Act, the KFDA is going to set up a guideline for consumer drugs to be instructed in a comm...
Countermeasures on domestic market opening to foreign competition eyed
In the midst of the impending domestic market opening to foreign competition, much interest has been focused on the measures to alleviate non-tariff barriers and tariff cutting related to the WTO's DDA (Doha Developme...
Pharmacists loudly voicing over too frequent inspections.
The retail pharmacy community claimed many difficulties in their pharmacy management because of too frequent inspections over pharmacy practices by the MOHW, the public health centers, the civic groups, the public pro...
Counterfeit Viagra is still rampant
Some counterfeit drugs on renowned brand items, such as Viagra and Xenical, are still rampant in the domestic market.
Market sources say that some harmful impurities may be contained in these drugs due to little in...
Domestic pharmaceutical industry have been in critical phase for survival
Pharmaceutical business sources say that a series of the government drug-related policies designed to unilaterally reduce the reimbursement prices, such as drug price re-evaluation system and ex post facto drug manage...
KFDA to promote earlier commercialization of biodrugs
The Korea Food and Drug Administration (KFDA) unveiled a plan to undertaken some research projects covering the license of biodrugs, safety of cell- and tissue-engineered drugs, and safety assessment of gene-related d...
