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Civic group opposes DTC advertising of prescription drugs
The Korean Federation of Medical Groups for Health Righst (KFHR) is opposing the proposed direct-to-consumer (DTC) advertising of prescription drugs by the Korea Communications Commission (KCC), calling on the KCC to ...
KFDA picks 40 active ingredients to prevent concomitant administration
The Korea Food and Drug Administration said Friday it has additionally selected 40 medical ingredients which should not be mixed with others, or has safety problems and age limitations.
If doctors still want to pre...
Reform required to ensure financial stability
The National Health Insurance Corp. (NHIC)’s health-related committee claimed that a cigarette price hike would be the most effective policy tool to deter smoking and raise additional funds for its health insurance bu...
Items for comparative clinical trial to be waived from re-assessment of bioequivalence testing
Medicines which are designed to conduct a comparative clinical study with an original brand product will be exempted from the re-evaluation plan of bioequivalence testing, according to the Korea Food and Drug Administ...
Civic group calls for loose rules on drug sales
For the sake of public health at night, the government will have to push for a regulation change to allow over-the-counter drugs to be sold at supermarkets and other non-pharmaceutical stores, the Citizens’ Coalition ...
2011 heal ministry budget tops 33.5 trillion won
The National Assembly passed next year’s budget of 309.1 trillion won ($270.2 billion), up 5.5 percent from 2010 on December 8, amid strong protests from opposition lawmakers.
Of the 2011 budget, the health minist...
Korean visit hospitals 18 times a year
Koreans visited hospitals 16 days on average per year in 2000, more than 1.3 times from 2002, according to the Ministry of Health and Welfare.
According to a new publication on health insurance statistics, an aver...
Korea to revise Pharmaceutical Affairs Law on rebate ban
Starting on December 13, the newly revised Pharmaceutical Affairs Law will stipulate that doctors will be subject to imprisonment for up to two years or face fines of up to 30 million won if found to have taken benefi...
Chronic diseases take toll on government funds
The number of patients with chronic illnesses associated with old age and western-style diet life has gradually increased over the past five years.
In particular, the number of people suffering from thyroid disord...
Government seeking expansion of OTCs
The government plans to expand the scope of over-the-counter (OTC) drugs based on a wider application of the standard manufacturing criteria, along with the plan of simplifying the clinical trial system to step up eff...
