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Public health centers involved in the prescription of high-priced drugs
The MOHW announced it discovered some health centers that have been engaged in the practices of prescribing high-priced drugs for outpatients as a result of its inspection on 23 public centers from April 17 through Ap...
Special Committee for Pharmaceutical Affairs System unveils 31 drug related subjects
In its first meeting, the Special Committee for Pharmaceutical Affairs System Improvement, a presidential consultative body, has recently announced that 31 subjects including eradication of illegal prescription dealin...
New product licenses total 19
The Korea Food and Drug Administration announced that licenses for new products totaled 19 as of the end of last April. Details:
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Offensive marketing strategies for switched non-prescription drugs eyed
Pharmaceutical industry sources say that the domestic drugs makers of digestives and antacids are intensifying their countermeasure strategies in marketing to minimize the impacts associated with the government's poli...
Interim injunction against bottom level of NHI drug pricing policy.
The KPMA (Chairman: Kim Jung-soo) stood a harsh stance against the MOHW's NHI drug pricing policy and decided to take a legal action.
The MOHW earlier announced in May 3 the drug price slashing measures including t...
Pharmacy located in higher floors on the rise.
It has been understood since long time that the retail pharmacy used to locate at the ground floor, but this is now changing in which quite a number of new pharmacies are operating at higher floors of the business pre...
Drug-related distribution reforms being drifted
The government's ambitious policies relating to drug distribution reforms have been off the track. Hitherto, the Ministry of Health and Welfare (MOIHW) has endeavored to promote the drug related distribution reforms v...
Prescriptions of unconditional "No substitution" to check.
The medical institutions where such prescriptions are issued as indicating "No substitution" without any relevant clinical comments may get disadvantages in the future.
The Health Insurance Review Agency (HIRA) cal...
NHI drugs without bill records to be deleted.
As previously reported the MOHW removed 5,293 drugs from the NHI reimbursement plan effective from May 1 according to the revised provision titled "The upper limited price lists of NHI/Non-NHI reimbursement product li...
Foreign governments to attract the promising Korean biovernture firms
Daeduk Valley Bioventure Center says some foreign countries, including U.S., U.K. and China, have recently shown their keen interest in inviting the domestic bioventure firms through a series of brief sessions.
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