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KFDA to conduct a sanitary campaign
With the 2002 World Cup Soccer Final near at hand, the Korean Food and Drug Adminstration is going to conduct a campaign against insanity of restaurants. This campaign will be held from April 17 to 19 in Pusan, Inchon...
Special Commission for Pharmaceutical System Development on quick action.
The Special Commission for the Pharmaceutical System Development and the Health Industry Development (Chief Commissioner: Prof. Kim Chang-jong of Central University College of Pharmacy) was organized at the early of t...
Actual transaction price system on name only.
The government's NHI drug pricing system called "Actual Transaction Price System" enforced from Nov. 1999 has been no longer seen in the market, but given it up to the former "Report Price System" in place by which th...
Drugs to undergo their efficacy equivalence test will benefit from the insurance coverage
The MOHW has announced that of the items whose application for the drug efficacy equivalence tests was already submitted to the Korea Food and Drug Administration (KFDA), any items will be excluded the current list of...
Market price of Glivec disputed
The Joint Countermeasure Committee for making Glivec available to Korean patients with chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) has recently urged that the government should forcibly enforce the public price of Glivec at the pr...
Number of HIV infected people up
The National Institute of Health (NIH) said on April 16 that a total of 75 Koreans were additionally infected with the virus that causes AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome) in the first three months of this year...
Countermeasures for drug liability system to be contemplated
Kyungin office, a regional agency of Korea Food and Drug Administration, will hold a workshop on April 25 with a main theme "product liability", which is scheduled to be fully implemented from July 1 this year.
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Local Wholesalers Anxious about Zuelling
The domestic pharmaceutical circle seems to lose its control over the Zuelling issue. The issue was likely to subside when the official statement by the pharmacist association of Pusan/Kyung-nam district opposing to t...
Full assistance for small- and mid-sized firms eyed
The Korean Drug Association (KDA) says it will make this year for concentrating efforts to actually support the small-and mid-sized firms through offerings of a low-interest fund and discounting of a bill, in a move t...
KPA in brief response to medical strike
The Korean Pharmaceutical Association has announced April 15th that pharmacies would work overtime by 10 p.m. in order to minimize the upcoming inconvenience of people due to the strike by the medical circles starting...
