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KHA calls for 30 days reimbursement review period.
The Korea Hospital Association (KHA) requested to the HIRA for the improvement of the NHI reimbursement review period in order to efficiently forecast a cash flow by estimating more accurate timing for the NHI reimbur...
66 new drugs registered by 28 companies in 2001.
Number of new drugs registered in 2001 was 66 items by 28 companies. The KFDA data covering the new drug registration in 2000 to 2001 showed 75 and 66 items respectively, the total 141 products.
In fact when exclu...
Major Korean companies concentrating on 'aggressive marketing '
To safeguard better position in the local pharmaceutical market influenced by the first round of SDP (separation of dispensing from medical practice) function, the leading Korean drug makers are focusing their 2002 bu...
Abbott's Uprima to classify as abusive prone drugs.
The KFDA additionally put the apomorphine preparation (Abbott's Uprima sublingual tablet), an impotence drug, into the abusive prone drug class. The abusive prone drug include 8 products such as dextromethorphane Hbr,...
WHO approves KFDA's ex post factor management for vaccine
Korea Food and Drug Administration (KFDA) has announced it obtained an accreditation from World Health Organization (WHO) for license procedures and its ex post facto management involving vaccine preparations. This ac...
Prof. Shin Young-soo appointed as a director of HIEAB.
Ministry of Health and Welfare has recently elected Prof. Shin Young-soo of Seoul National Medical College as a new director of Health Insurance Examination and Appraisal Board.
Director Shin (59 years) is a former...
KPTA in agreement with China for promoting pharmaceuticals trade
Pan-Asia collaboration network for the exportation of local pharmaceuticals will be further promoted.
The Korea Pharmaceutical Traders Association (KPTA) has announced it signed an agreement with The Association of...
Medical institutions responsible for illicit connection in specific drugs
The illicit connection activities intended to exclusively dispense specific drugs at some pharmacies have been gone too far based on the doctors' prescription of such drugs which cannot be easily purchased from pharma...
Average 1.5 pharmacists woking at one pharmacy
Average 1.5 pharmacists woking at one pharmacy
The Health Insurance Examination and Appraisal Board (HIEAB) has recently announced that Korea has 18,019 pharmacies with 25,927 pharmacists at the end of Januar...
Medical World Rushed into Movement of Ten Million Signatures for Separation Abolition
KMA (Korea Medical Association) rushed into a concrete detail activity for separation abolition, which increases tension.
Including that it already rushed into a 'movement of ten million signatures for the abolitio...
