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Government Advances Plan to Establish Life Medical Research Institute
The government is positively considering a plan to establish a Life Medical Research Institute attached to the Health Science Technology Center within the Osong Health Medical Science Complex which was originally plan...
Frequent Sale of Insured General Medicine to Patients
It was learned that some community pharmacies are selling general medicine intended for insured use to patients without doctor's prescription.
Any pharmacy selling general medicine intended for insured use to pati...
Oriental medicine calls for separation of oriental medical and pharmacy practices.
College students of oriental pharmacy across the nation including Wonkwang, Kyungee and Woosok University declared themselves to withdraw their college enrollment and presented application for the class shutdown to th...
56% of Middle-Aged Women Recognize Climacterium Syndrome as Disease
It was verified that 1 out of 5 middle-aged women knew the reasons behind menopause.
According to the results of a survey conducted by Gallup Korea and announced by Wyeth Korea at the 'Academic Seminar Commemoratin...
Normalization of Management of Choseon Pharmaceutical Triggers Confusion
The normalization of management of the dishonored Choseon Trading Pharmaceutical is expected to be obscure for a considerable period of time because of the legal dispute concerning management right between the company...
154 Companies Found to Be Selling Supplement Foods Advertised as Treatment.
Several health supplement food companies were found using false and exaggerated advertising to make consumers believe that their manufactured products are medicine and disease treatment.
The Korea Food and Drug Adm...
Drug industry opposed to incentive program for cheaper drugs.
The KPMA made it clear on Nov. 2, that the Association definitely opposed the government's incentive program for cheaper generic drugs to be more consumed at the medical institutes and the drug price reduction plans t...
KFDA focuse on efficacy equivalent test bioengineering.
The KFDA key project next year focused on the drug efficacy equivalent tests and the development of new bio-engineering products with budget of 86,944 million won, 26.7% increase over this year.
The next year budge...
6,000 Medicine Items in Danger of Exclusion Due to Unfinished Effect Equivalence Test
Some 6,000 medicine items subjected for Effect Equivalence Test is in danger of being excluded from insurance salary because of their expected failure to obtain Effect Equivalence.
The Ministry of Health and Welfar...
Cardiovascular implication risks of Vioxx comparable to other NSAIDs.
MSD's Vioxx, a COX-2 selective inhibitor NSAID, showed a comparable risk level in the cardiovascular side effects with other placebo and 4 NSAIDs according to the latest journal report of "Circulation".
The journal...
