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[News Comment] New KMA Executives Expected to Fight With Determination
During the direct election conducted for the first time in the history of KMA, Shin Sang-Jin was elected chairman with an overwhelming support of 75%.
It is no exaggeration to say that Shin's election implies the ...
MOHW Considers Allowing Corporate Pharmacies
The Ministry of Health and Welfare decided on a policy to systematically consider the possibility of allowing the establishment of corporate pharmacies to cope with the changes in the market following the implementati...
Price Competition Between Wholesale & Pharmaceutical Companies Reaches Dangerous Level
The fight for survival in the pharmaceutical industry is getting more intense after some wholesale companies initiated a self-destructive kind of competition by sending out 'dumping sale lists', and both pharmaceutica...
Cost Efficiency of Increased Radio Advertising
As the country's pharmaceutical industry expands public advertising to promote their products after the implementation of the separation system between clinics and pharmacies, preference for radio advertising is growi...
No supply problems of Influenza vaccines
Almost every year the supply of influenza virus vaccine had problems but it may not repeat this year by additional supply of 1.5 million doses to the previous year volume.
The vaccine production company already sec...
To Suppress Increasing Insurance Pay Through Field Inspection
The Health Insurance Review Agency (HIRA) has introduced a policy to suppress the rapidly increasing Insurance Salary Expenses by launching field inspections targeting medical institutes.
HIRA began to set up count...
Pressure to prepare countermeasures to minimize public inconvenience.
During the interpellation session of the Ministry of Society and Culture at the National Assembly, the ruling and opposition parties urged for the adoption of countermeasures to minimize the inconvenience to the publi...
Drug administration fees likely to apply diminishing rates.
The KPhA made it clear that the diminishing rate system applying to drug administration charge count would not be acceptable, which was earlier raised by the government as one of the NHI financial stabilization measu...
Issue on Emergency Contraceptive Pill to Be Decided on November 12
A decision on whether to allow the sale of Emergency Contraceptive Pill (NorLevo) is expected to be finally made on November 12, or 25 days after the public hearing.
The Korea Institute for Health and Social Affai...
Cooperation Requested for Abrogated Restriction of Long-Term Prescription
Even though regulations that restrict long-term prescription were abrogated it was learned that patients' complaints still exist because some medical institutes apply the old rules due to lack of information.
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