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KMA on non-observance to present common prescription drug lists.
The KMA failed to keep deadline (Sept. 13) for the common prescription drug list to present to the pharmacist associations, showing that the provisionally required list presentation was not observed at most of regions...
Combination of Shop-in-Shop Business Employing Nutritionists
The shop-in-shop format in the pharmaceutical industry is expected to establish combination through joint cooperation among companies which should result in additional huge sales for pharmacies by installing vitamin a...
Non-cooperation From KMA Delaying Prescription Medicine List
The government is helpless against the intentional delay of submission of the prescription medicine list by the Korea Medical Association (KMA). While the legal deadline for the submission of the list ended on Septemb...
OTC cold remedy market on high fever.
After the medical reform program the sales of non-prescription common cold remedies showed a sharp upturning trend in the market, which is even more accelerated now entering this fall season.
Once this market shrun...
Health Food Sale Misleading as Medical Supplies Offered on Home Shopping Channel Rapidly Increase
Companies that make profits by confusing and misleading customers by advertising diet food and other products as medicine or effective for curing diseases have been exposed.
A central mobile surveillance team fr...
Three Candidates Including Shin Sang-Jin Vie for Chairman of KMA in Direct Election
The direct election for chairman of the Korea Medical Association (KMA), which will be held for the first time in the group's history, has narrowed down to a three-cornered fight.
The KMA closed the registration ...
Former Ministers of Health and Welfare Summoned as Witnesses
The former Ministers of Health and Welfare were called as witnesses by the Health and Welfare Committee of the National Assembly in relation to the bankruptcy of insurance finance for the separation system between cli...
Reference price system initially applying to 4,557 drugs.
In the policy debate over the Reference Price System on Sept. 19 Mr. Han Oh-suk, the chief officer of the Survey and Research Institute of the Health Insurance Review Agency (HIRA) indicated under his presentation tit...
Prescription Medicine List Includes 468 Items From 106 Companies
An analysis of the prescription medicine list for Sancheong-kun, Kyongnam province which was announced on September 13 revealed that Daewoong Pharmaceutical leads all companies with 28 items out of the total of 468 pr...
MOHW mulls punishment when no issuing prescription sheets in duplicate.
The MOHW indicated in the commodity price related ministerial meeting on Sept. 14 that a certain penal provision should be enacted against physicians when their prescriptions are not issued in duplicate as prescribed ...
