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Transparency required in legislation process of Basic Law for Life Ethic.
A part of civil and social groups showed adverse reactions to the government's legislation of "the basic law for life ethic" covering a provisional ban on human cloning because of unclear rationale for its legislation...
KMA to discuss possibility of reserving the submission of list of prescription medicines.
The Korea Medical Association (KMA) will hold a board of medical affairs directors' meeting today (30th) to discuss the selection for the prescription medicine list and the Enforcement Ordinance & regulations of the P...
Bio-equivalency test finally set for 405 products of 24 ingredients.
The Bio-equivalent Test Subcommittee of the Central Pharmaceutical Review Council, in the meeting on August 24, finally decided for 405 products of 24 ingredients to perform the test, and also determined the reference...
Inadequate financial plan resulted in loss of 214.4 billion won
It has been pointed out that since the Health Insurance Finance Stabilization plan driven by the Ministry of Health and Welfare did not work as intended, it will result in at least 214.4 billion won in reduced income ...
Two companies in court receivership on the verge of M&A
Shin Dong Bang Medix and Sanga Pharmaceutical Company, which are under court receivership, will be able to normalize their operations when they are taken over by third parties in September and the end of this year, re...
Guideline for pharmacist advice on drug administration on urgent need.
Article 2 (definition) of the revised pharmaceutical affairs act gives obligation for pharmacists to provide an advice on the drug administration for patients, but it seems to be ineffective in the field at all becaus...
Specific Pharmaceutical Companies not to be excluded in the selection of prescription medicines
Given the last-ditch situation of the prescription medicine selection procedure, it is predicted that most medicines from the specific pharmaceutical companies that were known to be disadvantageous to doctors, would b...
Increase Budget to More Than 20 billion won for New Drug Development
Following its demand for the maintenance of an actual transaction redemption system, the Korea Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association (KPMA) has asked the Government to increase its budget for the development of new...
Biomedicine Dept. to Be Established in KFDA
It has been confirmed that a Biomedicine Security Department will be created within the Korea Food & Drug Administration (KFDA) this year. This move is expected to contribute to fostering the growth of the biomedicine...
Call for Plan to Correct Unfair Transactions of Zuellig
Sixteen chairmen of provincial pharmaceutical associations adopted a statement demanding a concrete action plan to correct the unfair transactions of Zuellig and the pharmaceutical companies cooperating with it.
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