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Health foods as pharmaceutical products to distribute to pharmacies
Some pharmaceutical companies were disclosed having distributed health foods, which contain unfit materials for foods, to commercial pharmacies.
Illegal foodstuff Control Team of Korea Food and Drug Administration...
Technology for natural crude drug development to spur
A new horizon for the new drug development from the natural resources seems to be visualized by the Natural Product Science Research Institute newly established as a professional organization for the R&D of new drugs ...
MOHW reconsider actual purchase price reimbursement system.
Minister Kim Won-gil indicated in the Health and Welfare Committee of the National Assembly on April 19 to review the actual purchase price reimbursement system for insurance drugs that has been implemented from Nov. ...
Repayment of new medicine development subsidy, requested to be reduced
Korea Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association (KPMA) decided to request the Ministry of Health and Welfare to improve the system related to the redemption of new medicine development subsidy. It will be asking the M...
Wholesalers boycott OTC sales supplied by Zuellig.
A business controversy implicated with Zeullig, a foreign invested drug distribution company in Korea, has been resumed after a while of lull.
On April 19 so called Zuellig Wholesale Customer Associate (Head: Mr. C...
Police Agency to stop momentarily the investigation of doctors and pharmacies
Police Agency's investigation of medical circles over irrationality including license lending of doctors and pharmacists as well as rebate receiving was known to have been interrupted temporarily.
It was said that ...
Medical charge related documents to be kept for three years
The Ministry of Health and Welfare (MOHW) and Health Insurance Review Agency (HIRA) are lately intensifying examination on medical treatment facilities in connection with the aggravated condition of the health insuran...
Business collusion and illegal medical bills to uproot
The MOHW plans for all round watching and investigation against a business collusion between physicians and pharmacists to eliminate any practices that might endanger the principle of the medical reform program, and t...
Self-cleanup campaign urged by government.
The MOHW strongly asked the medical and pharmaceutical communities for their self-cleanup campaign, reminding of the recent fact that the people's overall antagonism against physicians and pharmacists in their credibi...
Pharmacists asked what to do with government's overlapped inspections.
16 district pharmaceutical associations raised questions to the head office of the KPA what to do with the government's duplicate pharmacy inspection from the MOHW and the National Police Agency.
The heads from 16 ...
