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Pharmaceutical Affairs Law revised since suggesting Measures for Finance Stabilization
It seems that Pharmaceutical Affairs Law amendment pending in National Assembly will be proceeded to the extraordinary session of the National Assembly in June, which act as stumbling block to settle medicare system. ...
Direct Payment for Medicine Fee reviewed
Lawmakers urged that direct payment system is taken a stand against rule of free market competition squarely and it should be wholly reviewed.
Rep. Son Hui-jeong insisted that Government intervention, which Insura...
Reexamination Medicine 535 items including New Medicine
Reexamination Medicine get to 535 items and 6 ingredients and 18 items will be carried out reexamination this year. It is said that reexamination medicine including new medicine reach to total 535 items.
According...
Civic groups about to put pan-national NHI reform drive.
A pan-national drive for the NHI reform seems to be visualized by 20 different civic groups including the Solidarity for People's Health as Right, the Citizen's Coalition for Economic Justice and the Civil Coalition f...
Social welfare corporations bring about illegal medical treatment acts
Social welfare corporations are deranging medical order by not receiving patients' share in the payments to attract patients, which requires a urgent countermeasure.
Yi, Won-hyeong, the Grand National Party Assembl...
Hanmi Pharm signed a contract for the sole selling of antibiotics with Sankyo, Japan
Hanmi Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. (Chairman: Lim, Sung Ki) announced that it signed a contract for the sole selling of antibiotics, Carbenin, in Korea with Sankyo Co., Ltd in Japan on April 16th.
Since it becomes the ...
New anti-cancer drug developed by Il Yang.
Il Yang announced on April 16 that "beta-immunan", an orally administered immunity anti-cancer drug, had been successfully developed from Ganoderma lucidum (a mushroom) extract, and its therapeutic efficacy was proved...
Unfair business links and illegal medical bills to investigate.
The MOHW instructed all local governments to establish so called "Special Supervisory Unit for Medical Reform Program" taking responsibilities for inspecting unfair business collusive links between physicians and phar...
Pharmacies and patients in trouble with physician's lavish prescriptions.
Physician's prescriptions described with lavish medications that partly caused the NHI financial crisis have not been corrected. According to pharmacy practitioners it was found that some prescriptions issued at the ...
Forgery and alteration of medical supplies to be strictly controlled
Korea Food and Drug Administration (KFDA) is planning to conduct a special examination on wholesalers who forge and alter the available period of the medical supplies to settle the separation of clinic and pharmacy sy...
