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False and illegal medical bills detected.
Recently the government investigated false and illegal medical bills and found out dental clinics/hospitals and oriental medical institutes committed it the most according to "On-the-spot probe" conducted by the Healt...
Community pharmacies call for NHI programs to mend.
After the medical reform program launched, community pharmacies have turned out almost collapsed. Neighbour pharmacies therefor organized themselves under so called "Nationwide Community Pharmacy Survival Movement Ce...
Mr. Lee Kyung-ho promoted to vice minister of MOHW.
Mr. Lee Kyung-ho, the former assistant minister of the planning, management and health service office, has promoted to the new vice minister of the MOHW, nominated by President Kim Dae-jung on April 1 who also newly a...
KPMA requested that the medicine price reduction be carried out once a year
The Korean Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association (Chairman Jeung-soo Kim, President Seung-pil Yu) made a recommendation to the Government to carry out the insured medicine price reduction once a year since the con...
KPA to establish special unit for self-clean up movement.
The KPA decided to form a special organization for their own clean up works to cope with the unfair and unethical pharmacy practices recently criticized by the public and the government including the business collusio...
Emergency Measure Organization Establishment for Medical Insurance Finance insisted
The Korean Medical Association (KMA) is officially asking for launching into emergency measure organization in cooperation with Government, in relation to recent medical insurance financial bankruptcy.
KMA Chairma...
Medicines with no effect to be removed from the list of the insured medicines
Ministry of Health and Welfare (MOHW) is planning to strike medicines without any effect off the list of insured medicines through reexamination of medicines' effects and exercise strict control over payment requests ...
The National Assembly opens 220th extraordinary session … expected to deal with the pharmacist law
The National Assembly opens its 220th special session today (2nd of April) to handle pending problems including the amendment of the pharmacist law for 30 days.
In today's plenary session partly for an opening cer...
Won depreciation to raise gloomy drug markets.
Won currency has been depreciated recently up to 1,300 as per a U. S. dollar from 1,260 Won at the early of this year, giving mounting worries to the drug industry, considering that most of local drug makers largely r...
SK Chemicals M&A with Dongshin Pharma Co.
SK Chemicals purchased 21.4% equity shares of Donshin owned by investment professional organization KTB till last week, and leaped into major stakeholder, therefore, Dongshin Pharmaceutical Co. was faced with the seco...
