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Prescription format unprepared at hospitals and clinics.
The government's medical and pharmacy reform plan was launched from Aug. 1, but most of private clinics was not ready to issue prescriptions largely excusing that prescription formats were not available.
The MOHW a...
Medical/Pharmacy Separation Cooperative Council member nominee found inappropriate.
Many Medical and Pharmacy Separation Cooperative Councils have organized with inappropriate members who were not qualified to do a professional mission, for instance, conducting very important tasks for preparation of...
Minister Cha expedite medical and pharmaceutical communities to participate in new government reform
In the press interview at the grand conference hall of the MOHW at 10 a.m. on July 31 Minister Cha strongly urged medical and pharmaceutical communities positively to participate in the government's medical and pharma...
Ranks of 20 top seller drugs on big changes last year.
According to the statistics announced by the KFDA based on the data furnished from the KPMA, the total pharmaceutical production value in 1999 showed 7,504,833 million won, about 3.9% increase over the previous year o...
Pharmaceutical affairs law in pending at National Assembly likely to pass on Aug. 31.
The MDP is going to convene an extraordinary session of the National Assembly single-handedly without regard to the opposite party's participation, and may try to pass the revised bill of the pharmaceutical affairs la...
Government medical and pharmacy reform program to launch from Aug. 1 by current law.
After the one month guidance period, the government medical and pharmacy reform plan seems to be launched from Aug. 1 pursuant to the current pharmaceutical affairs law, said Minister Cha of the MOHW.
In the press ...
KPMA urged member companies to keep smooth supply of prescription drugs.
Along with the government medical report program to launch from Aug. 1, most of medical institutes may issue a massive number of prescriptions for outpatients to be filled at pharmacies located outside the institutes....
National assembly may revise pharmaceutical affairs law in Aug.
The revised bill of pharmaceutical affairs law failed to pass through the latest plenary session of the National Assembly due to an extreme political confrontation between the ruling and the opposite party. The revise...
Prescription Drug Logistic Coordination Unit (PDLCU) to launch
The MOHW decided to establish so called "Prescription Drug Logistic Coordination Unit" on July 27 in association with the concerned organizations including KMA, KPA and KPMA for the purpose of supplying prescription d...
Cisapride to be nominated as a drug of second choice.
The KFDA decided to prohibit Cisapride to be prescribed as a drug of the first choice and seemed to take a serious consideration of its sales ban according to drug informations regarding the adverse reactions like ser...
