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Drug advertising on Internet PC communication permitted.
Taking effect from coming March the drug advertising on the internet PC communication channel will be permitted, which may hit a new move in the drug advertising market.
The drug will be prohibited to manufacture if...
Fees for prescription and dispensing to increase from July.
The MOHW announced on Feb. 29 that the prescription and dispensing fees would be readjusted to increase in June to take effect from July 1 in order to compensate for the business loss that the medical institutes might...
Strike plan of medical community to postpone 3 weeks.
The hospital shut-down strike plan of medical community, mainly private clinics, has been postponed to 3 weeks. In the meeting of presidents of the city and provincial KMA and the members of the Central Struggle Commi...
Realistic dispensing fees supportive to improve pharmacy management.
The MOHW plans to establish a new payment system for insurance medication expenses directly reimbursable to the drug supplier from the insurance agency without getting through the medical institutes where medication w...
Bulk Good Manufacturing Practice system to launch next year.
The MOHW drafted the revised working rules of the pharmaceutical affairs law to launch it from March 2, in which drugs would not be granted to manufacture if infringed other patent rights and the good manufacturing pr...
Compounded or injectable drugs permitted for substituted dispensing
Under the medical and pharmacy separation system pharmacists may substitute drugs in their dispensing on physician's prescriptions for other equivalent drugs, especially for the simple preparations in tablet, capsule ...
Functional cosmetics allowed to label its efficacy and indications.
To prepare the implementation of the cosmetic law taking effect from the upcoming July 1, the MOHW drafted the working rules and enforcement decree of the cosmetic law, allowing active ingredients, efficacies, indicat...
KPMA called for general hospitals to shorten credit terms.
The KPMA asked the general hospitals who delayed their payment to shorten the credit terms through the medical organizations such as the KMA and KHA.
After the implementation of the government new insurance drug pr...
Judicial punishment unavoidable against recent group strike of medical community.
The government is going to take an appropriate judicial measure against the recent group rally of medical communities on Feb. 17 at Yoido plaza, which brought all shutdown of medical institutes. Applying the relevant...
Sales forecast of 30 leading drug companies set 17% increases on average.
The drug industry set forth an ambitious sales forecast this year with growth in double digits, the achievement of which, however, seems to be largely subjected to the upcoming medical and pharmacy separation system a...
