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Government to scrap preferential treatment fee system at night-time
Doctors working at night will not benefit from preferential treatment fees.
The government plans to lift the current differential doctor fee in a bid to ensure the financial stability of the national health insuran...
Government’s support needed to ensure financial stability of health insurance
Healthcare spending is expected to surge in the near future since the country's elderly population will rise significantly, but the authorities have yet to hammer out any reform package to cope with this, according to...
Bill to promote pharmaceutical industry eyed
The National Assembly is seeking to legislate a bill designed to make local pharmaceutical firms more globally competitive as part of efforts to foster the industry as one of the nation's new growth engines.
On Apr...
KFDA to upgrade drug patent web site
The Korea Food and Drug Administration plans to upgrade the patent information of frequently prescribed 170 substances contained in its drug patent website “Informatics”, while offering more detailed patent informatio...
HIRAS selects 10 BPH based subjects
The Health Insurance Review Assessment and Service said on April 15 that it will evaluate the following ten healthcare subjects, such as therapeutic interventions, diagnostic test and medicinal products, based on the ...
Bioequivalence testing to be made compulsory for capecitabine generics
Local drug manufacturers who intend to obtain the product license for a generic version of capecitabine will be required to conduct bioequivalence testing instead of comparative dissolution test, according to the Kore...
KFDA to evaluate risk of cardiovascular events with sibutramine
The Korea Food and Drug Administration says it is reviewing final data from a recent study (SCOUT) suggesting that patients using sibutramine have a higher number of cardiovascular events than patients receiving place...
KFDA advocates vaccine authority
When the influenza A (H1N1) fear swept the world last year, Koreans were relieved over the domestic availability of vaccines. Green Cross Corporation produced the vaccine "Green Flu S" in December.
The Korea Food ...
Government seeking to stabilize national health insurance finance
The government has been seeking to reduce overall drug prices by 20 percent to help the national health insurance system and its subscribers cut down their financial burdens.
Last year, the system paid 11.7 trilli...
Government to run 24-hour emergency care system
Aimed at reducing the nation`s death rate of emergency patients suffering from cardiac arrest, cerebrovascular disease and burn from the current 33 percent to 25 percent by 2012, the government has recently announced ...
