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Government to get tough on drug prescription
The government will strengthen its ex-post facto monitoring scheme over drug prescription to be issued by medical institutions from May.
It is strongly recommended that hospitals and pharmacies carefully check thei...
40% lack drug decomposition enzyme
Four in 10 Koreans have a generic predisposition that is poor in decomposing specific drugs, such as antiulerants, antifungal and antiplatelet agents, according to the Korea Food and Drug Administration.
People who...
Makers of sibutramine hesitating to change insert paper
28 producers of sibutramine here are likely to revise the insert paper at the end of this month, during which a possible association between sibutramine (Meridia, Abbott) and an elevated number of cardiac events such ...
Kang named HIRAS president
Kang Yoon-ku, a dean of Soonchunhyang medical college, has been named the new Health Insurance Review Assessment and Service (HIRA) president, replacing Song Jae-sung, Cheong Wa Dae said recently.
Born in South Cho...
Hospitals to receive 709 billion at 10 percent lower drug prices
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.
In 2008, the system paid 10.3 trillion ...
KFDA to support for development of natural products
It is time for natural products to make a fresh start internationally and the Korea Food and Drug Administration will do its best to support the leap forward, said a KFDA official.
Now that Korea has taken a step c...
Health insurance fund posts 82 billion won in surplus in February
The National Health Insurance Corporation said on March 15 that the health insurance fund turned into a blank ink of 81.9 billion won from minus 144.9 billion in January.
The surplus was attributed to insurance pre...
KFDA to set up new team for drug safety
The Korea Food and Drug Administration says it has decided to launch a new team to deal with adverse drug reactions within its food and drug safety assessment bureau.
The measure is in response to calls to create a...
Obese people cannot use sibutramine for over 1 year, KFDA says
The Korea Food and Drug Administration issued warnings on March 15 that the use of sibutramine, marketed as the weight loss medication, cannot exceed one year and the drug cannot be use in elderly people aged over 65 ...
Reward scheme for doctors and pharmacists likely to be delayed
The proposed scheme to make dealings between drug makers and doctors more transparent is likely to go into effect in 2011 due to a variety of procedures in the Health Insurance Review Assessment and Service (HIRA).
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