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Doctors prescribe unacceptable concomitant drugs
Doctors have still prescribed ketorolac tromethamine that should not be mixed with diclofenac, or has safety problems and age limitations, although their prescription frequency of such drugs is in downward trend, acco...
Health ministry change name to Ministry of Health and Welfare Affairs
The Cabinet meeting has recently decided to change the name of health ministry to Ministry of Health and Welfare Affairs from Ministry of Health, Welfare and Family Affairs.
Instead, the Ministry of Gender Equality...
Acetaminophen-containing OTCs to be hit by government plan
With the health ministry’s plans to screen the economic effectiveness of 1,880 OTC products, pharmaceutical firms having renowned drugs containing acetaminophen, such a Tylenol ER, will see their sales decline in the ...
Pharmacists calls for probe of antibiotic syrups
The Korean Pharmaceutical Association said on January 12 that it has asked the Korea Food and Drug Administration to re-investigate the stability profiles of 32 antibiotic syrups for children.
The associations said...
Health insurance to cover cost-effective OTCs
The government plans to ask the national health insurance to cover only cost-effective over-the-counter (OTC) drugs to reduce medication costs.
The Ministry of Health, Welfare and Family Affairs has recently unveil...
KFDA to boost scientific modernization of oriental medicines
The Korea Food and Drug Administration is stepping up efforts for better way of ensuring the safety of oriental medicines by utilizing new scientific techniques.
Aiming at enhancing the nation’s standard of health ...
KFDA warns alcohol and drug interactions
Alcohol is a drug and like any drug, it can interact with a wide variety of other compounds. But alcohol isn’t like most medicine, because it’s so much a part of many people’s lives. Who stops to think that the beer t...
Korea’s drug watchdog OKs flu vaccine
Korea’s drug safety watchdog said on January 5 that it has given Green Cross Corp. the green light to market Greenflu-S, a vaccine with adjuvant.
The final decision came after consultation with the Central Pharmace...
Medium-sized companies struggling to secure QA personnel
Small- and medium-sized pharmaceutical firms are on the alert to recruit eligible persons who are well versed in quality assurance (QA) sector, as the Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) system for raw materials has bee...
Bioequivalence testing to be made compulsory for new combination drugs
Pharmaceutical firms will be obliged to conduct bioequivalence testing for new combination medicines from July this year, according to the Korea Food and Drug Administration.
Under the newly revised regulation, a t...
