News About: Goverment
Healthcare providers seek to overhaul medical insurance fee system
The nation’s five healthcare organizations are proposing to establish a special committee to overall the current medical and pharmaceutical dispensing fee system.
These organizations consist of the Korean Pharmaceu...
Indiscriminate use of antiviral medications yielding drug-resistant strains of H1N1 virus
Indiscriminate use of antiviral medications to prevent and treat influenza could ease the way for drug-resistant strains of the H1N1 virus, or swine flu, to emerge, a lawmaker warns – making the fight against a pandem...
Revalidation may perform voluntarily
A drug maker will be allowed to conduct revalidation voluntarily over sterile or non-sterile medicinal products, once the overall manufacturing method or facility/equipment was already validated, according to the Kore...
Second test-run DUR program hits obstacle
The ongoing Drug Utilization Review (DUR) program in Cheju has hit a snag as doctors have not joined it due to poor computerized system, pharmaceutical business sources said recently.
According to the sources, phar...
Government to re-hold public hearing on November 24
The government plans to re-hold a public hearing for discussing practical solutions for improving local service industry on November 24, according to the Ministry of Strategy and Finance.
The plan calls for overhau...
Health minister Jeon opposes operation of unlicensed pharmacist
Health and Welfare Minister Jeon Jae-hee said on November 15 expressed her negative response to the government’s plan to allow unlicensed people to open specialized businesses as long as they hire a person with the ap...
Safety-proven OTCs should be marketed at supermarkets
The government will have to work out measures to promote customer-oriented drug policies for public health, a civic group said on November 12.
The Citizens’ Coalition for Economic Justice said in a statement that t...
Controversy brewing over local service progress plan
A controversy surrounding over a set of the government’s measures to improve the corporate environment and develop the services industry is growing as pharmacists expressed skepticism about the government's plans for ...
Refund system to be applicable to two orphan drugs
Sam-Oh Pharm will be obliged to refund the price difference of two orphan drugs, Naglazyme (galsulfase) and Myozyme (alglucosidase alfa), by next March, marking the first case in the country’s drug refund system, acc...
Government to hold public hearing over services industry promotion plan
The Ministry of Strategy and Finance and the Korea Development Institute will set up public hearing on November 12 over the deregulation plan to improve the corporate environment and develop the local services industr...
