News About: Goverment
FTC carries out change of braille indication from discretion to obligation
Braille transcription, which was regulated as a discretion, will be obligated.
The Fair Trade Commission(FTC) recently announced to prepared the ‘Recommendation for Improvement of Drug Indication’ with the Ministry o...
“Drugs with partially matched therapeutic category should not mention it”
The Ministry of Food and Drug Safety(MFDS) requested pharmaceutical companies not to mention efficacy on containers and packages if it does not match with the therapeutic category.
The MFDS(Minister Young-Jin Ryu) se...
Flexible management of pharmaceutical product reassessment under adoption of the Pharmaceutical Product Renewal System
Under adoption of the Pharmaceutical Product Renewal System, regulations related to this have been revised so that these products can be reassessed only when it is necessary, instead of regularly.
The Ministry of Foo...
“Gleevec generics have no bioequivalent problem, and prescribing is a matter of the medical field”
The Ministry of Food and Drug Safety(MFDS) made straight that there was no problem for the Gleevec generics’ bioequivalence test in safety and efficacy, but prescribing generics over Gleevec is not a matter of issue t...
Improvements on ‘Korean Health Care R&D Assessment & Management System’
In order to encourage researches and developments in the Korean health care industry, the Ministry of Health and Welfare(MOHW) will improve the &RD assessment & management system and publish academic journals to share...
“Increase of fine might be effective, but need to be careful”
An expert member recognized that the revision for enlarging a fine on drug manufacturers, importers and sellers was valid, but also made a comment it was necessary to thoroughly consider its control over companies wit...
Minister Neung-Hoo Park visits distribution field, “I’ll find solutions for the serial number”
In order to understand practical difficulties and problems from enforcement of the serial number system in the distribution field, Minister Neung-Hoo Park of Health and Welfare visited distribution companies and looke...
“Aggressive R&D investments will create global novel drugs with government’s support”
The Korean pharmaceutical industry has promised to make continuous efforts to make Korea a pharmaceutical power with the government’s support in aspects such as development of global novel drugs, having bold researche...
National Assembly scheduled to table 8 agendas related to Pharmaceutical Affairs Law
The National Assembly Health and Welfare Committee will discuss about various agendas related to the Pharmaceutical Affairs Law, such as public & mid-night pharmacy, upper-limit charges for pharmacy business suspensio...
“Government must let the medical field know of ways to guarantee profits from the coverage extension plan”
“The government has no choice but to give a higher price than product cost for the medical industry in the process of making a drug insured. People need to know of this.”
Yong-Ik Kim, a former The Minjoo Party repres...
