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Government urged to overhaul drug pricing policy
The ongoing price-cut linkage system with the use of drugs should be carefully implemented in a bid to ensure better financial stability of national health insurance, according to a local professor.
In a recent for...
KFDA sets up Food and Drug Safety Assessment Agency
The Korea Food and Drug Administration said on May 1 it has launched a food and drug safety assessment agency by disbanding the National Institute of Toxicological Research.
The agency will be responsible for takin...
Government to raise SI vaccine production
Korea plans to double its stockpile of vaccines against swine influenze (SI) to treat 6.5 million people, according to the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Family Affairs.
The ministry said the additional vaccine pr...
Hospital bidding prices stir debate
Pharmaceutical firms and wholesalers have waged fiercer campaigns to raise their hospital market share with far lower bidding prices at hospitals, according to a lawmaker who cited data of the Health Insurance Review ...
5 original drug prices to fall by 20%
The prices of original medicines, such as Whanin Pharm’s Pirxane (buflomedil pyridoxal phosphate) capsules, Pfizer’s Zithromax (azithromycin) tablets, Handok Pharm’s Xatral (alfuzosin) XL tablets, Unimed’s Aialcodon t...
Medication cost refund bill approved
The National Assembly’s Health and Welfare Subcommittee on April 23 approved a bill to let the National Health Insurance Corporation claim extra medication costs which are not included in health insurance coverage des...
Measures on talc containing asbestos draw varying reactions
Experts disclosed different views with respect to their approaches to the Korea Food and Drug Administration’s recent measures to issue sales bans and recall orders on 1,122 drugs and medical goods confirmed to have u...
Government set to reorganize health ministry
Two social policymaking departments will be set up in the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Family Affairs, while integrating 8 health and medical departments, according to government officials.
The measure is respon...
KFDA warns adverse events on clevudine
The Korea Food and Drug Administration said on April 21 it issued a caution to medical doctors and pharmacists about prescribing Levovir (clevudine) for the treatment of chronic hepatitis B (HBV) infection.
The dru...
Wider welfare system planned
The government is seeking to introduce a special welfare system to assist people living at welfare facilities, according to the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Family Affairs.
Under the planned measure in June, tem...
