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32 of 117 legal communicable diseases controlled by government have no treatment
Among the total 117 legal communicable diseases which are controlled by each the Emergency Center, Communicable Control Center and Disease Prevention Center, 32 of them have no treatment.
Liberty Korea Rep. Sang-Hoon...
Rush of patients to hospitals in capital area only for ‘minor illness’
With a widened gap of medical services among regions, a rush of patients to the capital area is reportedly increase every year.
According to data Justice Party Rep. So-Ha Yoon received from the National Health Insura...
3 of 10 Seoul taxi drivers have diabetes or expected to have diabetes
3 of 10 taxi drivers in the Seoul area reportedly have diabetes or are expected to have diabetes.
The Diabetic Association of Korea conducted a project to measure blood sugar on Seoul taxi drivers for 2 times between...
Hospitals and clinics purchasing medicines less than KRW 30 billion exempted to obligated payment
Organizations purchasing medicines worth of less than KRW 3 billion a year, like hospitals and pharmacies, will have an exception to the payment obligation.
The Ministry of Health and Welfare(Minister Neung-Hoo Park,...
“Obesity is ‘disease.’ Just change of lifestyle won’t work to cure”
‘Obesity’ is a condition of having excessive body fat. Due to change of dietary life and lifestyle after 1980, the world’s obesity rate was increased more than double; there are reportedly about 600 million people wit...
Reevaluation period for advanced medical devices changes from 4 to 5 years
The government will relax regulations about medical devices, such as shortening the current reevaluation period for advanced medical devices from 4 years to 5 years.
The Ministry of Food and Drug Safety gave an admin...
‘Prevision Medicine Project Group’ to provide medical services personalized for insurable cancer patients
The ‘Precision Medicine Project Group’ will be established to adopt a personalized treatment system for incurable cancer patients.
In order to implement the personalized medical services and have a new future growth ...
MOHW fires a flare to localize Korean medical devices in China
The Ministry of Health and Welfare(Minister Neung-Hoo Park, MOHW) has started to bear fruit in the ongoing business of expanding and localizing medical devices in China.
The MOHW and the Korea Medical Devices Industr...
‘Zero case of serious adverse drug reaction’ unlike concerns about HPV vaccine
73.5% of the reasons why parents decided not to follow the Human papillomavirus(HPV) vaccination program for 12-year-old children was their concern of side effect, but it was reported there actually was no case of ser...
‘Tenofovir’ to prevent hepatitis B infection from mother to newborn baby
‘Tenofovir’ was recently known to have efficacy on vertical transmission of chronic hepatitis B-infected mother’s antigen to newborn babies.
Chronic hepatitis B, a main cause of cirrhosis of the liver and liver cance...
Which are outstanding tetravalent vaccines even for the young?
Disease treated the most with clinical trial drugs is respiratory disorder like lung cancer
Who will be the next Pharmaceutical Safety Bureau Director?
Celltrion completes clinical trials for Remsima SC for European approval
Sales listed pharmas made in the first half of the year
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