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KFDA to implement major revamp in review systems.
The KFDA announced a significant revamp plan for the drug registration system by establishing 104 civil service reform programs to satisfy the civil needs and substantially to improve the service quality including the...
Government develops hospital incentive system
The government will ask the national health insurance to pay higher doctors fees to hospitals providing high-quality medical services. In contrast, hospitals offering poor-quality medical services are expected to rece...
Yearly 160 BW of pharmaceutical business losses under FTA.
It is estimated for the local pharmaceutical industry to face about 90.4 to 168.8 billion won of annual pharmaceutical sales losses for 10 years under the KORUS FTA according to "Analysis of KORUS FTA economic effects...
Conference for Hycamptin, a new cervical cancer therapy.
GSK Korea held a lunching symposium for Hycamptin, a new cervical cancer therapy, at the conference of Korean Gynecologic Oncology Group.
The symposium took place at Grand hotel, Busan Haewoon dae on April 19, pres...
Bill for suspicious prescriptions to be passed
The National Assembly's Health and Welfare Committee passed a medical bill obligating that prescribing doctors should explain the prescriptions in question if raised by dispensing pharmacists via telephone, fax or E-m...
KFDA won legal battle on bioequivalency manipulation case.
The KFDA won the lawsuit against the case of drug manipulated bio equivalency tests earlier raised by Schnell Pharm. Korea. The Seoul Administrative court decided to reject the lawsuit raised by Schnell Korea on the s...
Exelon patch to be available in Korea
Exelon patch, the first transdermal therapy for Alzheimer's disease, will be likely approved by the Korea Food and Drug Administration, possibly within this year, based on the results of the IDEAL (Investigation of Tr...
CTD system for new drugs to be made compulsory in 2009
Drug makers will be obliged to make their application for new drugs based on the common technical document (CTD) guidelines from March 2009, according to the Korea Food and Drug Administration.
The administration a...
GLP evaluation committee to be set up
The government will shorten the period of designating new institutes for good laboratory practice (GLP) from the current three months and to two month and speed up its GLP-related handling procedures.
The Korea Foo...
Damages caused by KORUS FTA in drug industry addressed to political circles.The drug industry strongly claimed that the implementation of government's positive list system and cGMP should be postponed and the industry needed the government's tax privile...
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