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Health insurance to cover more medical fees for serious illnesses
National health insurance will cover the additional medical fees in patients who pay more than two million won for six months from three million won, due to government measures expanding national health insurance cove...
Government urged to put brake on new product licenses
Critics say the government should put a brake on drug makers' attempts to obtain a number of product licenses for their profits, as a total of 67,176 items were approved as of March 2007, according to a report rel...
Assembly to screen suspicious prescription bill next weekThe National Assembly's Heath and Welfare Committee is scheduled to examine the bill to obligate doctors or dental doctors answer any suspicious contents of a prescription raise...
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Government unveiled drug distribution improvement plan
The Ministry of Health and Social Welfare plans to scrap the contentious unified distribution system, allowing drug manufacturer's direct transactions with hospitals in 2010 as part of its effort to overhaul the curre...
MOHW to establish drug information center before year end.
The MOHW said on April 16 that the Drug Information Center should be established in the Health Insurance Review Agency (HIRA) for a drug market transparency.
For this project, the MOHW appointed LG-CNS as a respons...
Korea to support new drug R&D projects
The government will expand its financial support towards the domestic drug makers to boost their new research and development projects for new drugs.
In his response to questions by Rep. Chung Wha-won, Prime Minist...
Government announces revised medical law
Recently, the Ministry of Health and Welfare announced a new draft of the revised Medical Law that includes some doctors' demands.
In the revised bill, the government has deleted some articles that medical circle d...
Some civil servants calls for new public officials' association in KFDA
Some civil servants from the Korea Food and Drug Administration are moving to seek a formation of new public officials' association, claming that the new body will contribute to solving the conflicts between higher- a...
Pharmaceutical affairs law to be revised
The government plans to revise the pharmaceutical affairs law for the first time in 46 years to overhaul and update the overall contents reflecting more updated regulations, according to the Ministry of Health and Wel...
Political circles to check industrial damages by KORUS FTA.
The political circles have formed a special committee for a practical step to relieve any possible damages by the KORUS FTA in the vulnerable industries including pharmaceuticals.
The ruling Uri party held the 1st...
