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Patient own payment for pharmacy services at 500 won.
Taking effect of the newly revised working rules of the NHI Reimbursement Act from coming July 1, the patients who receive a pharmacy service should pay their own pocket money at 500 won.
The government's cabinet m...
Prescription by generic name under fire
The 'Participatory Government' cannot avoid severe criticism on its performance on the prescription by generic name, as the government yet failed to resolve the controversial issue, according to theCitizens' Coalition...
KFDA approves 4 orphan drugs
Recently, the Korea Food and Administration has newly designated four orphan drugs sildenafil citrate, nilotinib, galsulfase and irusulfase, in addition to the currently approved 113 orphan drugs.
- Sildenafil cit...
Antibiotics and injectable drug prescriptions turned down.
Number of antibiotic and injectable drug prescriptions turned down and saved about 12.4 billion won of the NHI fund.
The Health Insurance Review Agency (HIRA) reported that the prescribing rates of antibiotics decl...
Introduction of GMP certification system planned over medical devices
The Korea Food and Drug Administration (KFDA) said it will introduce a new GMP (good manufacturing practice) mark system for medical devices from June 1, following a proposed implementation of GMP standards on May 31....
KFDA approved over 700 clinical studies.
Number of local clinical studies the KFDA has approved this year, already surpassed to 700 cases, shedding a light on the establishment of clinical study infrastructures at the level of advanced countries.
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Lawmakers to protect economically active credit defaulters
A bill to allow credit defaulters, including pharmacists, to make their work was proposed by a lawmaker, as the government is attempting to cover up the severity of the issue.
Rep. Hyun Ai-ja of the Democratic Labo...
FTC to revamp drug industrial rebate practices.
The Fair Trade Commission is going to watch out strictly the collusion of public tenders after revamping the drug distribution patterns including the prevailed rebate practices in the pharmaceutical industry.
The F...
Government urged to withdraw FTA trade-off deal
In its official statement on February 12, the Health Right Network, a civic group for the people's health, called on the Korean government to withdraw from the free-trade agreement (FTA) trade-off deal, to this effect...
GMP rating to be disclosed this week.
During this week the GMP rating on pharmaceutical manufacturers will be disclosed.
The KFDA collected the results of all drug manufacturer's GMP levels rated last year and will announce it during this week at the ...
