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Health ministry seeks revision of some pharmaceutical affairs law
The Ministry of Health and Welfare said it will revise the current pharmaceutical affairs law in a bid to promote more efficient drug-related administration after consultation with related organizations until November...
Bill planned to ensure safety of patients in prescription
A group of 11 governing and opposition party lawmakers have submitted a bill to the National Assembly aimed at urging doctors to verify the contents of a prescription in question raised by a dispensing pharmacist in o...
Number of drugs per prescriptions on the rise every year.
Number of drugs per prescription showed ever rising trend since 2004, indicating that one way or others such practice should be controlled.
Rep. Yoon Ho-joong of the ruling Uri party said that the HIRA data reveal...
KFDA criticized for anti-obesity medicine license
A lawmaker took issue with the Korea Food and Drug Administration's license withdrawal of Hanmi Pharm's anti-obesity drug Slimmer in the annual parliamentary audit on October 23, criticizing the health regulator's lac...
Storage regulation of bioequivalence test data in controversy
A lawmaker recently claimed the current notice of the Korea Food and Drug Administration (KFDA) on the storage of bioequivalence test data might be a culprit associated with the generic drug's efficacy fabrication.
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Adulterated drugs to scrap starting from April next year.
The pharmaceutical affairs act will be revised for any adulterated drugs to scrap starting from April next year, and for this program the KFDA plans to develope a computer soft program of recalling and disposing the a...
Adverse reactions of herbal drugs surfaced to hot issues.
The adverse reaction problems of herbal drugs have been recently emerged as a social controversy, which therefore seems to be a hot issue in the parliamentary inspection by the Health and Welfare Committee of National...
Korea, U.S. to expedite fourth-round FTA talks
Korea and United States agreed to expedite the fourth round of the free trade agreement (FTA) talks, which be held on Jeju Island from October 23 following the two-hour video conference on October 17.
During the c...
Compulsory pediatric safety proof containers to be extended.
The safety proof containers for children should be extended for the pediatric drugs containing ingredients such as Aspirin, Ibuprofen and Acetaminophen instead of conventional blister packs, which should be designed f...
Korean's annual hospital visit days higher in OECD
Koreans were found to have higher frequency of hospital/pharmacy visits among advanced countries.
The average frequency of hospital visits among Koreans was 10.3 days, when compared to 7.3 days observed in the Orga...
