News About: Goverment
Prescription in generic drug names unlikely to happen soon.
Minister Ryu Shi-min made it clear that the prescription in generic drug names would not be implemented soon in spite of its pledge committed during the presidential election.
Minister Ryu said in the replying to R...
Korea, U.S. ended two-day talks on new drug pricing policy
The Ministry of Health and Welfare released its statement on August 22, saying that Korea and United States had a productive meeting on pharmaceuticals and medical devices in Singapore from August 21-22, with both sid...
KFDA shut-down issue discussed at a policy conference.In an excuse of the food safety reinforcement the government attempted to separate the food administration works from the current KFDA at an independent food administration agen...
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Korea prepares for BIO KOREA 2006
Korea is putting final touches on preparing for the hosting of BIO KOREA 2006, an international exhibition scheduled for September 6-8 at the Seoul COEX Convention Center.
The Korea Health Industry Development Inst...
District court: simple standardized herbal stuffs are not a drug.
So far a standardized herbal stuff has been regarded as a drug in the pharmacy circles, but a district court recently decided it not a drug, giving a lot of aftermath to the pharmacy communities where selling the herb...
Korea, US begin two-day dialogue over pharmaceutical pricing
Korea and the United States started two-day talks in Singapore on August 21, focusing mainly on procedural matters regarding Korea's new drug pricing policy.
The second round of the formal FTA talks that took place...
Multinational clinical studies may not require bridge tests.
The bridge test could be exempted when the local drug company conducted a multinational clinical studies at the time of new drug development, and it is possible for any new drugs developed in the overseas to conduct m...
CTD guidelines for new drug registration to be adopted soon.
The new common technical document (CTD) guidelines for the drug registration documentation will be adopted pretty soon in Korea.
The KFDA announced on Aug.. 17 that the introduction of the CTD guidelines should not...
Sky-rocketed drug prices
If Korea accepts the request of United States to extend a three-year increase of drug patents in Korea, which means U.S. drug companies would have more time to monopolize the domestic drug market with their new medici...
US patent strategy will jeopadize domestic pharmaceutical industry
"Strengthening patents of original drugs, which has been sought by the United States in the free trade agreement talks, will deal a serious blow to the local pharmaceutical industry as the newly developed medicines wi...
