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KFDA to designate clinical centers for medical device
The Korea Food and Drug Administration said on June 12 that it will formulate a rule to designate clinical centers for medical device
The designation will not only improve the infrastructure of clinical trials for ...
Profitable business to permit for honest hospitals.
A profitable business seems to be allowed for the honest hospital having a transparent accounting practice by an outside accounting and auditing company. The M&A process in the hospital areas will be also simplified.
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Health ministry plans to reduce incidence of cerebrovascular diseases by 2010
The ministry will reduce the number of deaths resulting from heart and cerebral disease from the current 77.2 to 60 per 100,000 deaths by 2010 under the comprehensive support plan,'' the Ministry of Health and Welfare...
KFDA/KPTA to support drug exports
The KFDA will actively support the drug exports in association with local pharmaceutical industries.
Director Moon Byeong-woo of KFDA Drug Administration Division took a meeting with the top executives of the Kor...
Self-discipline key to better health care
Self-disciplinary measures are crucial to enhancing better health service in the local health and medical service sector, a local professor representing the local five medical groups said on June 8.
"The medical pr...
Hanmi plans to make public anti-obesity drug
Hanmi Pharm said recently that it plans to release a new drug to treat obesity in the latter half of this year.
However, the exact launching date for the anti-obesity Slimmer (sibutramine mesylate) has yet to be se...
Korean drug pricing policy lacking efficiency and accessibility.
An opinion has been suggested that the drug pricing policy in Korea had kept relatively underestimating its economic efficiency and accessability compared to other advanced countries. Accordingly, the positive list sy...
Bill for penal power granting to medical and pharmaceutical groups.
The pharmaceutical supervision and its control power currently converged in the government seems to be empowered to the Ethic Commission of the Korea Pharmaceutical Association.
Recently Rep. Moon Hee and Ahn Myeon...
Health functional food makers to be given more leeway in toll manufacturing
Local health functional food firms will be able to enjoy the toll manufacturing as the government plan to ease regulations, the Ministry of Health and Welfare said on June 8.
Functional foods can be defined as food...
Viagra and other impotence drugs to carry vision loss warning
Viagra, the impotence drug produced by Pfizer, will now carry a warning about the risk of possible blindness, after the Korea Food and Drug Administration (KFDA) has approved new labelling, to warn men about possible ...
