News About: Goverment
MOHW, “It is impossible to exclude gene and cell therapies from economic evaluation”
The Ministry of Health and Welfare(MOHW) clearly expressed its stance that gene and cell therapies cannot be an exception on economic evaluation when getting evaluated for the health insurance benefits.
Senior Manage...
‘Entire Substance Indication for Medicines’ enforced on 3 December 2017
The ‘Entire Substance Indication for Medicines(indication of all the substance names, active ingredients, and volumes for all the preservatives written in product license and registration on containers and packaging o...
MFDS starts to enforce Pharmaceutical Product Renewal System from July
The ‘Pharmaceutical Product Renewal System’ will be enforced from July to reorganize products causing problems in regards to safety and efficacy.
In order to tighten safety control, which is directly connected to the...
MOHW having deep concerns about emergency household medicines
The Ministry of Health and Welfare(MOHW) has deep concerns about conducting the final deliberative committee for adjustment of emergency household medicines.
According to the MOHW on the 30th, the ministry has a hard...
Jae-In Moon, “Biopharmaceutical industry will go with publicity and profitability”
President Jae-In Moon said the government will carry out active investments and rational regulations in both aspects, publicness and profitability, to nurture the Korean biopharmaceutical industry.
On the 28th, Presi...
Obligation to inform MOHW if electronic medical records are hacked
A bill was tabled to obligate to make a report to the Ministry of Health and Welfare(MOHW) if electronic medical records are hacked.
The Minjoo Party Rep. Sang-Hee Kim representatively tabled the ‘Partial Revision Bi...
Blue House nominates candidate for Justice Minister, not Minister of Health and Welfare again
The Blue House nominated a candidate for Minister of Justice, but did not appointed minister candidates for Minister of Health and Welfare(MOHW) and Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy(MOTIE).
The Blue House nomin...
Grace period for Serial Number Reporting System extended from 6 months to 1.5 years
Ahead of the Serial Number Reporting Obligation, a grace period for administrative punishment will be extended to safely settle the system.
While the system will still be implemented on July 1 as scheduled, the grace...
MFDS internationally recognized in approval and assessment fields of biosimilar
The Ministry of Food and Drug Safety(MFDS) announced on the 26th that Korea has been reappointed as a IPRF Biosimilar Working Group member country at the ‘International Pharmaceutical Regulators Forum and Internationa...
Continuous efforts to legislate regulations to prevent use of pharmaceutical name on foods
Legislative efforts to legally prevent products that are medication from impersonating pharmaceutical products.
Recently, the ‘Partial Revision Bill to the Food Sanitation Law’ representatively tabled by The Minjoo P...
