News About: Goverment
No abandonment of drug price reviews in FTA negotiation.
Rep. Kim Seon-mi, a member of the National Assembly Health and Welfare Committee, raised a hard question in the parliamentary inquiry to the government administrations on April 13 especially against the descriptions ...
32 vitamin drinks to suspend production or import on benzene detection.
32 vitamin drink preparations detected with benzene seem to be suspended its production and importation.
It was found on April 13 that the Seoul regional KFDA collected twice the vitamin C beverage on the market ...
Lavish medication and unfair medical charges to be at bay.
The NHI Act seems to be amended in such a way that a lavish medication charge would be refunded and a compensation money be rewarded when false or unfair medical charges are reported.
The financial supports for the...
Substituted dispensing and generic prescription under adverse impact.
The false bio-equivalency test recently detected by the KFDA seems to give a serious adverse impact to the pharmacist group's plans for the substituted dispensing and the prescriptions in generic drug names.
The p...
BioCore and Labfrontier top in bio equivalency test performances.
By number of bio equivalency test performances in 2004, the Yakup Press survey revealed that BioCore and Lab Frontier ranked the top. The top test institutes also included Jeonnam Univ. College of Pharmacy and Kyunghe...
Institute manipulated of bio equivalency tests to treat judicially.
The credibility of the bio equivalency test has been surfaced according to the government inspection against the test institutes, some of test institutes committed a test manipulation. All product registrations approv...
242 reference drugs designated for bio-equivalency tests.
The KFDA started to review the drugs for its bio equivalency from this month, and released the total 242 reference drugs of 60 different ingredients including Zantac under "the reference drugs to prove of bio-equivale...
KFDA to ease preparation for drug registration data .
The dossiers for drug registrations will be eased in the future. The KFDA provides a cyber educational programs for the drug company who wishes to get the drug efficacy and safety review.
The KFDA will disclose suc...
Hospitalized patients to get 80% saving from meals.
Effective from June 1, this year the hospitalized patients may save their expenses for hospital meals by 80% in maximum out of the current prices.
The MOHW took the NHI Policy Review Council on April 10 and decided...
KFDA charged 73 drug companies on unlawful sales.
Gyeongin regional KFDA released an illegal drug distribution finding in the 1st quarter this year that 35 products of Hanmi and 34 products of Taejun were directly sold to hospitals as a top company in number of produ...
