News About: Goverment
170 million won of incentive plan for the third birth of baby.
A private company announced to provide 170 million won of incentive plans for the promotion of 3rd baby delivery payable until the graduation of college, implying a national critical issue on the low birth rate.
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New bio-equivalency standard guideline for 160 active drug ingredients.
The KFDA said on Feb. 22 that the Standard Guideline for Bioequivalency was established for 21 active drug ingredients including aceclofenac and ramipril and others such as clarythromycin, the total 160 ingredients.
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KIFHAD: breaking ground to construct international support center.
The Korea International Foundation for health and development (KIFHAD) took a ground breaking ceremony on Feb. 20 for the construction of a supporting center of medical equipments (hereinafter called Center) in presen...
KFDA/KHIDI jointly operating a Korea-America FTA team.
The KFDA and the Korea Health Industry Development Institute (KHIDI) have agreed to operate a full responsible team for the future Korea and American FTA project to prepare an appropriate measure against diverse issue...
211 clinical test centers were registered in Korea.
The KFDA reported the total 211 as of today, including Seoul National University hospital and 21 centers newly registered last year.
The report revealed 29 centers for the phase I clinical study, 79 centers for the...
NHI reimbursement for Lyrica and 254 new drugs approved.
The NHI reimbursement prices for the total 254 drugs including Pfizer's Lyrica have been newly approved.
The MOHW announced the official notification for the revised NHI price list covering the total 2,475 drug pri...
KFDA seeking civil services without paper works from Oct.
The KFDA civil administration including the drug health registration will be proceeded via internet, cellular phones or PDAs for any application, review and review report, and therefore the drug health registration d...
MOHW to slash average 10.8% NHI price for 1,477 drugs
The NHI (National Health Insurance) drug prices of the total 1,477 products have been slashed by 10.8% on average to save at 59.1 billion won of the medical expenditures for the NHI finance and the patients.
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22% increase of NHI payment for cancer patients in 2004.
The total NHI (national health insurance) payment in 2004 for the cancer patients showed about 22% increases over the previous year at 991,500 million won according to the NHIC report on Feb. 16
The same NHI paymen...
KERI to advocate prescription written in generic names.
The Korea Economic Research Institute (KERI) reported in a study paper titled "A study on the regulation reforms to strengthen the competitiveness of medical service supply system" authored by Prof. Kwon Soon-man that...
