News About: Goverment
Warning, Caution and other descriptions must show on outer packages.
A new standard regulating the outer drug package descriptions seems to be prepared before the end of this year. which should show a bigger letter sized description on the outer packages and, "caustion" or "warning" on...
Regional NHI premium for farmers and fishermen cut by 50%.
The MOHW announced that the regional NHI premiums for farmers and fishermen should cut down by at least 50% considering that they have faced recently with many difficulties on account of the market opening of the agri...
2,177 drugs to review in 2008.
The drug review plans in 2008 selected the total 2,177 drugs in 29 different therapeutic groups including 1,884 herbal preparations and disclosed in far advance so that the relevant drug companies should prepare requi...
Human placenta drugs to require health registration.
A human placenta drug has been produced by a product report system but will be controlled under the health registration requirements like other new drugs, drugs subjected to assess its efficacy and safety and bio drug...
788 drugs of 5 therapeutic groups to review
The KFDA announced on Jan. 11 that 788 drugs of 5 therapeutic groups supplied by 161 companies including anthelmintics, hemostatics and biological preparations were finally designated to review its efficacy and safety...
Financial supports to medical institutions to be transparent.
The MOHW plans to reshuffle the health and medical service system in which any reasonable financial supports to the medical institutions provided by the pharmaceutical industries in the name of the R&D should be trans...
Prices for drug ingredients code of 111 to 219 to review.
The MOHW is going to review the drug prices for the drug ingredients with code 111 to 219 for 3 years by an equal number of drugs every year.
The MOHW said that the price review would be applicable to the ingredien...
MOHW 2006 total budget at 10,414,400 million won.
According to "the outline of 2006 budget" of the MOHW announced on Jan. 11 by the MOHW, the total MOHW budget in 2006 increased 10% from the previous year at 10,414,400 million won including 9,706,300 million won of g...
KHMPA to support disclosure of lavish antibiotic prescriptions.
The Korea Han Medical Practitioners Association(KHMPA) strongly claimed that the list of the medical institutions lavishly prescribing antibiotics should be disclosed in public in view of the people's rights-to-know a...
Administrative measures against 689 drugs of 35 companies to be exempted.
The KFDA announced on Jan. 10 that they inspected and found illegal (direct sales of drugs to hospitals without getting through wholesalers) distribution of about 1,642 drugs supplied by 88 companies, 40% (689 drugs b...
