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Combined prescription drugs required efficacy equivalent tests.
The KFDA extended the drug efficacy equivalent test requirements even to the combined prescription drugs by revising the rules of Drug Equivalent Test Administration as of Nov. 8.
The revised provision also made cl...
Cancer specialized graduate medical school in NCC.
The National Cancer Center will establish a cancer specialized graduate school inside the Center soon.
Rep. Lee Ki-woo of the National Assembly Health and Welfare Committee said "We need many integrated research s...
12% of NHI price increase proposed by medical/pharm. groups.
The medical and pharmaceutical groups proposed a maximum 12% increase of the NHI payment prices next year.
The National Health Insurance Corporation (NHIC) and 5 medical and pharmaceutical groups met together on No...
A doctor and pharmacist couple to bill 300 MW of fraud charges.
An anti-corruption agency detected a doctor husband and pharmacist wife who billed about 300 million won of fraud medical charges for the NHI reimbursement.
The Korea Independent Commission against Corruption (KIC...
Illegal egg trade and unethical business linked with childbirth.
Amid the recent reports and social controversy on illegal trade of human eggs through brokers with some hospital connections the MOHW announced that an appropriate legal control on such illegal commercial activity wit...
Drug price comparisons between Korea and 7 foreign countries.
The Heath Insurance Review Agency (HIRA) indicated in a written answer to the recent question raised by Rep. Kim Seon-mi of National Assembly that the prices of general new drugs listed in the NHI (National Health Ins...
KFDA to enforce tough penalty against drugs recalls.
The KFDA explained about the new provision that would be enforced from March next year in the meeting of "the recall for the drugs of no quality test pass" at KPMA on Nov. 2 that the company should be penalized with o...
3% of domestic Kimchi found parasite eggs.
A parasite egg was found in 16 samples of Korean Kimchi (a pickled cabbage) (3%) out of the total 502 local Kimchi products according to the KFDA test report on Nov. 3.
The KFDA tested the Kimchi samples from 502 ...
11 Koran companies capable to produce Tamiflu.
The KFDA officially announced on Nov. 3 that 11 drug companies including Hanmi, Daewoong, Chongkundang and LG Life Science could produce a bulk of Tamiflu, a drug for th bird flu infection.
In contact with the Kore...
NHI coverage to extend to medication for bird flu.
The MOHW said that the NHI coverage would be extended to the medication for the bird flu and the domestic production of Tamiflu should be positively considered in contact with Roche.
The MOHW took a meeting on Nov...
