News About: Goverment
Group top executives to negotiate NHI prices.
The NHI price negotiation for the next year began from today (Nov. 3) until Nov. 15.
5 groups heads of the medical and pharmaceutical associations will meet at Palace hotel at 6:30 p.m. on Nov. 3 to discuss the NH...
Fake of Xenical and Sporanox openly available in pharmacies.
Many counterfeited drugs such as Xenical, Sporanox and Viagra and illegally imported functional health supplement products like Lezitin are openly sold in the retail pharmacy markets and the medical institutions.
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KFDA to exempt safety test of generic drugs.
The KFDA disclosed the draft of partial revised test standards of drug safety on Oct. 27, which harmonized with, an international ICH guideline and newly established exempted cases of the test and the evaluation there...
3000 substitutive drugs to dispense under incentive plan.
There are nearly 3,000 or more of drugs to be substituted for the brand drugs in the pharmacy under the government's incentive plan to encourage dispense cheaper generic drugs.
The plan provides about 30% incentive...
KFDA to clear registration requirements for new and generic drugs.
The KFDA has overhauled the review regulations of the standards and test Methods applicable to the new or generic drug registration in which the scope of required or exempted documentations had been clarified, the dru...
Any generic drug production may be granted when necessary.
The government may consider to enforce an exceptional legal practice to Tamiflu, an anti-bird flu drug, in which any generic drugs be produced against the patent protection of its branded drug if deemed it necessary i...
SNU hospital to play a world stem cell hub.
SNU hospital announced to establish "World Stem Cell Hub" (WSCH) on Oct. 19, playing a role as a world stem cell hub in the research and education of the human stem cell studies.
Thank to the successful research ou...
First multinational clinical test for medical device allowed.
The KFDA announced on Oct. 18 that a multinational clinical study project on medical device had been first approved in Korea. The test is to treat a blocked coronary artery by a medical stent coated with a drug, whic...
21 companies including Korea United to penalize.
A massive administrative measure was imposed to 21 drug companies on charge of breaching the relevant provisions including no quality controls and no compliance to the quality control standards.
Daejon regional KFD...
FTC mulls a corporate pharmacy run by non-pharmacists.
The Fair Trade Commission (FTC) recommended for the MOHW to improve the drug sales ban at other stores than pharmacies.
The FTC's latest report titled "The status of the deregulation promotion for the fair trade pr...
