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686 hospitals and pharmacies on irregular drug deals.
After the implementation of the actual transaction drug pricing system, about 686 of medical institutions and pharmacies were detected irregular practices in drug distributions, and Shinpoong was found the most irregu...
MOHW organizations to restructure for more efficient performances.
The MOHW decided wholly to restructure the organization as of Oct. 10 for more customer oriented and individual official's performance efficiencies by introducing a team system.
Now, the MOHW has changed the organi...
Seoul Asan hospital: a top prescriber for outpatients.
Seoul Asan Hospital found the top prescriber for outpatients in number of day out of the total 42 general hospitals in Korea.
The HIRA reported in the government inspection and audit meeting of National Assembly th...
Safety controls on drugs to be reinforced.
The MOHW promulgated the revised working rules of the Pharmaceutical Affairs Act as of Oct. 27, reflecting more reinforcement of the registration standards for biological drugs, expansion of the test items for the bio...
A massive counterfeited impotence drugs uncovered.
The Kwangju regional KFDA announced that 88 suppliers including Color Home-shopping were prosecuted to the policy stations in the region as a result of checking the public advertising descriptions for drugs including ...
1,090 drug adverse reactions to be reported in 1/2 of 2005.
The KFDA announced that during the first half of this year the total 1,090 adverse reactions were reported, which was about a double time higher than the same period last year of 907, showing an increasing trend from ...
KFDA to approve DMF certification for 66 bulk drugs.
Ensuing the DMF approval for 384 bulk drugs last month, the KFDA announced that additional 66 bulk drugs including Hanmi's paclitaxel were approved in Sept., the total 450 bulk drugs to be DMF certified.
The total ...
A third party drug quality examination granted.
A drug quality test can be assigned to any third party private laboratories for the drug quality test if the lab. is qualified by the KFDA.
So far only pharmaceutical manufacturers should test the product quality o...
KFDA budget in 2006 at 148,600 MW.
The 2006 budget for the KFDA rose 23.8% from this year at 148,600 million won which was 28,600 MW more than 2005 of 120 BW, covering the projects of R&D of the food and drug scientific safety controls and of the techn...
Emergent drugs to be directly supplied by makers to hospitals.
An emergent or special drug having a short half life, say, 48 hours or so forth, could not be supplied through the wholesalers from its makers pursuant the current unified distribution provisions in view of its short ...
