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Umbilical code blood controls to raise serious concerns.
Rep. Chung Hyeong-keun, the National Assembly, Health and Welfare Committee said that the umbilical code bloods reserved at 16 blood banks found 73,104 units for the donating blood and 147,563 units for the family blo...
Company withdrawal of drug registration on the rise.
As a result of implementing the graded assessment of the KGMP plants, a rapid increase of the self withdrawal of drug registration showed almost 5 times more this year than the previous year, indicating that the drug ...
3 in 10 Koreans are obese.
Rep. Lee Ki-woo of Woori Party said that 3 in 10 Koreans were overweighted according to a survey on the NHI insured population aged over 40 years or older in 2004, which was 30.7% increases over the previous year of 2...
Over 50% of Korean adults still smoke.
After the price increase of all tobaccos in Dec. last year, number of smoker populations showed ever declining trend but still kept at over 50%, a survey unveiled.
The Korean adult smokers showed 57.8% in Sept. las...
KFDA approved Yuhan's anti-peptic drug Revanex tab.
Yuhan said that as of Sept. 15 the new drug named Revanex (Revaprazan) has been completely registered to the KFDA as an anti-duodenal ulcer drug, which will be of No. 9 of Korean new drug.
Revanex has been develope...
KFDA Drug Safety Bureau to reshuffle.
The Drug Safety Bureau of KFDA has been reshuffled.
As of Sept. 15, Mr. Chang Young-wook, the 5th grade officer, finished his mission to work at the Board of Audit and Inspection of Korea and return to the Drug Saf...
5,841 prescriptions found contra indicated medications for 6 months.
It was reported that about 5,841 prescription were found as a contra indicated medication for 6 months, implying an imminent need for appropriate measures to control such critical harmful prescriptions in advance.
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Injectable drug prescriptions still at high level.
A lavish prescription of injectable drugs still prevailed in most of hospitals according to Rep. Lee Ki-woo.
Rep. Lee said quoting the HIRA's data of "the prescription frequency of injectable drugs by different cli...
Green Pharm. and other wholesalers to charge on KGSP violation.
The Kwangju KFDA inspected 12 drug wholesalers in Kwangju city area to check a compliance to the KGSP and found 3 wholesalers who violated the relevant provisions. Accordingly, the agency reported to the city for an a...
Cialis free sampling subjected to parliamentary inspection.
The issue of Cialis free sampling for pharmacists seems to be audited by the National Assembly during the government administration audit and inspection as scheduled to hold in Sept.
The KFDA said that a lawmaker o...
