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Pharmacy to preserve prescription sheets for 3 years.
5 years or 3 years, that was a question for the pharmacist to preserve the physician's prescription sheets in the past, but now it sets forth 3 year term.
The National Assembly Legislation subcommittee raised it t...
Overall herbal drug qualities to be inspected.
A special supervisory squad planned to inspect illegal and inferior herbal drugs on the major markets from Sept. 12 to the end of the month.
The MOHW made it clear on Sept. 12 that the special squad would inspect ...
HIRA to hold symposium for evidence based medicine
The Health Insurance Review Agency (HIRA) announced an international symposium titled "the present and future of the evidence based medicine in the healthcare medical system" at Lotte hotel on Sept. 13 (Tuesday).
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Korea and Italy joint symposium on infective diseases.
The Korea Center for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC) and the National Institute of Health (NIH) planned a joint symposium with Italian embassy in Korea over "The present and future of the infective disease studi...
Massive administrative penalty against 2000 pharmacies.
More than 2,000 pharmacies have faced a massive administrative punishment on charge of dispensing PPA up to May this year since it was banned to sell any cold remedies containing PPA (phenylpropanolamine).
It wa...
Total 39 new drugs under DMF controls.
The KFDA announced to include the total 39 new ingredients including "imatinib mesylate" a drug for leukemia (Glivec) and other 4 new drugs registered in Korea since July 2002 to the drug master file (DMF) system.
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Prohibited PPA drugs still found prescribed.
More than 20,000 prescriptions containing PPA(phenylpropanolamine) for the treatment of cold and cough have been found, which was prohibited to prescribe last year on account of its risk of cerebral apoplexy.
Rep. ...
Graded assessing foreign and small/medium drug companies.
The KFDA announced the 2nd graded company assessment starting from the next week for about 106 drug manufacturers including foreign and small/medium sized pharmaceutical companies.
For this task the KFDA will alloc...
Domperidone and other 21 ingredients under DMF controls from next year.
The KFDA plans to include 21 new ingredients to the DMF controls in addition to the current 77 substances.
Especially the KFDA called for 250 active ingredients to control under the DMF programs in terms of its bio...
Post Medical Surveillance necessary to reshuffle.
In the discussion meeting for the drug safety system, its present status and future improvement jointly sponsored by Hyun Aeja Clinics and Keonyak, Mr. Kim Seong-eun of LG Life Science said that the current post marke...
