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Administrative Measures On Pharmacies Neglecting Medication Guidance
In an effort to strengthen the current pharmacy practice level in providing medication guidance, the Ministry of Health and Welfare (MOHW) said it will impose administrative measures on those pharmacies neglecting the...
KFDA To Launch On-line Education Program Supporting Drug Approval Requests
In an effort to fight against a number of administrative dilemmas surrounding the drug approval processes, the Korea Food and Drug Administration (KFDA) announced on December 8th that it has developed an on-line educa...
KFDA to Revise Regulations on Biological Drugs
In an effort to bring the level of current regulations surrounding review and approval for use of current and future biological drugs to advanced international standards, the Korea Food and Drug Administration (KFDA) ...
Antispasmodic Drugs Under Restrictive Watch by KFDA
The Korea Food and Drug Administration (KFDA) announced that it would restrict approval, production and sale of seven drugs containing noraminopyrine methane sulfonate calcium (NMSC), which has an antispasmodic effect...
COX-2 Inhibitor Found To Help Prevent Gastric Cancer
The Korea Food and Drug Administration (KFDA) announced December 3rd on its discovery of additional efficacy of COX-2 (cyclooxygenase-2) inhibitor, which is a type of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) for...
Mandatory Use of Correct Measurement Devices for Children Medicine Now Effective
The Korea Food and Drug Administration (KFDA) said its revised Regulations on Drug Safety Device and Packaging, which was announced on December 1, would make a mandatory use of correct measurement devices for children...
KFDA Submits Draft Regulations on Establishment of Human Tissue Bank
The Korea Food and Drug Administration (KFDA) announced that it would make a regulatory draft submission covering details for permission of human tissue bank, in an effort to provide an increased momentum supporting t...
Unlimited Use of Infant Dyspnea Medications
The Ministry of Health and Welfare (MOHW) announced it would allow for an unlimited use of infant dyspnea (respiratory distress syndrome) medications, given the medical judgment by healthcare professionals.
The ...
Drug Validation Guidelines Set by KFDA
In an effort to promote production and manufacture of high-quality drugs by the pharmaceutical companies, the Korea Food and Drug Administration (KFDA) announced that it has established the Guideline for Drug Analytic...
Propacetamol Showed Therapeutic Equivalence for Sulpyrine
Following the KFDA’s ban on the production and sales of drugs containing terfenadine and sulpyrine due to possible harmful side effects, a recent report from the overseas clinical studies is drawing attention on the t...
