News About: Goverment
KFDA budget at less than 0.1% out of all government.
The KFDA's next year budget has been fixed at less than 0.1% out of the total government plan, giving serious concerns about which the food and drug safety control works would be apparently getting harder and of heavy...
Government will allow Korean Nationals to use foreign hospitals in FEZ
The government decided to allow local residents to receive medical services at foreign-invested hospitals in the free economic zones to be set up in Inchon, Pusan and Kwangju during a Cabinet meeting on November 16.
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KFDA to review possible approval of new chemical drugs with novel salts
The Korea Food and Drug Administration said recently it is now considering allowing the approval of new chemical drugs with novel salts in re-examination period after consultation with legal advisors, saying that newl...
Negotiation on next year NHI reimbursement prices failed.
The NHI reimbursement price negotiation between the medical/pharmacy communities and the NHIC was failed due to too distant views and interests.
The NHIC and Medical Insurance Expense Council (MIEC) negotiated on t...
Insertion of measurement device in child's liquid forms to be made compulsory
The Regulatory Reform Committee said that its revised regulation governing the compulsory use in child-resistant container/package of liquid forms and insertion of measurement device in container will go into effect f...
Drug distribution informations may cut off irregularities.
In the Korea Independent Commission Against Corruption (KICAC) meeting led by President Roh Moo-hyun at Cheongwhatae on Nov. 9, Minister Kim Keun-tae of MOHW said that any negative practices such as drug trade rebates...
Government seeking to apply different NHI price to each medical institution
The National Health Insurance Corporation said on November 10 that its 2005 NHI price negotiations will be made on each medical institution based on the study results of an external organization, reflecting different ...
More BT specialists are needed, ex-KFDA commissioner says
Special measures designed to ensure the large number of biotechnology specialists of Korea Food and Drug Administration and expand its substantial budget are needed to expedite Korea's R&D sector, said Professor Shim ...
Next year NHI price negotiation shrouded in fog
A lot of unclear variables lied ahead in the negotiation of the NHI reimbursement prices for the next year between the NHIC and the medical service providers.
By taking a chance for the NHI finance balances to tur...
Massive number of DMF items verged on dropout.
Quite a number of items filed for the DMF seemed to drop out due to insufficient data, and therefore many raw materials would be unable to report in public even though the pharmaceutical bulk drug report system be imp...
