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Ferritin preparations to remove from safety and efficacy reviews.
The health registration of Ferritin preparations, a blood preparation derived from horses, were cancelled in 2000 due to the horse and human viral injections, and now, it has been removed from the preparations categor...
Massive registration surge of cold remedies containing pseudo-ephedrine.
As of Aug. 1, this year, the cold remedy containing pseudo-ephedrine to substitute for PPA showed a massive registration as many as the total 325 products according to the KFDA account.
The cold remedies containing...
KFDA to inspect sale of PPA-containing cold drugs
A total of 340 inspectors from the Korea Food and Drug Administration and its six regional KFDA agencies, cites/provinces and regional pharmacist associations have begun undertaking the mass crackdown campaign nationw...
OECD-based pricing guideline should be introduced, lawmaker suggests
The government needs to re-evaluate the current pricing-set system of reimbursable drugs and introduce a new OECD-based pricing guideline to discourage the increasing prescription patter toward high-priced drug and pr...
BAI to raise provisional reforms for more substituted dispensing
The Board of Audit and Inspection of Korea (BAI) found that the post notification provision played as a main hampering constrain for pharmacies unable to actively exercise their substituted dispensing. The current pos...
BAI warns of drug wholesalers' insufficient capital funds
The Board of Audit and Inspection worried that of 86 drug wholesalers based in Seoul and Pusan last year, 19 have failed to meet their legal paid-in capital requirements and their average capital ranges are between 50...
National Assembly called for human rights of clinical testee.
In the parliamentary inspection to the government administration (KFDA) Rep. Kim Seon-mi of the Uri Party raised a question as to the human rights of clinical testee who listed in the clinical and monitoring reports u...
KFDA to cancel drug registrations without production.
A growing number of drugs found registration without actual production according to the National Assembly report. 246 drugs out of the total 490 items proven of its bio-equivalency in 2003 have not been produced at al...
Government-funded R&D investment totaled 72.8 billion won for 4 years
The Ministry of Health and Welfare said it has invested a total of 72.8 billion won for 386 R&D new drug projects since 2001, according to data submitted to the National Assembly during the recent parliamentary inspec...
Separation of drug dispensing from medical practice is in right track.
The implementation of a new system of separating drug dispensing from medical practice since 2000 has been well institutionalized, according to data submitted to the National Assembly by the Ministry of Health and Wel...
