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Health ministry to evaluate SDP system via questionnaire
The Ministry of Health and Welfare announced that it will conduct a 26-point questionnaire survey as part of efforts to introduce a card system designed to purchase drugs at pharmacy, while evaluating the overall func...
KFDA to draft revised pharmaceutical manufacturing standards.
The KFDA disclosed a revised draft of the pharmaceutical manufacturing standards on Aug. 23, which included a new establishment of athlete foot, ring worm (trichophytia) and hair removal preparations among the anti-fu...
Drug-related license administration to be streamlined
The Korea Food and Drug Administration has announced that a serious of measures have been adopted to streamline procedures for drug-related license administration and thus ensure transparency in screening drug-related...
Functional health foods shall not be prescribed.
Despite the MOHW's interpretation that the physician's prescription of functional health food supplements be legally unjustifiable, many western and oriental doctors are still prescribing them continuously probably be...
New product licenses totals 684 in first half
The Korea Food and Drug Administration announced that licenses for new products in the first half of this year totaled 684, thanks to surging trend in the number of newly-tested bioequivalence items. Of the ...
Substitution for any drugs proven of bio-equivalency permissible.
The MOHW interpreted that any drugs that were already proven of its bio-equivalency are allowed to substitute for drugs prescribed by physicians when a detailed reason for the substitution ban was not specifically des...
KFDA, Prosecutors and Police Agency agreed joint cooperation
A joint cooperation among the KFDA, the Public Prosecutor's Office and the National Police Agency seems to be substantiated under a certain treaty, a draft of which was already prepared and soon announced in public.
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Government mulls pharmaceutical price cut in third quarter
The government recently unveiled a set of measures aimed at improving the people's worsening economic conditions by weak domestic demand amid the delayed economic recovery.
During a Cabinet meeting presided by Pres...
Drug labelling to ameliorate for more consumer centered.
The drug outer package will be changed in which all descriptions should be designed for more consumer's conveniencies in big letter sizes and the administration precaution be moved to show from the inserted direction ...
KFDA approves GSK’s Paxil CR for use in PMDD and social anxiety disorder
The Korea Food and Drug Administration said it has approved GSK’s Paxil (paroxetine HCl) controlled-release tablets for the treatment of premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD) and social anxiety disorder in addition t...
