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Cold remedy makers publicizing safety of non-PPA substances
With growing public anger over the belated response of the Korea Food and Drug Administration to prohibit 167 cold remedies containing phenylpropanolamine (PPA), a number of pharmaceutical firms are making desperate e...
Deputy Minister Song to comment on drug reclassification and PPA related incidences.
Deputy minister Song Jae-seong of MOHW made it clear in the press interview just after the KFDA special auditing report as saying "The drug reclassification shall be proceeded as a long term study project in a premise...
Government to expand health insurance coverage for serious diseases
The Ministry of Health and Welfare announced it has expanded the conventional health insurance allowance to three items, such as Zeffix tablet, Vancomycin injection and Ambisome injection, including anticancer agents ...
Government policy to focus on drug reclassification and DUR activation.
The government and the ruling Uri party discussed the sales ban on the PPA contained remedies and the future administrative and drug safety measures focusing on the drug reclassification and the enforcement of the DUR...
Government vows to investigate potential harmful substances
Amid mounting public outcry over the belated ban of the Korea Food and Drug Administration on phenylpropanolamine (PPA)-containing cold remedies, the government unveiled its plan to make efforts to remove PPA-containi...
NHI to reimburse yearly 26,200 thousand cases of PPA drugs.
The annual average NHI reimbursement for the PPA drugs during the past 3 years from 2001 to 2003 was 26,200 thousand cases billed by pharmacies and hospitals.
According to the HIRA's report to Rep. Ahn Myeong-ok of...
Pharmacy school plan to extend curriculum will take place in 2009
The Education Ministry reaffirmed that the hotly debated plan to extend curriculum of pharmacy college from four to six years will be implemented in 2009, now that the presidential decree of high school education law ...
Functional health foods manufacture at pharmaceutical GMP plant.
It is very likely for the pharmaceutical GMP plant to grant any production of functional health foods.
The MOHW disclosed a revised draft of the Working Rules of the Functional Health Food Act on July 29 covering t...
176 institutes appointed for clinical studies of drugs.
The KFDA reported the total 176 institutes of clinical studies on drugs as of July 2004 including Seoul National University Hospital, 21 for the phase I studies, 65 for the phase II studies and 88 for the phase III st...
Pharmacy can be established in same hospital-located floor building
The Supreme Court awarded on July 29 that a pharmacist can establish a pharmacy in a same floor building where hospitals are located, provided that the new proprietor of pharmacy has not been suspected of any collusio...
