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KFDA to adopt special product registration system
The current review system applying to the pharmaceutical product registration will be replaced with so called "renewal of product registration" every 5 year along with a special product registration covering that any ...
DNA chip receives KFDA approval
BiomedLap and Mygene, local biopharmaceutical firms, said on July 20 that it received from the Korea Food and Drug Administration the approval for HPV (human papilloma virus) DNA chip for the first time in Korea.
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Pharmaceutical regulations to be streamlined
The government will revise pharmaceutical regulations on drug-related license system, the Korea Food and Drug Administration said recently.
The changes, which were outlined in the task force meeting of government o...
President Roh reshuffles vice minister-level officialsIn the recent reshuffle of vice minister-level officials, President Roh Moo-hyun appointed Song Jae-sung, 57, the assistant minister at the Health and Welfare Ministry, as the v...
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177 new drugs booked in NHI drug list.
As of August 1 about 177 new drugs will be listed in the NHI reimbursement schedule while the NHI prices of 29 products be reduced, thus the total 304 drugs being changed in its reimbursement.
The 177 new drugs inc...
Establishment of new Korean Society of Pharmaceutical Law & Regulations eyed
The Korea Food and Drug Administration said that a new Korean Society of Pharmaceutical Law & Regulations designed to study and consult all of the regulations related to the current Pharmaceutical Affairs Laws is offi...
Non-proprietors of pharmacy cannot engage in selling health foods: Korea Health Food Association
Recently, the Korea Health Food Association has asked non-proprietors of pharmacy not to engage in selling health foods via agency or door-to-door methods without vendor license.
The association further notes that ...
Assigned printing works for individual drug descriptions permitted.
The KFDA may allow printing works for identification (ID) descriptions on individual drugs to a third party.
In an answer to the civil questions over the printing works for ID description on individual drugs, the ...
Kim Hwa-joong named special advisor to President
President Roh Moo-hyun appointed on July 12 Kim Hwa-joong, former Minister of Health and Welfare, as his honorable special advisor of health and welfare in addition to two special advisors Lee Chung-woo (national pol...
KMA totally to reject 6 year pharmacy school system.
The Korea Medical Association (KMA) decided to make a whole nullification of the 6 year pharmacy school program at Dong-A hall of the KMA office building during "the national representative's rally for the medical dem...
