News About: Goverment
MOHW & Prosecution strengthen cooperation for rebate investigation
It seems the government will get stricter in inspecting rebates by strengthening agreements with relevant agencies.
The Ministry of Health and Welfare(MOHW) announced it will hold a meeting for business negotiation w...
MOHW starts to prepare for General Development Plans for Secondary Pharma Industry
The Ministry of Health and Welfare(MOHW) will start to prepare for the Mid/Long-term General Plans for Secondary Health and Medical R&D.
The MOHW held the 5th ‘Public-Private Council for Promotion of Bio-health Indus...
MSIP to sponsor new drug development up to non-clinical study with KRW 500 billion within 10 years
The government has attracted the industry as planning to carry out a project to support new drug development up to the non-clinical study phase with KRW 500 billion within 10 years.
Deputy Director Nam-Gyu Cho at the...
MFDS’s goal to increase self-sufficiency of Korean vaccines to 50%
In order to protect the national health through prevention of infectious diseases and stay alerted against bioterrorism, the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety(MFDS) announced on the 27th that it will strengthen the con...
MOHW’s administrative measures will gain momentum on ‘Novartis’ rebate case’
The Novartis’ rebate case, which has been paused for a moment, will be accelerated by the Ministry of Health and Welfare(MOHW) in administrative disposition.
According to the MOHW on the 27th, the ministry will annou...
MOHW, “We are planning to extend health insurance benefits for immune-oncology agents”
Insurance benefits and indications for additional immune-oncology agents will be extended.
The Ministry of Health and Welfare(MOHW) announced the Liberty Korea Party Rep. Il-Jong Sung’s plan to extend application of ...
MFDS rejects National Assembly’s request to consider excluding drugs from Serial Number Reporting System
The Ministry of Food and Drug Safety(MFDS) rejected to accept the National Assembly’s request to consider the plan to apply the serial number reporting system only on narcotics and antipsychotic injections.
The MFD...
MOHW discusses problems about the serial number system for distribution companies
The Ministry of Health and Welfare(MOHW) will collect opinions about the acceptance issues, such as unification of 2D barcodes and RFIDs and standardization & obligation of aggregation(bundle number), which has been s...
MFDS announces pharmaceutical products under Drug Utilization Review(DUR)
On the 16th of February, the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety(MFDS) made a public announcement of 607 pharmaceutical products to appropriately use them under the regulation for the Drug Utilization Review.
These prod...
MOHW, “We’ll strengthen training programs for household product sellers”
The Ministry of Health and Welfare(MOHW) announced plans to create a deliberative assembly to adjust the emergency household products and strengthen the training program for sellers of these products.
Minister Jin-Yu...
