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KFDA to fix 287 subjects for assigned R&D projects.
KFDA finally determined the total 287 subjects of assigned R&D projects in 2004, mainly focusing on the drug equivalency administration projects.
The total 287 subjects in 49 projects included 11 pharmaceutical, 14...
KFDA to expand number of national biological drug-related standards
The Korea Food and Drug Administration unveiled its plan to increase the number of state-run biological drug-related standards in a bid to ensure their better quality.
Earlier, the KFDA announced a list of the foll...
KFDA to estalish Drug Information Office
Chief commissioner Lee Hee-seong of KFDA indicated in his lecture titled "Pharmaceutical Administration Enforcement Strategy" during the general meeting of the Drug Development Specialized Pharmacists Council that Dru...
KFDA mulls over new drug registration data at international standards.
KFDA set up a task force team to prepare new guidelines until coming Oct covering all necessary data formats for required new drug registrations at an international standard, called CTD, that all member nations of the...
KFDA launches special monitoring system against false or exaggerated ads
The Korea Food and Drug Administration announced it has set up a special task force team to monitor false or exaggerated advertisements in which health foods are falsely claimed as having therapeutic effects, or whose...
Korea would likely face oversupply of medical providers
Korea needs to come up with a detailed solution to resolve the expected oversupply of medical human resources, which aims both to reduce the number of new entrants in medical college and introduce a new system of exte...
Doctors and pharmacists seeking to benefit from parliamentary elections
Less than a week before April 15 general elections amid intensifying public criticism over the impeachment of President Roh Moo-hyun, both camps of doctor and pharmacist have revealed their tacit supports for Grand Na...
Description system for individual drugs faced confusion
The description system for individual unit of drugs will take a stepwise implementation from Jan. 1, next year but encountered with quite a confusion mainly due to disobedience of data submission by some drug makers a...
Seoul city government to crack down touting at pharmacy.
Seoul city government announced to conduct a tough supervision through the public health centers against the pharmacies where touted patient patrons with a mileage incentive and other allurements, thus breaching the p...
Pharmacists to disqualify 10 months on false medication bills.
Pharmacists who manipulate documents and invoices or falsely bill medications may be penalized by a maximum 10 month disqualification according to the newly revised working rules of the Pharmaceutical Affairs Act prom...
