News About: Goverment
KFDA to enhance review efficiency for drug safety and efficacy.
KFDA plans to have an explanatory meeting at the auditorium of the Disease Control Office at 2 p.m. on March 18 to improve the drug safety and efficacy review, to satisfy conveniencies to the civilian needs and to kee...
KFDA approves more convenient administration of NorLebo tablet
Hyundai Pharm said on March 9 that more convenient administration method of NorLevo (levonorgestrel) tablet, an emergency contraceptive product that prevents the starting of a pregnancy, was approved from the Korea Fo...
Government and KPMA to complete road map for boosting local pharmaceutical industry
Recently, the Ministry of Health and Welfare, the Korea Health Industry Development Institute and the Korea Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association drafted, via brain storming, a road map designed to strengthen the c...
MOHW mulls NHI drug approval. system based on positive list
MOHW said that almost all of drugs registered to KFDA were automatically listed to the NHI reimbursement book, for which, MOHW thought it to raise problems that should be trimmed in view of efficient NHI drug controls...
Health Ministry to revamp minimum actually trade price system
Recently, the Ministry of Health and Welfare unveiled its 2004 health and welfare research plan to ameliorate the current management of insurance-covered drugs under the conventional minimum actually trade price syste...
KFDA to reshuffle drug review standards substantially.
KFDA intends to set up more detailed plans for the quality assurance of drugs on the market and its safety controls by adopting a new system for those drugs to be reviewed in its safety and efficacy at any time withou...
Health insurance allowance possible for Visudyne
The Ministry of Health and Welfare announced recently revised terms for health insurance allowance for Novartis Korea's Visudyne (verteporfin) for the treatment of predominantly classic form of age-related macular deg...
KFDA to prosecute adulterated health functional food makers.
KFDA detected adulterated health functional foods of which the manufacturers advertently put laxatives to sell as a functional food for the treatment of obesity and chronic constipation. The product contained with Sod...
Korea Health Food Association to toughen health food advertisement layout rules
Korea's health food makers will face a tougher advertisement layout rules from the Korea Health Food Association, industry sources said recently.
The KHFA said that of the 93 items whose advertisement layouts were ...
Free internet inquiries of 172 contraindicated drugs in prescription sought
The Health Insurance Review Agency announced that from March 2, it has provided via internet a list of 172 contraindicated drugs in prescription that may be freely accessible to eligible medical software suppliers and...
