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Fair trade panel eyes standard clause system to health foods
Korea Trade Commission will begin overhauling its standard clause policies governing franchise (dining-out business), clean water devices, and rental sectors in an attempt to expand them to health foods, the agency sa...
Health ministry to spend 2.5 trillion won on biotechnology
The Ministry of Health and Welfare announced recently that it would spend almost 2.47 trillion won on research and development of at least six biopharmaceuticals and three organ chips including consolidation of Korea'...
Pharmacies mired in handling psychotropic drugs with expired shelf-life
The accumulated inventories of psychotropic drugs at pharmacy are hurting a majority of pharmacies, as their shelf-life has been already expired and thus a great number of drugs are subject to total disposal without e...
MOHW to designate 10 contraindicated ingredients in specific age brackets
The MOHW announced on January 16 that the following ingredients should not be prescribed to the corresponding age groups in parenthesis, together with 162 items which should not be concurrently used with other drugs:
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MOHW to reduce cancer patients' out-of-pocket money to 20%
The Ministry of Health and Welfare announced that from January 1st 2004, the medical insurance costs of 300,000 cancer patients were lowered to 20 percent from 30-50 percent during their medical diagnosis as outpatien...
NHI prices for 1,723 drugs to be changed.
The MOHW announced on Jan. 14 that under the newly revised provision the NHI prices for the total 1,723 drugs from 338 companies would be changed from Feb. 1, which included 114 new drugs from 67 companies.
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KFDA approves additional indication of UltracetThe Korea Food and Drug Administration said that it approved another indication of Janssen Korea's Ultracet for the relief of moderate to severe pain in addition to the short-te...
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Many imported health food supplements found substandard
Quite a number of imported health food supplements and special nutritional products were found unacceptable by the government inspection.
The KFDA Kyeongin regional office inspected 64,186 of imported foods in 2003...
5 candidates applied for KFDA Drug Safety Director.
Earlier the KFDA opened to invite the position of Drug Safety Director in public and as of Jan. 13, 5 candidates including Mr. Lee Hee-seong, the KFDA auditing officer and Prof. Shin Hyeon-taek of Sukmyeong Women Univ...
Proprietors of pharmacy and drug wholesaler would likely face tougher facility area standards
The Korea Food and Drug Administration unveiled its plan to apply more stringent regulation on the currently unrestricted facility area to proprietors of pharmacy and drug wholesalers in a bid to ensure better establi...
