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Government urged to establish new department responsible for radiation-based sterilization
Amid grown concern about increasing imports of contaminated herbs, sanitary aids and food raw materials from China in future, related industry has called for the government to promote the introduction of radiation-bas...
Korea playing as a key nation in international healthcare aids.The International Health and Medical Foundation was established after the founding congress on Dec. 10 at the convention center of Hilton hotel with objectives of raising fund a...
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MOHW reshuffles its organization
The Ministry of Health and Welfare announced it has reshuffled its organization in a bid to ensure better efficiency in the related business and to shore up its function over foreign issues such as WTO and DDO.
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Insurance prices of 83 items to be reduced from January 2004
The Ministry of Health and Welfare says health insurance price of 83 items will be reduced from January 1st of next year by 23.84 percent on average.
According to the ministry, 344 items from 178 substances...
Promotion of drug e-commerce system eyed
The Korea Health Industry Development Institute said in a report that the establishment of on-line pharmacies should be permitted and on top of that, OTCs should also be sold via supermarkets in a bid to effectively m...
Viagra and other abuse prone drugs under special supervision.
The KFDA announced to reinforce a special supervision and guidance against the psychotropic and abuse prone drugs including Viagra, Cialis and Xenical after declaring the 2004 guidance for narcotic drug controls, and ...
KFDA to inspect 70 pharmaceutical, cosmetic and medical device companies.
The KFDA and its regional offices inspected the total 70 companies including 20 KGMP pharmaceutical companies, 5 quasi-drug manufacturers, 3 cosmetic and 37 medical device makers from Nov. 10 to 18, and found 28 pharm...
Controversy arises over introduction of drug utilization review system next year
The government unveiled a plan to implement a new drug utilization review (DUR) system designed to check the prescription of contraindicated drugs and/or drugs prohibiting the use beyond specific age groups next year ...
Modifications of manufacturing license can be delivered via internet
The Korea Food and Drug Administration announced it would implement a new guideline to disseminate modified information of manufacturing license via internet from this December as part of its efforts to establish the ...
Central Pharmaceutical Affairs Review Council to reshuffle.
The current 5 subcommittees of the Central Pharmaceutical Affairs Review Council will be extended to 7 in order to enhance its professional service efficiency effective from the next year, which included "Natural Crud...
