News About: Goverment
Professionals' monthly incomes are dwindling
Rep. Kim Hong-shin, a member of the National Assembly's Health and Welfare Committee, said during the recent parliamentary session on the National Pension Corporation that the July 2003 income of professiona...
Impotence drugs put under abuse prone drug category.
The KFDA announced a newly revised provision of ruling the abuse prone drugs on Sept. 26 and designated new impotence drugs like Tadalafil and Vardenafil preparations under this abuse prone drug category.
Dextrom...
Full-fledged implementation of DRG system is being still debated
The Ministry of Health and Welfare has recently reaffirmed its plan to push ahead with the full-fledged DRG (diagnosis related group) system by drawing up a final draft from the Health and Medical Policy Deliberation ...
HIRA to introduce automated monitoring system to prohibit dual prescription of drugs in early...
HIRA to introduce automated monitoring system to prohibit dual prescription of drugs in early next year
The Health Insurance Review Agency said during the September 25 parliamentary interpellation session that an D...
Government urged to manage umbilical cord blood
The government needs to study measures to tackle some problems associated with the overheated competition of domestic umbilical cord blood market, including its storage and availability in treatment, which was raised ...
Automatic checking system for irregular medical bills now under operation.
During the parliamentary inspection by the National Assembly Health and Welfare Committee over of the government administration, the Health Insurance Review Agency (HIRA) indicated on Sept. 25 that the automatic check...
Government's drug price cut-off to save 331.4 BW.
Rep. Kim Seong-soon of the MDP said that according to the data received from the HIRA the NHI drug prices had been slashed 10 times since 2001 by the government's post supervision on the drug actual transaction prices...
Pharmaceutical R&D budget at 124.4 BW in 2004.
The total government's R&D budget for pharmaceuticals in 2004 including the new drug discovery was proposed at 124.4 billion won.
The 2004 MOHW budget, the total 9,732,700 million won, which was 9.6% up from this ...
Health ministry to push for six-year pharmacy college education system
Minister of Health and Welfare Kim Hwa-joong testified before a meeting of the recent parliamentary inspection team that the envisaged six-year pharmacy college education system needs to be implemented as a global sta...
Government urged to activate substitute drug dispensing through scrapping of post-dispensing notice
Rep. Kim Sung-soon, a member of the National Assembly's Health and Welfare Committee insisted during a parliamentary inspection session to the Korea Food and Drug Administration that the government should scrap the cu...
