News About: Goverment
SDP function is malfunctioned: survey reports
The recent survey of 1,028 adults (aged 20 or more) across the region conducted by ACE Research, a market survey agency, on September 15 and 16 this year disclosed that 88 percent of the respondents said the new syste...
Output of antibiotics and outpatient prescription rate are still surging
The Korea's production of antibiotics in 2002 accounted for 1.625 trillion won from 1,390 items, up 17.2 percent compared with 909.3 billion in 2002 (1,161 items) and the outpatients' antibiotic prescriptions of commu...
Total 725 drugs subjected to Bio-equivalent tests.
Upon receipt of the official announcement from the KFDA, the Health Insurance Review Agency (HIRA) declared that 41 drugs were additionally included to the items proven of bio-equivalent test, which increased currentl...
Queentiles holding a seminar for pharmaceutical management.
Queentiles Transnational Korea (President: Huh Kyeong-wha) plans to have a seminar for the pharmaceutical business management at Renaissance hotel on Spet. 24 by inviting many executive members in the general manageme...
KHIDI agreed with Nam & Nam for technology transfer.
The Korea Health Industry Development Institute made a contract with Nam & Nam, a law firm, and Interpet for a business cooperation through the health industrial technology transfer to overseas and the legal advice an...
DRG system is likely to affect sales revenue of domestic pharmaceutical industry
The Ministry of Health and Welfare is planning to implement a new DRG (diagnosis related group) system, probably from this November and the new plan is applied to patients receiving surgical operations from the follow...
6 therapeutic groups including multiple metabolic drugs to review.
The drug review in 2004 was projected for 6 therapeutical groups including 4 combined mutli-metabolic drugs and 2 artificial irrigational drugs, the KFDA announced.
4 combined multi-metabolic drugs (Code No. 390) i...
Nation wide SARS system in operation.
Immediately upon releasing the first SARS relapse news from Singapore, the NIH announced that the SARS surveillance system be in operation from Sept. 9.
Complying to the WHO's warning that SARS might recur during t...
MOHW vows to implement 6-year education system of pharmacy college in 2006
The Ministry of Health and Welfare announced recently it will allow pharmacy colleges to extend their education terms by six years from the current four-year term, as part of its effort to ensure more effective pharma...
KFDA to accept industry's revisions on specification and testing methods
The Korea Food and Drug Administration said in a recently held special KGMP surveillance reporting session that it would welcome any revisions on specification and testing methods as part of its efforts to improve the...
