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Celebrex reimbursable to elderly patients aged over 65
The Ministry of Health and Welfare announced on August 22 that COX-2 preparations including Celebrex would be reimbursable to arthritis patients aged more than 65 from this September 1st.
Pfizer Korea lowered the h...
Health ministry reshuffles KFDA structure
In an effort to cope with the implementation of the Functional Health Foods Law, the Ministry of Health and Welfare announced on September 2 that it expanded the existing structure of the Korea Food and Drug Administr...
Household's drug outlays in second quarter dipped 4.3%
Korea's average household monthly outlays in the second quarter of this year amounted to 1,896,000 won, up 6.1 percent compared with the same period of 2002, the National Statistics Office reported recently.
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Prime Minister Goh vows to support 5-day workweek
Following the National Assembly's approval of the shortened workweek bill on August 29, which calls for a reduction of working hours from the 44 to 40, Prime Minister Goh Kun issued on September 1st the government's m...
Minimum actually transacted price system reverts to weighted average price system from this...
Minimum actually transacted price system reverts to weighted average price system from this September 1st
The Ministry of Health and Welfare said on August 28 that the existing weighted average price calculation sy...
Warning on early outbreak of Japanese encephalitis
3 weeks earlier warning than the previous year was announced in public by the NIH against Japanese encephalitis epidemic.
The NIH has found over 50% of the mosquito as a mediator of Japanese encephalitis in Jeonna...
KRPIA calling for scrapping of actually transacted minimum drug price system
The Korea Research-based Pharmaceutical Industry Association has called for the Ministry of Health and Welfare to scrap the current actually transacted minimum drug price system and to withdraw the envisaged price-cut...
Drug health registration system to be reformed.
Periodically the health registration of pharmaceutical products will be upgraded by revising the current registration system, the KFDA said.
To this end the KFDA will raise a revised bill of the working rules of th...
KFDA to adopt five-digit system in therapeutic category
The Korea Food and Drug Administration has pushed for a plan to change the current three-digit system of therapeutic category into a five-digit system as in the United States, for Korea's international harmonization w...
Harmful cosmetics prevailing in home-shopping and internet sales.
Many harmful cosmetics containing hazardous components are being sold in a false and exaggerated advertising at the internet or TV home-shopping channels.
The KFDA in association with the Police agency jointly inve...
