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Substitute drug dispensing plan hit snag
In spite of President Roh Moo-hyun's repeated pledges over substitute drug dispensing during his campaigning last December, the Health Ministry is still hesitating to push up with the plan without lifting various regu...
KFDA mulls reciprocal recognition of GMP internationally.
As a mid and long term development project over the safety administration of foods and drugs the KFDA is trying to put the KGMP standard up to the world advanced level by adopting reciprocal recognition of the GMP in ...
Government to expand balanced health insurance finance
Vowing to set the basic format of a "participatory government" social welfare system, Minister of Health and Welfare Kim Hwa-joong said on May 7 that the expansion and better finance in the welfare sector critically r...
Medical bill cut never solving NHI financial problems.
President Kim Jae-jeong of the KMA met with Mr. Park Chong-woong, the chief commissioner of the National Assembly Health and Welfare Committee on May 6 and conveyed the complaints of medical communities over the gover...
KFDA to scrutinize drug bar code system
The Korea Food and Drug Administration said it will strengthen its inspection measures to stamp out any violation acts involved in the drug bar code indication system due to little recognition from the industry concer...
KFDA grants Apatoxin inj. as novel natural drug
The Korea Food and Drug Administration announced on May 3 that Guju's Apatoxin inj. (dried bee venom) received the first manufacturing approval for the treatment of osteoarthritis as a new natural drug for the first t...
Health minister to coordinate welfare reforms
Minister of Health and Welfare Kim Hwa-joong said on May 1 via her detailed statement responded to the following issues raised by members of parliamentary committee of health and welfare last month:
1) Institutiona...
KFDA newly set up medical device safety bureau.
The KFDA announced to upgrade the medical device department into its bureau in order to build up an efficient medical device administration system.
The KFDA admitted that the medical device administration had been ...
Suspected SARS patients may not be SARS.
Minister Kim wha-joong of the MOHW announced on April 30 that Mr. "K" (49 years old) who was suspected of a SARS infected patient might not be the SARS patient but very likely to be a patient suffering simply from a b...
12% of 45 year-old Koreans suffering from COPD.
According to the survey conducted by the Korean Society of Respiratory and the Korea Health and Social Affairs Research Institute, 12% of the 45-year old Koreans (4.4% female and 8% in total) are suffering from the ch...
