News About: Goverment
KFDA approved second indication for Cozaar.
The KFDA approved Cozaar, an anti-hypertensive drug (Losartan K) of MSD Korea for the treatment of renopathy complicated with the type 2 diabetic patient as the 2nd indication.
The KFDA's approval was based on the ...
KFDA to root out illegal drug sales through internet.
The KFDA announced to intensify far strict inspections over the false and exaggerative advertising activities as well as the illegal sales of drugs, cosmetics and medical devices through the internet shopping malls, T...
Government urged to promote prescription by generic name
Dr. Cho Jae-kook, a chief fellow from the Korea Institute of Health and Social Affairs, said in a recent symposium that the following issues should be addressed for more efficient operation on the ongoing system of se...
KIPO to help finance registration of promising foreign patent
The Korean Intellectual Property Office says it will support financing (i.e., proxy expense, translation fee) of individual and/or small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to reduce their financial burden in a bid t...
Government and Civil Export Support Headquarter to be formed.
The government and civil export support group seems to be established in an attempt to divert the trade deficit problems and to foster the drug industry as a nation's strategic project.
The KFDA announced that th...
Health Minister encountered whipping from National Assembly.
In the National Assembly's health and welfare committee's meeting on Mar. 31 the MOHW presented 3 steps of development plans for the national health insurance system and also pledged to launch the integration of the n...
Pharmaceutical industry to support under national core industrial strategy.
The MOHW determined intensively to support the pharmaceutical industry as a national core industrial project for the upcoming generation, aiming at the profit restructure improvement by the overseas market development...
Registration process for modified new drugs to be simplified
The KFDA plans to simplify the registration process for a modified new drug in order to enhance the industrial competitiveness and to encourage the development of such modified new drugs, which include a new drug modi...
Transfer plan of key government agencies hits snag
The government original plan to create a new life science complex in Osung of Chungbuk Province is likely to be delayed or mired as the natives have filed a court injunction against any construction work due to soarin...
Ministry of Industry and Energy to secure high BT brains.
The Ministry of Industry and Energy (MOIE) set "the Innovative Support Projects for BT Educational System" by spending 5.6 billion won in a 5 year-project starting from 2003 for the purpose of systematically recruitin...
