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Medical circle embracing for incorporating doctor's direct dispensing into Medical Law
The Special Committee for Medical System Development held the 17th meeting on February 4 to discuss the overall revision of health and medical law, while making a review on the regulation of transferring "doctor's dir...
Kim Sung-ho to remain in office as next minister of Health and Welfare
In the midst where Kim Sung-ho, incumbent minister of Health and Welfare, is expected to be one of the most potential candidate of the next minister of Health and Welfare, other candidates Lee Kyung-ho of former vice...
Health ministry sticks to price for leukemia drug
The Ministry of Health and Welfare (MOHW) said on January that it cannot reduce the price for Glivec, explaining that the price was officially announced by the HOHW minister after consultation of the drug evaluation c...
Pharmacists to punish when failing service training classes.
The government administrative measures will be strictly imposed to the pharmacists who are not completed their service training classes as provisionally required.
The Special Commission for the Pharmaceutical Syste...
Pharmacy and medical institutions must issue the payment receipts.
The National Health Insurance Corporation (NHIC) is going to establish a provisional obligation for the medical institutions including pharmacies to issue the payment receipts in order to minimize the NHI financial lo...
2003 quality control inspection program for 2,300 drugs eyed
The Korea Food and Drug Administration (KFDA) said it would implement its 2003 quality control inspection program on a total of 2300 items (1,300 voluntarily collected items plus 1,000 planned inspection items...
Dispensing without prescriptions found most prevalent violations.
The recent pharmacy inspection revealed that the dispensing without physician's prescriptions were most prevalent, requiring a special caution at pharmacies, especially selling drugs for quality of life improvement su...
Pharmacy illegal dispensing on remarkable declining trend.
The government inspection against the total 3,682 including 1,749 pharmacies, 179 drug wholesalers and 1,604 medical device sellers during the 4th quarter of 2002 detected the total 131 of violators, showing a remarka...
False and exaggerate drug advertising most in prevalence.
The government's pharmacy inspection revealed that violation was mostly prevailed in the false and exaggerate drug advertising and wrong labelling on the drug packages following 29.6% of the adulterated drugs.
The ...
US FDA to speed generic drug approval
Informed sources say that President Bush will ask Congress for a budget boost aimed at bring generic drugs to the market more quickly by hiring more people to review applications at the US Food and Drug Administration...
