News About: Goverment
Pharmacists expect firmer establishment of two-year-old health care reform
With liberal and pro-pharmacist candidate Roh Moo-hyun, a presidential candidate for Millennium Democratic Party (MDP) elected president on December 19, business sources say that pharmacists will pitch their voices hi...
KFDA Drug Safety Bureau to run Civil Service Room.
The KFDA Drug Safety Bureau plans to run a "Civil Service Room" every Thursday or Friday to make an efficient administrative service for drug related affairs.
The Room will set up under the Drug Safety Bureau of KF...
KPA protesting the description of oriental medicine in specific drugs
The Korea Food and Drug Administration (KFDA) has intended to newly add the following regulation in the rules on the review of application for manufacture or import of drugs and quasi-drug (Paragraph 2, Article 7; bra...
KFDA to enforce GLP from next year.
Effective from Jan. 1, 2003 the KGLP will be enforced to apply all pharmaceutical non-clinical tests, and therefore the drug industry has to build up the GLP (Good Laboratory Practice) infra and its activities.
To ...
Lending acts on license for dispensing oriental drugs are illegal
A pharmacist, who lend his license for dispensing oriental drugs to the others in the absence of pharmacy, should be subject to administrative disposition due to the fact that such lending is regarded as the lending o...
Drastically simplifying requirements for modified new drugs to register.
The KFDA will drastically simplify the required safety and efficacy data for modified new drugs to register in order to entice its development as following plans.
For the modified new drug only to register its addi...
Process of actual transaction price check needs to ameliorate.
Under the circumstances of which the government's treatment for the claims raised by the drug suppliers against the government's unfair drug pricing check went circumventive largely caused by the government's policy i...
Cultured epidermal autografts developed successfully in Korea
The Food and Drug Administration (KFDA) said it has approved market authorization of Tego Science's biotechnology-based Holoderm, cultured epidermal autograft, a skin replacement product that can permanently close a b...
OTC drug prices all varied at different stores.
The public prices of OTC drugs showed quite a different gap among different pharmacies, which may jeopardize the credibility of pharmacy.
Besides, the purchasing prices of OTC drugs did not show any big balance wit...
MOHW mulls over reactivating measures for neighbour pharmacies.
The MOHW is trying to activate a neighbour pharmacy business, which had been deteriorated in consequence to the medical reform program.
The activating measures seem to be driven by the MOHW through the Pharmaceutic...
