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Pharmacy establishment scope for foreigners-only to be extended.
The establishment of pharmacy for foreigners-only in the special economic zone seems to be extended nationwide.
The Bill Examination Subcommittee of the Finance and Economy Committee, the National Assembly, passed ...
Seroquel, anti-psychotic drug, to be medicated with caution.
The KFDA announced warnings for Astrazeneca's Seroquel (Quetiapine fumarate), an anti-psychotic drug, to be prescribed with strict cautions when administering it for patients of diabetics or having disease history of ...
KFDA urged strictly to abide KGMP provisions
The KFDA strongly urged the relevant authorities to keep thorough cares with caution over the quality controls of drugs in all stages starting from the inventory coming in and out, to dispensing and medication process...
Cancer drugs: Phase II clinical studies enough for registration.
The KFDA may approve the product registration for anti-cancer drugs only with the phase II clinical study data to speed up the drug development and help cancer patients to get an appropriate treatment utmost timely, a...
License system of drugs with improved formulation, etc. to be reformed
The Korea Food and Administration (KFDA) has announced that the conventional license system of drug with improved formulation, etc. will be reformed so as to expedite the development of new drugs and promote the domes...
KFDA to approve in vitro diagnostics as OTCs
The KFDA plans to switch in vitro diagnostics into OTCs in a bid to foster a biotechnology industry and protect the consumers.
Noting that since a majority of self-test kits are classified into prescription drugs e...
Drug prices unavoidable to cut down.
The pharmacy communities are extremely alert to which the Health Insurance Policy Council cut down the relative value points directly causing the current pharmacist's dispensing fees to reduce.
The MOHW earlier a...
KFDA to draft approval of protocol on drug
The approval for revision of a clinical trial protocol on drug will be simplified and new drugs for clinical trial purpose may be administered to patients to a terminal-phase cancer and AIDS prior to market authorizat...
MOHW to finalize relative value point system.
The MOHW finally decided the health insurance relative value points according to the report presented by the assigned study.
The MOHW took the NHI policy deliberation council's meeting on Nov. 5 and passed the pla...
Abolition of product license system related to drugs for clinical trial purpose eyed
The Ministry of Health and Welfare announced on November 5 the revised degree of the enforcement regulations of the Korean Pharmaceutical Affairs Law, the salient points of which are as follows:
- For those patient...
