News About: Goverment
Special inspections over KGMP operation urgently required.
The Health and Welfare Committee (HWC) members of the National Assembly, from both of the ruling and the opposing party, criticized that the medication disaster occurred at Baek hospital in Geojae island should be bla...
Use of name "medical" will be prohibited as sign of pharmacy
In a recent question that the use of "00medical" may be recognized as the name of pharmacy, the Ministry of Health and Welfare replied that a proprietor of pharmacy should not use the name, since it is apt to be misle...
Government to revise pricing calculation criteria
The Ministry of Health and Welfare adopted a revised insurance price-setting process plan for new drugs, which is based on prices listed in the insurance books of seven advanced countries as of end-August this year.
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Bio equivalency test mandatory for copy drug registration.
Effective from July 2004 the bio equivalent test data will be mandatory to submit for the registration of copy drugs, and the drugs proven of bio equivalency are entitled to increase its price by 80% from the comparab...
Drug suppliers required to submit their third-quarter records
The Ministry of Health and Welfare (MOHW) has called for drug manufactures and importers to directly submit to the ministry their supply records of insurance-covered drugs transacted in a period ranging from July to S...
Substitutive dispensing must precede Reference Pricing system.
A civic group claimed that the Reference Pricing system should not be forcefully implemented unless the substitutive dispensing be preceded.
The Solidarity for People's Health as Right (SPHR) pointed out in their s...
Foreigner's pharmacy to allow in economic special zone.
The government finally concluded the draft of the bill regarding the Economic Special Zone Act in the state council's meeting on Oct. 15 and will transmit it to the National Assembly during the plenary session, coveri...
4 in 10 cancer patients survive over 5 years in Korea.
The recent MOHW statistics revealed that 4 in 10 patients who were diagnosed as cancer in 1995 found alive over 5 years, which traced 59,602 patients until 2001. The data was compiled from the National Statistical Off...
Health ministry goes forward with new drug plan
The Ministry of Health and Welfare (MOHW) is pushing to implement a new reference price system (RPS) by the end of this year after holding public hearings and discussing the matter with related parties, including civi...
Incentive plans for prescribing cheaper drugs extending to physicians.
The government is now considering to extend an incentive plan for physicians who prescribe lower priced prescription drugs as an alternative way to soothe the opposing movement of medical community over the government...
