News About: Goverment
Establishment of Korea Drug Information Management Institute eyed
The government is planning to bring its new Korea Drug Information Management Institute (KDIMI) into operation from 2006, which will provide for reliable and professional drug-related information on the government lev...
Medical and drug terminology to be described far easier.
The medical and drug terminology in the inserted direction circular of drug packages will be described in common Korean language.
The KFDA pointed out that the direction circular contained in the drug packages was ...
Drug advertising to build its credibility grounds.
The KPMA launched so called Drug Advertising Preview System in Feb. 1989 for the purpose of enhancing the credibility of drug advertising, and now it seems to be soft landed, viewing that in the past 700 preview meeti...
Drafting of Medical Dispute Mediation Law is facing rough going
The Medical and Pharmaceutical Special Committee (MPSC) held the 3rd meeting to examine the medical dispute mediation bill at the Korea Institute of Health and Social Affairs on October 10 but failed to reach an agree...
Penicillins: most antibiotic resistant.
The antibiotic resistance has shown the top with Penicillins by 93.7% out of whole antibiotics according to the monitoring data collected and reported by the KFDA. After then, Erythromycin showed 32.7%, Tetracycline 1...
Enterobacter species discovered in gallamine injection
The National Institute of Scientific Investigation (NISI) announced it discovered E. cloacae, one of enterobacter species, in gallamine injection (lot No. H005) indicated for muscle relaxation through its chemical ana...
Reliability on bioequivalence test to be strengthened
The Korea Food and Drug Administration (KFDA) said that although it allows the corresponding pharmaceutical firms to perform the bioequivalence tests using their existing labs and personnel in a bid to promote the tes...
Illegal drug uses at medical institutions in serious problems.
A massive number of illegal drug uses at medical institutions was detected recently in the joint inspection conducted by the Daejon district KFDA in cooperation with Daejon city and Choongnam province from Sept. 2 to ...
License-cancelled drugs are still in the insurance-covered list
Rep. Choi Young-hee of the minority Millennium Democratic Party (MDP) said during the recent parliamentary inspection on October 4 that of 136 drugs which were deemed inappropriate by the quality control t...
Urgent needs of more generic prescriptions and no business collusion.
Prof. Kim Yong-ik, of Seoul National University College of Medicine who deeply involved in the current government's medical and pharmacy role separation program (hereinafter called "separation program") stressed in hi...
