News About: Goverment
Drug prices to cut down soon by 50% in maximum.
Prices of about 14,000 NHI drugs will be soon reviewed, targeting about 110 billion won of NHI financial saving out of 3,800 drugs.
The MOHW announced on Sept. 11 that detailed enforcement plans for "Drug Price Rev...
Controversy over anti-psychotic drugs subsided
Jassen Korea and Lilly Korea have recently agreed that they will no longer argue over the indications and effects of their anti-psychotic drugs, Risperdal (risperidone) and Zyprexa (olanzapine).
The tentative decis...
Essential drugs to supply for typhoon damaged areas.
The pharmaceutical communities including the drug company, pharmacist association and drug wholesalers intensified supplying drugs at right time to the recent typhoon damaged areas in order to help disaster victims in...
Plans of extending pharmacy college education term are mostly favored
The Korea Pharmaceutical Association (KPA), which has recently conducted its broad surveys on the plans of extending pharmacy college education term up to six years, disclosed the first survey results submitted by the...
False medical bills found largely in nighttime treatments
Most of the night time medical treatments were found to bill false or irregular by transferring day care patients into night cares.
Rep. Yoon Yeo-joon of GNP checked the medical bills at the NHIC and found that abo...
KFDA keen on safety profiles of drugs at home and abroad
The Korea Food and Drug Administration will conduct its on-spot inspection on serum-derived material importers to ensure the importation of safety-proven albumin materials. To that end, an investigation team consistin...
Fine of 50 million won levied to Pfizer Korea
The Korea Food and Drug Administration (KFDA) announced on September 9 its administrative disposition against the violation of Pfizer Korea which committed the mutually mixing package accident of both Cardura tab. (do...
Medical practitioners allowed to advertise their career and activities.
A public advertising for medical practitioners such as practitioner's career history, number of surgical operations or utility rates of their hospital beds etc. seems to be permitted from April next year in order that...
HIRA found common cold as top overlapped treatment.
The common cold has been found as the top disease on multiple treatments at more than 2 medical institutions per day according to the 2001 medical statistics compiled by the Health Insurance Review Agency (HIRA).
T...
Medical separation program to suspend at typhoon battered regions.
The local government may suspend the implementation of the medical and pharmacy role separation program at the regions where the recent typhoon calamity took place.
The MOHW is going to allow patients in the typho...
