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KFDA to wipe out false or exaggerated drug ads
The Korea Food and Drug Administration (KFDA) has unveiled on August 14 its comprehensive measures designed to stamp out false or exaggerated drug advertisements in a joint collaboration with regional KFDA agencies wi...
More activation of bioequivalence testand substitute dispensing eyed
The Ministry of Health and Welfare and KFDA are contemplating to find ways of activating substitute dispensing by attracting a number of the domestic pharmaceutical firms in bioequivalence test.
(1) Bioequivalence ...
Mutual mixing cases of Pfizer Korea's Cardura tab. and Cofreltab. discovered
The Korea Food and Drug Administration (KFDA) has recently announced it destroyed all of the collected quantities associated with the package-mixed Cardura (doxazosin mesylate) tab.andCofrel (benproperine phosphate) t...
Provisions for prescription in generic names to raise legislation.
The Seoul Pharmaceutical Association announced on Aug. 13 to raise a bill for the prescriptions to be written in generic drug names during the plenary session of the National Assembly in Sept.
To this end the Assoc...
Drugs for gastrointestinal treatment to resume NHI coverage.
The MOHW announced the revised provisions titled "The detailed particulars pertaining to the application standards and methods for the NHI payment (the MOHW Ordinance No 2002-57, Aug. 14, 2002)" according to Article 3...
Joint Committee urged to revise drug price determination system.
The Chronic Leukemia Patients Association and the Joint Committee for Gleevec Issue (a joint committee for the resolution of Gleevec issue and the extension of public interests to drugs) jointly took a rally in front ...
Each pharmacy charged at 140 million won on average.
The total bills charged by pharmacies amounted to 2,496,700 million won during the first half of this year, which showed about 15% up from the same period of last year, and the bill value per pharmacy was about 140 mi...
Tentative one-year implementation of minimum pricing system eyed
The Ministry of Health and Welfare (MOHW) announced that the reimbursement calculation criteria for insurance drug prices was changed from the weighed average pricing system to a minimum pricing system of actually tra...
Substitutive dispensing possible at 70% of regions across nation.
Where the common prescription drug lists are not ready as provisionally required, the substitutive dispensing with already proven drugs of efficacy equivalency may go ahead without prior physician's agreement. The cur...
H-Pharm's Propin capsule designated as first bioequivalence test-waivered item
The Korea Food and Drug Administration (KFDA) announced that H-Pharm's antidepressant Propin capsule (fluoxetine HCl) was granted as the first bioequivalence test-waivered item, since its policy of expanding the waive...
