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District court decided abusive antibiotic medication bill rejection lawful.
The Seoul district court judged that the NHI payment restriction to abusive antibiotic medications was justifiable.
The Seoul district court decided the administrative suit raised by a university hospital against t...
Drug-related administration to be continuously reformed
Vowing to ensure better finance stability in the national health insurance sector, a new Minister of Health and Welfare Kim Sung-ho announced his plan to implement a set of measures (including reference pricing system...
Mr. Shin Eon-hang appointed as new vice minister of MOHW.Mr. Shin Eon-hang, the former head officer of the Social Welfare Policy Office of the MOHW has been nominated as the new vice minister of MOHW.
President Kim Dae-jung follow...
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Questioning over alleged drug firms' lobbying to be decided on June 27 in National Assembly
The National Assembly is soon scheduled to investigate the recent controversy over alleged lobbying by multinational pharmaceutical companies in Korea by the summoning of witnesses.
The committee of Health and Welf...
Prescriptions in generic drug names to push up.
Mr. Kim Sung-soon, a National Assembly representative of the MDP strongly claimed in the Health and Welfare Committee's interpellation meeting on July 18 under the presence of the new Minister Kim Sung-ho of MOHW that...
MOHW to mete out punitive dispositions any irregularities at pharmacies
Pharmacists who are engaged in offering premiums or discount coupons during the opening ceremony or commemorative event at pharmacy will be subject to administrative disposition, according to an interpretation of the ...
MOHW to push for the reduction of insurance drug prices
In spite of the remarks of former Health and Welfare Minister Lee Tae-bok that he seemed to have been replaced due to the pressures of pharmaceutical companies, local and foreign, the Ministry of Health and Welfare (M...
Pharmacy practitioners confused by prescription's preservation terms.
Article 25 (Prescription preservation) of the Pharmaceutical Affairs Act calls for the physician's prescription to be preserved for 2 years from the date of dispensing at the pharmacy whereas, however, Article 46, Par...
Pharmacy proprietors prohibited to run other business.
In an official answer to the recent civilian inquiry over the pharmacist's duplicate business jobs the MOHW replied that a pharmacy proprietor shall not run other business nor take part in a corporation as an executiv...
Health and Welfare Committee on action from July 18.
The Health and Welfare Committee plans to have a standing committee's meeting on July 18 to resume their main activities, after electing the responsible secretary general respectively from the GNP and the MDP includin...
