News About: Goverment
Expansion of special medical care recipients eyed
The Ministry of Health and Welfare (MOHW) says it will further expand the scope of special medical care recipients from this July by mitigating the income and wealth criteria of supporters in the low income bracket fr...
Product Liability Center for pharmaceuticals set up.
The MOHW and the KPMA set up "Pharmaceutical PL Center" as a non-court arbitration organization to cope with the forthcoming enforcement of the PL Act. The Center may take care of a rapid and smooth resolution of any ...
Dispute on the insurance price of Glivec is still far from being settled
Even in the midst of the growing disaccords over the insurance prices of Glivec between civil organizations and Novartis Korea, both parties are still repeating their own claims and to make matters worse, the situatio...
Unified content standards needs on nutritional supplements for children use
Since various components contained in the nutritional supplements for children in pharmacies exceed or lack the standard contents, unified content standards needs to be urgently established, according to the recent co...
Separation of drug dispensing from medical practice analyzed
Pharmaceutical industry sources say that the current system of separating drug dispensing from medical practice (SDP function) still needs to be further ameliorated, since the proprietors of pharmacies are still engag...
9.14% additional price slash against 776 NHI drugs.
The MOHW intended to turn down the drug price additionally by 9.14% against 776 NHI drugs taking effect from July 1, but its enforcement time has not been determined due to different opinions postured by the KPhA.
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Mounting criticism on the reporting of drug transaction records in writing
With the 'controversial' mandatory reporting of drug transaction records to be implemented on July 1, the Ministry of Health and Welfare (MOHW) has recently requested the drug makers and wholesalers to submit the rele...
Implementation of related regulations looms the domestic pharmaceutical industry
Business sources say that various drug-related polices to be implemented sooner or later seems likely to affect the domestic pharmaceutical business atmosphere in the latter half of this year. The following is a serie...
Physicochemical test to substitute for bio-equivalent test.
For the drugs that are unable nor necessarily to perform the bio-equivalent test the KFDA decided to substitute it for the physicochemical test or digestive enzyme test.
For the company of producing reference drugs...
Establishment of foreign invested pharmacy within special economic zones eyed
The Ministry of Finance and Economy said May 20 that it is positively contemplating to permit the establishment of foreign invested corporate pharmacies within special economic zones only (e.g., Songdo City of Incheon...
