News About: Goverment
Research Service to be Propelled for the Improvement of Separation System
Ministry of Health & Welfare carries out an outsourcing research service to grasp achievements and problems of medical & pharmaceutical separation and prepare an improvement direction for these.
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Standards for new drug examination data more to define.
The KFDA plans to refine the scope of the examination data more precisely for drug or new drug reviews, and to reinforce the administrative punishment.
The current provisions required the drug efficacy data for dr...
2nd drug review project to complete by 2006.
The 2nd drug review project started from 1992 will be completed until 2006, and the 3rd project followed from 2007.
The review project by year targeted to complete for the anti-pyretic and analgesic drugs in 1992, ...
In Feb. Extraordinary NA is to Intensively Inquire into Insurance Finances
February extraordinary National Assembly is to be held from the 2nd to the 16th and public health & welfare committee will enter into its activity seriously, starting from work reporting of Korea Food & Drug Administr...
2000 Medical Institution with Problems to be Managed Specially
Health Insurance Review Agency (HIRA) has a policy to specially manage the medical institution with problems including hospitals and pharmacies to establish an order of properly requesting medical charges and eradicat...
Mr. Lee Tae-bok Appointed as Minister at Ministry of Health & Welfare
Lee Tae-bok (aged 51), an ex-chief of labor & welfare at the Blue House, was appointed as a new minister at Ministry of Health & Welfare.
Through the Cabinet reshuffle on 29th, President Kim Dae-jung made Kim Won-g...
Government mulls how to block physician's abuse of the powers.
It is absolutely necessary for physicians to write their prescriptions in generic names. The provisionally specified obligation on the physician's common prescription list has gone astray in the medical communities, a...
Government take pains to curb expensive drug prescriptions.
The expensive drug prescription has occupied by almost over 50% after the medical and pharmacy role separation program launched, and the MOHW is now trying to find out how to slow down this trend.
The expensive dr...
Reduction in Drug Price by 3.5% for 348 Items of Discount & Premium
As a result of examining specifications of insurance medicine trade for the third and fourth quarter last year, an action of reducing drug prices by 3.5% on average will be taken for the 348 items with confirmation of...
Legislation for basic law of life ethics on spurt.
Recently the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) publicly invited "21th century frontier project team" for "the cell applied research and development project unit" but found problems of the life ethics, which ur...
