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Illegal Health-Foods goes over dangerous level at Hospitals.
At hospitals, an illegal act of selling health foods or prescribing foods as if they are effective for disease treatment goes over a dangerous level, using the restless mentality of patients.
Korea Food & Drug Admi...
44 Ingredients and 72 Items of Clinical Medicines Approved
It was known that the clinical medicines approved as new medicines were 44 ingredients and 72 items last year.
According to the current approval situation of clinical medicines for 2001 Korea Food & Drug Administra...
It's Legal to Establish Pharmacy within Hospital after Changing Use
A decision came out that in case of establishing a pharmacy after changing the use of site at hospital, it was difficult to see it as a medical organization or enclosure facility.
11 Department at Seoul Administra...
Post-notification not required for substituted dispensing
In the talk meeting for activation of the bio-equivalent test program at Palace hotel on Jan. 16 the MOHW indicated that the government and public hospitals will purchase the drugs proven of its bio-equivalency to the...
Since Separation, Use of Antibiotic Medicine & Injection Evidently Has Decreased
It was known that the use of antibiotic medicine and injection has decreased since separation.
According to the material Ministry of Health & Welfare announced, the medicating days of antibiotic medicine decreased ...
Hospitals to be Intensively Supervised if They Change Prescription On Occasion
Ministry of Health & Welfare decided to intensively supervise hospitals which change prescriptions on occasion in consultation with specific pharmacies & leave the surrounding pharmacies out and propel a method of gra...
Drug makers may directly deal with general hospitals in 2003.
The government may allow drug makers to make direct deals with general hospitals, and gradually extend the sale of non-prescription OTC drugs to other stores than pharmacies according to the draft of "2002 Adjustment ...
Prescriptions transmitting to KIOSK only upon patient's requests.
Physician's prescriptions have been transmitted to a Kiosk for hospital's conveniency rather than patient's sake. Now, such a prescription transmission to Kiosk seems to be permitted with only the case of patient's re...
Introduction of Internet Item Reporting System for Medicines
Seoul Food & Drug Administration has a policy to introduce and propel internet item reporting system for medicines from the latter half of the year for the consideration of work efficiency.
Seoul Food & Drug Admini...
52 ingredients added to bioequivalent tests.
The KFDA's bio-equivalent test program has extended additionally to the total 52 new ingredients, 31 for the 2nd from Sept. this year and 21 for the 3rd schedule from Sept. 2003 following the first 24 ingredients as o...
