News About: Goverment
Drug registration process drastically to simplify.
The KFDA announced that effective from Jan. 1 next year all drug registration applications are received by the electronic letters and the Drug Quality Information Book will be published in order to help the drug effic...
The rate for submitting treatment list is low in big cities.
If it is big city like Seoul the rate for submission of treatment list is low and it is only 38%. It showed that submission of treatment list in big cities like Seoul is extremely low.
According to "submit situation ...
Drug industry mulls drug supply boycott.
The drug industry reconfirmed to keep the current NHI drug pricing system against the government's attempt to reshuffle so strong and hard that they would consider even their drug supply boycott when the system be enf...
Enforcement of Drug Price Review System under study.
The drug industry is now sensitively alert to the Drug Price Review System attempted to enforce soon by the MOHW in line with an NHI financial stabilization measure.
The System as a part of "the 3rd measures for N...
Bio-equivalent tests to be mandatory.
The KFDA plans for the bio-equivalent test gradually to be mandatory in process of the drug health registration in order to activate the test. Furthermore, the KFDA intends to recommend an incentive plan to the MOHW f...
Passing of Health functional food law in legislation and judiciary committee vanished
Passing of health functional food in legislation and judiciary committee of national assembly vanished.
Health welfare committee of National Assembly held the 9th judiciary committee regarding the bill and discussed ...
102 prescription drugs switched to non-prescription category.
102 prescription drugs containing 11 different active ingredients have been transferred to a non-prescription drug in the meeting of the Drug Reclassification Commission while 41 non-prescription drugs including Tifle...
Amelioration of actual transaction price system on cross road.
The medical and pharmacy communities stood a sharp conflict over the current actual transaction price reimbursement system that the government is now trying to ameliorate.
The government plan was attempting to aim ...
Drug registration on sharp declining in number after medical reform program.
After the implementation of the medical and pharmacy separation system the number of drug health registration sharply plunged.
The KFDA reported that from Jan. to Nov. this year the total 1,213 drugs completed the...
NHI financial stabilization squeezed pharmaceutical industry only.
The NHI financial stabilization measures enforced by the MOHW has brought an effect of 50 billion won of NHI drug price slash this year, ultimately bringing out quite a business sacrifice to domestic drug companies wh...
