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Doctor Responsible for Damage From Turning Down to Adjust Prescription
A doctor is responsible for any damage due to medication incident caused because doctor who prescribed medicine rejected to make any adjustment when pharmacist raised objection for mistake or overdose.
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Public Advertisement of Specific Diseases Prohibited
Public advertisement of specific disease and of special medicine in a suggestive way is prohibited.
Korea Food and Drug Administration decided to reflect them to Revision of Detailed Enforcement Regulations of Addi...
Conspiracy of Closet Agreement for Issuing 1 sheet of Prescription Should Be Cleared.
In relation to the late release of comment by Kim Won-Gil, Minister of Health and Welfare given to Shin Sang-Jin, chairman of KMA that he would help out actively for issuing 1 sheet of prescription citizen's associati...
Pharmacist Excluded from Expansion of Prescription Limit for Oriental Pharmacist.
It is known that Ministry of Health and Welfare is considering plan to massively expand prescription limit for oriental pharmacist to the level of oriental medicine practician to solve incident which oriental pharmaci...
The Budget for KFDA takes the lowest among 13 government administrations.
As safety issue of food and medicine has been raised as an important matter budget allocation for KFDA was disclosed to the lowest among 13 government administrations and it is urgently requested that government's con...
Penalty against pharmaceutical affairs violations to ease.
The KFDA is going to alleviate the administrative punishment against any violation in the pharmaceutical affairs. For instance, only one major administrative punishment will be executed when prosecuting more than 2 ca...
License Cancellation for False Charge of Medicine Fee.
Further change is noticed because legislative bill of Revision of Pharmaceutical Affairs Law is discussed at National Assembly which set strong standard of administrational punishment such as license cancellation or s...
Substituted dispensing possible only for 184 drugs proven of bio-equivalency.
184 drugs have been found to complete the drug efficacy equivalency in the biological equivalent test as of Nov. 22. Accordingly, 184 drugs are now possible to substitute in prescription filling at pharmacies accordin...
Health supplement provision to legislate in early next year.
The bill pertaining to the health supplement law drafted last year seems to pass through the National Assembly during the extraordinary session as scheduled at the early of next year.
Rep. Kim Myung-sup of the MDP ...
KPA declared struggle against unreasonable oriental medical policy.
The KPA stepped into an indefinite struggle campaign against the government's biassed oriental medical policy until the time it is corrected.
The KPA took a meeting of the Emergency Counter Measure Commission on No...
