News About: Goverment
154 Companies Found to Be Selling Supplement Foods Advertised as Treatment.
Several health supplement food companies were found using false and exaggerated advertising to make consumers believe that their manufactured products are medicine and disease treatment.
The Korea Food and Drug Adm...
KFDA focuse on efficacy equivalent test bioengineering.
The KFDA key project next year focused on the drug efficacy equivalent tests and the development of new bio-engineering products with budget of 86,944 million won, 26.7% increase over this year.
The next year budge...
6,000 Medicine Items in Danger of Exclusion Due to Unfinished Effect Equivalence Test
Some 6,000 medicine items subjected for Effect Equivalence Test is in danger of being excluded from insurance salary because of their expected failure to obtain Effect Equivalence.
The Ministry of Health and Welfar...
Penalty enforcement to withhold against prescription issuance violation.
The current provision stipulates that physician shall issue prescriptions in duplicate but any punishment against the violation related with prescription issuance may not be immediately enforced but kept in withholdin...
Green Seal system applying to pharmacies from Dec.
The HIRA has exercised so called Green Seal system applying to the medical institutes, which will be extended to pharmacies from Dec. this year. The Green Seal system provides special benefits to the institute with sh...
Instruction to Suspend Supporting for Hospital Expenses.
Fair Trade Commission instructed 4 pharmaceutical companies and 2 wholesale companies to correct illegal transaction activity providing various expenses to hospitals and doctors for adopting medicine, rewarding prescr...
Post pricing control to exempt for prices exercised in hospital public tenders.
Effective from the next year the post pricing administrative control over the NHI drugs, which used to exercise by the government periodically in order to induce NHI drug price down, will be exempted when the drugs ar...
Administrative Measure for Issuing One Sheet of Prescription Executed Following Law.
The enforcement of revised Medical Related Administrative Measurement Rules which can suspend license if doctor does not give out two sheets of prescription on grounds to guarantee patient's right of knowledge is susp...
Common prescription drug lists presented only by 30%.
The common prescription drug lists supposedly scheduled to present by the medical communities already to the pharmacies by now may not come out for quite a long period of time.
According to the MOHW data compiled u...
KFDA mulls introduction of advanced consultation system.
The KFDA is considering an advanced consultation system for promotion of the new drug development.
The KFDA considered to establish "Guidelines for the clinical study plans" to support the clinical tests on drugs, ...
