News About: Goverment
Concentrated Investigation for Selling Price of 43 Items with High Frequency.
Ministry of Health and Welfare made a policy to investigate in focus after choosing management subject item of 43 with high frequency such as digestive, synthetic cold remedy, antacid and vitamin because considerable ...
MOHW Considers Allowing Corporate Pharmacies
The Ministry of Health and Welfare decided on a policy to systematically consider the possibility of allowing the establishment of corporate pharmacies to cope with the changes in the market following the implementati...
Pressure to prepare countermeasures to minimize public inconvenience.
During the interpellation session of the Ministry of Society and Culture at the National Assembly, the ruling and opposition parties urged for the adoption of countermeasures to minimize the inconvenience to the publi...
Drug administration fees likely to apply diminishing rates.
The KPhA made it clear that the diminishing rate system applying to drug administration charge count would not be acceptable, which was earlier raised by the government as one of the NHI financial stabilization measu...
Issue on Emergency Contraceptive Pill to Be Decided on November 12
A decision on whether to allow the sale of Emergency Contraceptive Pill (NorLevo) is expected to be finally made on November 12, or 25 days after the public hearing.
The Korea Institute for Health and Social Affai...
Cooperation Requested for Abrogated Restriction of Long-Term Prescription
Even though regulations that restrict long-term prescription were abrogated it was learned that patients' complaints still exist because some medical institutes apply the old rules due to lack of information.
In r...
Agreement spirit among Medical, Pharmacy and government went astray.
The tripartite talks among the medical, pharmacy and government made an agreement over the medical reform program in Dec. last year, the spirit of which now seems to go far away from the earlier target, raising a lot ...
Government Considers of Permit for the Opening of Pharmacy Corporations.
It has been confirmed that the Government has a plan to permit the opening of Pharmacy Corporations.
During an interpellation session before the Ministry of Society and Culture at the National Assembly held on the...
Drug safety and efficacy shall be reviewed in 52 days
The health registration for manufacture or import of drugs due seems to be shortened from 85 days to 65 days, announced the KFDA.
The KFDA said that the required registration documentation would be far simplified a...
Pharmacological active materials must be under BGMP practice.
The BGMP has now provisionally required to practice especially for the pharmacoactive substances taking effect from Jan. 1, next year.
Most of local pharmaceutical raw material manufacturers are actively preparing...
