News About: Goverment
KMA on non-observance to present common prescription drug lists.
The KMA failed to keep deadline (Sept. 13) for the common prescription drug list to present to the pharmacist associations, showing that the provisionally required list presentation was not observed at most of regions...
Non-cooperation From KMA Delaying Prescription Medicine List
The government is helpless against the intentional delay of submission of the prescription medicine list by the Korea Medical Association (KMA). While the legal deadline for the submission of the list ended on Septemb...
Health Food Sale Misleading as Medical Supplies Offered on Home Shopping Channel Rapidly Increase
Companies that make profits by confusing and misleading customers by advertising diet food and other products as medicine or effective for curing diseases have been exposed.
A central mobile surveillance team fr...
Former Ministers of Health and Welfare Summoned as Witnesses
The former Ministers of Health and Welfare were called as witnesses by the Health and Welfare Committee of the National Assembly in relation to the bankruptcy of insurance finance for the separation system between cli...
Reference price system initially applying to 4,557 drugs.
In the policy debate over the Reference Price System on Sept. 19 Mr. Han Oh-suk, the chief officer of the Survey and Research Institute of the Health Insurance Review Agency (HIRA) indicated under his presentation tit...
Prescription Medicine List Includes 468 Items From 106 Companies
An analysis of the prescription medicine list for Sancheong-kun, Kyongnam province which was announced on September 13 revealed that Daewoong Pharmaceutical leads all companies with 28 items out of the total of 468 pr...
MOHW mulls punishment when no issuing prescription sheets in duplicate.
The MOHW indicated in the commodity price related ministerial meeting on Sept. 14 that a certain penal provision should be enacted against physicians when their prescriptions are not issued in duplicate as prescribed ...
Law on Oriental Medicine Management Goes Against Medical Unification
The Ministry of Health and Welfare is considering whether to implement a law on Oriental medicine management to promote the development of the Oriental medicine industry in the country.
Amid growing opposition f...
Common prescription drug list prescribed in law turned useless.
The regulation pertaining to the Common Prescription Drug List as prescribed in the Pharmaceutical Affair Act revised in August this year seems to be remained only in paper without any provisional effects because of n...
KFDA instructed label change over 91 products including Ranitidine.
The KFDA instructed to revised direction circulars for 91 drugs, additionally inserting new adverse reactions including H2 receptor blocker such as Ranitidine.
The informations about such drug adverse reactions hav...
