News About: Goverment
Exposing Pharmacies That Committed Prearranged Activity Is Practically Difficult
As the problem of prearranged activities between medical institutions and pharmacies becomes more serious, it is undermining the settlement of the separation system between pharmacies and clinics because the agency in...
KFDA instructed for Gleevec to be properly administered.
The KFDA instructed the medical, hospital and pharmacist associations to administer Gleevec, a therapeutic agent for a chronic myeloid leukemia according to the approved indications and efficacies, because its use rec...
Medical Supplies Imported From Japan Required to Prove Safety From Mad Cow Disease
While imports of processed food and food products from Japan that use ruminant as raw material were temporarily suspended effective September 13, a policy in Korea now also requires importers of medical supplies, cosm...
Urgent Centralization of Food Safety Management
A suggestion was made for the urgent centralization of the country's food safety management system, the function of which is distributed to seven agencies including the Korea Food & Drug Administration (KFDA), Ministr...
MOHW Plans to Introduce Profit Model for Electronic Insurance Card
The Ministry of Health and Welfare plans to establish a reasonable profit model similar to the one used for credit cards and electronic money to reduce business expenses for the introduction of the electronic insuranc...
Pharmacy Advertising in Hospitals Is Illegal
The Ministry of Health and Welfare issued an authoritative interpretation saying that advertising by pharmacies within hospital buildings or entrances of buildings is illegal.
This interpretation was made in a b...
17 new drugs on phase III studies during fist half this year.
It was reported that 36 new drugs were underway of clinical studies, of which 17 drugs entered into the phase III studies. 4 drugs belong to anti-cancer and orphan drugs that required only clinical phase II studies fo...
"Nolevo" morning after pill likely to approve in Nov.
The health registration for Nolevo, a morning after pill, seems to get KFDA approval around coming Nov. after the public hearing in Oct., said KFDA chief commissioner Yang Kyu-whan in the parliamentary inspection meet...
KFDA to Introduce Electronic Appeal System for Permission of NDA
The Korea Food & Drug Administration (KFDA) will introduce an electronic system for receiving public appeals such as permission of drug application and will execute the plan starting the second half of next year to cu...
Substitute Dispensation In Name Only
It has been pointed that the activation plan for substitute dispensation which was enforced as a means of curtailing insurance expenses by the Ministry of Health and Welfare has not been very effective.
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