News About: Goverment
Drugstores Suspected of Closure and Consultation to be Supervised All Year Round
With the announcement of amended pharmaceutical laws as a turning point, supervision and punishment of drugstores suspected of consultation, which serves as an obstacle to the settlement of the specialization system, ...
Assessment criteria for rationality of medical service payment.
The MOHW is drafting the assessment criteria for rationality of the medical service payment and the differential payment guideline for the medical service.
Under the new guideline the above differential payment wi...
Substitutive dispensing in need of immediate consideration.
The substitutive dispensing has been tried to activate by the government in view of relieving the NHI financial problems but hardly made any progress in the field, only leaving a task behind drastically to transform t...
Closing Public Health Centers Impossible Without Approval of NA
A law that prevents the closure of public health centers without the approval of the National Assembly has been introduced, a development which is of interest to the public at large.
Yong-hee, Choi, an Assemblyman...
New System of Estimating Medicine Approval at the Same Time to Be Introduced
It is expected that drug approval in the country will become faster and easier when a new system for estimating the approval documents for drugs all at the same time is introduced on July 1, 2002.
Additionally, a p...
Prescription drugs faced drastic overhaul.
Quite a number of local prescription drugs will face to exit from the market around coming Nov. when all medical and pharmacy reform programs be enforced according to the recent revised provision, thus the prescriptio...
Common Prescription Drug Lists now on active discussion.
After the promulgation of the revised pharmaceutical affairs act on Aug. 14, the MOHW has moved to prepare and circulate "Working Guideline for Preparation of the Prescription Drug List" to all regional medical and ph...
Drugs producing over 100 thousand tablets eligible for bio-equivalent tests.
The drugs to take a bio-equivalent test should be submitted with more than 100 thousand tablets of test sample, which can be sold after the test pass.
The KFDA plans to reduce number of the test group by ingredient...
500 Drugstores Under Special Management For Being Suspected of Consultation
Ministry of Health & Welfare carefully examining the drugstores and medical organizations suspected of consultation on the basis of the amended pharmacist law goes for examining the drugstores estimated as 500 to moni...
MOHW invest 1 trillion won for the development of new medicines and medical equipment.
The government will invest 1 trillion won until the year 2010 to help the fields of bio-technology, nano-technology and bio-information & communication, which are seen as the promising industries of the next generatio...
