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Supervisory activity for medical reform program ended in May
The supervisory activities for the medical and pharmacy role separation program having conducted by Seoul municipal authority may be discontinued in May. They inspected the business collusion between medical institute...
Actual Purchase Price Reimbursement System viewed in different points.
Introduction.
In line with the government overall counter measures for the impending NHI financial stabilization the current drug pricing system, called "Actual Purchase Price Reimbursement System" (the medication ...
'Preliminary Examination System' has a Great Feasibility
There is much possibility of introducing 'preliminary examination system' for examining abilities of foreign college student of pharmacy.
As inflow of Korean students from third countries in domestic is increasing...
Illegal Advertisement using Internet exposed in piles
It is exposed a heap of firms making a false description of efficacy·effect on vessel or package of medicine and illegal advertisement through internet homepage.
Korea Food & Drug Administration(KFDA) laid bare a...
1,276 pharmacies were found to have violated the pharmaceutical affairs law
The Korea Food and Drug Administration (KFDA) prosecuted 1,276 pharmacies, that violated the pharmaceutical affairs law by selling the pharmaceutical products without license or other violations, and took administrati...
Actual purchase price reimbursement system to overhaul.
The MOHW is going to amend the current insurance drug pricing system because of its conflict to the principle of the Fair Trade Act, allowing the drug prices in free market competition.
The FTC earlier ordered 39 d...
Bio-equivalent test to initiate for antibiotics.
The KFDA intended to implement the bio-equivalent test initially on most frequently prescribing drugs and antibiotics in order to enhance efficiencies of the bio-equivalent test administration.
The revised bill of ...
Unfair requests decrease after the post-management reinforcement
Unfair requests were found to have decreased since the Ministry of Health and Welfare reinforced the post-management over the medical treatment facilities.
The Ministry of Health and Welfare (MOHW) disclosed that t...
Health foods as pharmaceutical products to distribute to pharmacies
Some pharmaceutical companies were disclosed having distributed health foods, which contain unfit materials for foods, to commercial pharmacies.
Illegal foodstuff Control Team of Korea Food and Drug Administration...
MOHW reconsider actual purchase price reimbursement system.
Minister Kim Won-gil indicated in the Health and Welfare Committee of the National Assembly on April 19 to review the actual purchase price reimbursement system for insurance drugs that has been implemented from Nov. ...
