News About: Goverment
Fair Trade Act to penalize unfair prescription business practices.
The MOHW took the 5th talks with the KPA on Oct. 25 at the Korea Health and Industry Promotion Board and discussed 27 subjects raised by the KPA including the prohibition of prescription business collusion between med...
Too many exceptional measures to make medical reform plans meaningless.
The direction of the government's medical reform plans seems to go far astray from its targeted destination by expanding to adopt too many exceptional measures as a result of inevitably accepting unilateral demands so...
Orphan Drug Administration Center raised many problems.
In the Parliamentary Inspection of the Government administration on Oct. 20 the Assembly member Ko Jin-boo pointed out that 62% of the total operation budget for the Orphan Drug Center, 600 million won, was allocated ...
Medical reform program to give privileges to over 65 year old patients.
The ruling party and the government agreed to enact exceptional provisions of excluding application of the current medical and pharmacy role separation system to the elderly (over 65 year old) and handicap patients, p...
Stepwise health registration process to apply for pharmaceutical bulk.
According to the KFDA plans, the health registration system will be gradually applied to the pharmaceutical raw materials for enhancement of the material safety controls, and the new clinical studies was scheduled to ...
Ban on substitutive dispensing acts may boost illicit deals.
Since the medical and pharmacy role separation system was lauanched, many illicit business practices in drug trades have been prevailed in the market. Even drug companies provided unlawful rebates to medical institute...
Pharmaceutical affairs law revision came back to old plans.
It is very funny to note that the current revision bills of the pharmaceutical affairs law (the substitutive dispensing except the drugs of bio-equivalency tested was prohibited and Injectable drugs were excluded from...
Government hardly found ways for current medical issues to sort out.
Interns/residents Association called for a suspension of the negotiation talks between the government and the medical community over the current medical issues. Accordingly, the government efforts for the problem solv...
Negotiation between government and medical community focused on drug reclassification.
Negotiation between the government and the medical community once kept in deadlock on account of the disputed issue over the compromising talks with pharmacists has come now under active resumption especially on the s...
Substitutive dispensing allowed only for items of bio-equivalency tested.
In negotiation with the medical community the government may accept most of proposals presented by the community including the permissible range of substitutive dispensing drugs.
*Ban on the substitutive dispensi...
