News About: Goverment
National Assembly's inspection of government offices scheduled from Sept. 29.
The Health Welfare Commission of the National Assembly (Chief commissioner: Mr. Kim Chan-woo) took the joint meeting of the ruling and opposition party members on Sept. 16 and determined the inspection sched...
Separation plan to be finalized on Sept. 17.
All subcommittees of Separation Implementation Commission have almost completed to prepare the frameworks of the medical and pharmacy separation plan, and therefore the Commission will have the 2nd meeting at the conf...
Maker, product and ingredients to be described on PTP and Foil packed drugs.
The civic group earlier raised the description issue for the package of drugs so that pharmacists could not dispense any general or professional drugs by their own wills without physician's prescriptions. For this pur...
Bridging study to launch after coming Oct.
The revised bill of "Regulation pertaining to Drug Safety and Efficacy Evaluation" looks delayed in its implementation probably after the coming Oct. The regulation replaces the current clinical phase III study requir...
Insurance drug prices to slash soon
Prices of about 15,000 insurance drugs seem to be cut down by 30.7% on average taking effect from Oct. 1 along with implementation of actual purchasing price reimbursement system, the MOHW will announce within this we...
Equivalent drug efficacy issue implicated in different interests of related groups.
The equivalent drug efficacy issue has been disputed without any chances of optimistic resolution probably because of its different interests among related organizations, the pharmacist, the medical and the government...
Antibiotics designated to product class for report.
Pharmacy shall comply to the KFDA provisions in Viagra sale as it was designated as a control drug under the category of abuse and misuse drug class. Antibiotics were classified to the drug for report and radioactive ...
Drug Administration Subcommittee faced difficulties in selection of items to test bioequivalency.
The Drug Administration Subcommittee could not make any conclusion regarding the item selection of bioequivalency test and other disputed issues during the meeting on Aug. 30.
The Subcommittee failed to reach any c...
Viagra sale at pharmacy allowed 2 tablets per a day.
The KFDA announced that Viagra was classified as a control drug prone to an abuse and misuse, therefore, restricting sale at pharmacy up to 2 tablets per a day and 8 tablets per a month per a person.
The KFDA appro...
Determination of prescription and dispensing fees to be top issue.
Most of issues raised so far by relevant organizations and civic groups seem to be almost resolved except the determination of fees for physician's prescription and pharmacist's dispensing, which may be surfaced as th...
