News About: Goverment
“KEF must stop pursuing for-profit hospitals, telemedicine and extension of OTC drugs”
A voice was raised to criticize about telemedicine and extension of OTC drug sales(energization of drug stores) that was recently commented to the Ministry of Strategy and Finance at the Korea Employees Federation.
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MFDS supports rapid development of incrementally modified drugs and first generics
The Ministry of Food and Drug Safety will extensively support drug patent information to encourage development of competitive products, such as incrementally modified drugs and first generics.
The Patent Linkage Sys...
“Support Project for the Right Use of Drugs is to prevent health care providers from ab/misuse of drugs”
As the Korean Medical Association brought up the ‘infringement of the right to prescribe medicines’ in regards to the National Health Insurance Service(NHIS) and Korea Pharmaceutical Association’s ‘Support Project for...
MOHW hits ‘green light’ on discussing about health care costs for safe management of high-risk drugs
The discussion about health care costs for safe management of high-risk drugs for pharmacists working at medical institutes has been positively reviewed.
Secretary Seung-Ryung Hong at the Ministry of Health and Welfa...
MFDS carries out mutually cooperative system for GMP with ASEAN and Latin American countries
In order to support Korean pharmaceutical companies to enter overseas markets, the government will be active in establishing a mutually cooperative system in the drug GMP field with ASEAN and Latin American countries....
MFDS to carry out onsite inspections on multinational pharmas’ manufacturing facilities
Imported medicinal drugs will be applied under the same level of standards in quality assurance(QA) with products manufactured in Korea.
The Ministry of Food and Drug Safety(MFDS) announced that they are planning to ...
“If being quiet, priority for drug review might get pushed back”
The Pharmaceutical Benefits Division at the Ministry of Health and Welfare emphasized importance of participation of pharmaceutical companies for the ‘Annual Review Plan’ prepared this year.
Since they are making gen...
9 former-pharmacists elected at 6.13 Local Elections
9 pharmacists gained glory of being elected at the Local Elections on 13 June.
According to the National Election Commission, total 9 candidates of the 6.13 Local Elections who were used to be a pharmacist were elect...
MOHW, “We’ll take a lead in resolving the emergency household medicine issue”
The Ministry of Health and Welfare(MOHW) stressed an opinion of taking in charge of resolving the emergency household medicine issue.
This was basically an answer to a concern that part of the industry suggested abou...
Survey starts to understand size and cost of wasted drugs for the first time in Korea
A research will be conducted to take a close look at concrete size and cost of drugs wasted in Korea.
The Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service(HIRA) recently gave a notice of tender for the contract researc...
