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KHA: no medical service discrimination at Economy Free Zone.
The Korea Hospital Association (President: Yoo Tae-jeon) suggested that the Association would not oppose the revised bill of "the law pertaining to the appointment and running of economy free zones" if medical service...
77% of AIDS patients died in 5 years after detection.
It was found that about 77% of the AIDS patients died in 5 years after its diagnosis according to a statistics presented by Korea Center for Disease Control and Prevention ( KCDC) to the National Assembly.
The stat...
National Assembly to inspect health related issues.
Amid ongoing pro and con talks over the medical and pharmacy role separation program (hereinafter called separation program) review being debated between the ruling and opposition parties, the 4 key health related iss...
Circulation society to launch Korea Heart Protection Project campaign.
The Korea Society of Circulation (chairman: Park Ui-hyeon) will launches a campaign for the protection of hearts under the title of "Korea Heart Protection Project" from Oct. 3 to 9 in order to draw warnings on the ri...
8 in 10 patients taking pain killers without knowing GI side effects.
3/4 of Korean and 2/3 of Chinese patients are taking pain killers for the treatment of chronic pains without knowing about possible gastro-intestinal (GI) side effects.
34% and 39% of those Korean and Chinese resp...
Awareness level of asthma, Korea lowest in Asia.
A market survey was conducted by Weslyn Worldwide, a multinational market research company from May 20 to July 28, 2003 under the support of MSD against 810 adult patients and their parents who were suffering from ast...
87% of practitioners positive for prescribing generics
A survey has indicated that 9 out of 10 practitioners in Korea would positively consider the prescribing of generic drugs, particularly in the domestic antihypertensive and diabetic market.
A survey conducted by U...
Substantial increase of hospital admission fee eyed
The Korean Hospital Association has called on the government to raise the daily admission fee of hospital-level institutions, claiming that the current fee hovers at less than percent of the actual cost and this has w...
5 weekday work system to batter prescription relied pharmacies.
As a result of implementing the 5 weekday work system at most of general hospitals, the first line of victims appeared to the pharmacies located near such hospitals where most of their business largely relied on the h...
KHA successfully negotiated with health industrial trade union.
The Korea Hospital Association (KHA) assessed their labor issue this year successful especially in reducing the rift between the employers and labors by negotiating with the health industrial trade union instead of th...
