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Can drug makers disclose actual management data?
The Ministry of Health and Welfare has asked pharmaceutical companies to submit their reliable management data, reflecting their predicaments due to the government’s plan to cut drug prices by an average of 17 percent...
11,516 households face hard times from rising health insurance premium
A total of 11,516 households living on leases in Seoul alone have shouldered additional burden of average 8,356 won on monthly health insurance premium in the first quarter due to rising “jeonse” or “wolse” prices, wh...
Lawmaker advocates vaccine autonomy
When the influenza A (H1N1) fear swept the world two years ago, Koreans were relieved over the domestic availability of vaccines. Green Cross Korea produced the vaccine "Green Flu S" in December.
During the parlia...
New drug pricing reform to hurt local drug makers
Korean drug firms will no longer be safe from the corporate restructuring, after retail drug prices are to fall about 17 percent on average beginning next year following a set of government-led reforms, according to m...
Lawmakers call for careful approach over massive drug price cuts
The ruling and opposition lawmakers called on the government to reconsider its plan to cut drug prices by an average of 17 percent starting next year.
During the Assembly’s final audit of the health ministry and th...
Pharmacists are alert over revision of pharmaceutical affairs law
Pharmacy owners are still nervous of the lawmakers’ movement over the possible passage of a bill to revise the Pharmacy Law, designed to allow the sale of painkillers and cold medicines at convenience stores.
It is...
Drug makers to collect anti-government signatures
The Korea Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association (KPMA) unveiled its plan to continue to collect anti-government signatures from 1 million people, declaring an all-out struggle against the government’s plan to cut d...
Pharmaceutical firms to pin hopes on upcoming workshop
The Korea Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association said Monday that its 20 member companies will hold an informal workshop with the Ministry of Health and Welfare between October 11 and 12 to discuss the government’s ...
Pharmaceutical firms asked to submit management data
The Korea Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association called on its member companies to submit their management-related data until October 7, through its circular letter delivered on Wednesday.
The association plans t...
Assessment of President Lee’s 4-year welfare policies
President Lee Myung-bak’s 4-year welfare policies are assessed “poor” by the Citizens’ Coalition for Economic Justice (CCEJ).
The civic group said Thursday that Lee’s 84 welfare policies deserve no positive grade, ...
