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Internal medicine practitioners denounced pharmacies over illegal dispensing.
The Internal Medicine Practitioners Association denounced a pharmacy located at Eunpyeong Ku, Seoul to the public prosecutor on Jan. 3 on charge of dispensing drugs without prescriptions and occurrence of its adverse ...
SARS checks begin for Chinese travelers
Following the discovery of a severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) case in the Southern Chinese province of Guangdong on January 5, the government has begun to inspect people coming in from the affected country to ...
5% Korean population suffers from chronic disease
The National Health Insurance Corporation said in a report that 5.38 million people had received medical checkups in 2002 and of these people, 260,000 people (4.8 percent) was
diagnosed as patients having hypertensio...
KMA: nationwide rally for optional dispensing planned on Feb. 22.
The medical circle seems to have a nationwide rally on Feb. 22 next year for calling for the government to adopt "Optional dispensing program" along with the overall reform of the National Health Insurance system. Und...
Government urged to permit profit-making business of medical institutions, Korea Hospitals...
Government urged to permit profit-making business of medical institutions, Korea Hospitals Association says
of community clinics under the current health insurance system, adding that their profit-making business ...
Korea Hospital Association to demand earlier payment of medical treatment charges
The payment period of medical treatment charges on EDI-and paper-based claims during July to August of this year was delayed to eight days compared with the previous three months of March to May, according to a recent...
Escalating discontent over medical circle
Pharmaceutical business sources say that as the Korea Doctors Association, which expressed its extreme dissatisfaction to the decision of medical fees next year, has made incongruous arguments to the following issues,...
Hospital's infective disposal wastes to be reclassified.
The provision for the hospital disposal wastes has been revised more to toughen the administrative supervision against the hospital wastes. As a result, it may trigger a more waste volume and its handling costs as wel...
Antibiotic prescription remarkably declined.
The Health Insurance Review Agency (HIRA) reported that the antibiotic and injectable drug prescriptions during the 1st and 2nd quarter of this year greatly declined by 19.0% and 14.2% respectively compared to the sam...
Medical circle to publicize selective system of separating drug dispensing from medical practice
The Korea Doctors Association argued that the current system of separating drug dispensing from medical practice (SDP), which has proven to be in total failure, should be swifted to the selective SDP system that is mo...
