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Medical institutions still rely on high-priced drugs
Medical institution's current practice in favor of high-priced drugs has been still rampant and use of antibiotics in the treatment of mild diseases such as common cold is on the contrary increasing, a sur...
Medical and pharmacy circles accorded to unify medical system.
The medical and pharmacy community accorded with their joint resolution plans over the current outstanding issues faced in the medical and pharmacy communities, by unifying the current plural medical systems, restruct...
Medical community in conflict with duplicate issuance of prescriptions.
In return for the pharmacists to obligate keeping the dispensing records the physicians agreed to issue a duplicate prescription, but this issue raised a big conflicted problem to the KMA and the Korea Medical Practit...
Hospital bankruptcy rate surged to 9.5 percent
The nation's hospital bankruptcy rate last year marked 9.5 percent, up 0.6 percentage point from a year earlier, according to a recent survey of the Korea Hospitals Association.
The survey showed that the bankrupt...
25 percent of children with asthma absent from school, a poll shows
One out of four local children with asthma was absent from school and both children with asthma and their parents are being unable to work at the same level of activity as before, a poll showed recently.
In a two-m...
First probable SARS case discovered in Korea
The National Institute of Health said a man, who returned home from Beijing in the morning of April 28, was classified as a probable patient with severe acute respiratory syndrome as his symptom match the criteria by ...
Bacilli dysentery spreads to local regions
Although fears grew Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) is spreading across Korea, health authorities are also on high alert due to the recent outbreak of bacilli dysentery.
The National Institute of Health s...
KMA drastically to reinforce medical reform supervision activities
To check the pharmacist's illegal dispensing practices without physician's prescription or substituted dispensing behaviors, the Korea Medical Association is going to intensify their supervision activities.
The KMA...
General hospitals should be allowed to make direct transaction with drug makers, KHA says
The government should allow the direct drug transaction between general hospitals and pharmaceutical makers in a bid to lessen the prevailing wholesaler margin of five percent, said in a statement of the Korea Hospita...
AIDS patients in Korea topped 2,122
As of the end of March this year, a total of 2,122 Koreans were found to have been carrying AIDS (acquired immune deficiency syndrome), according to a report released by the National Institute of Health.
The report...
