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KMA's general meeting aborted due to failure of quorum.
The regular general meeting of the KMA has been aborted because of failure of the quorum.
The KMA tried to have the 54th general meeting at Hilton hotel on April 27 but failed because number of attendants was less ...
Prescriptions in brand names found only in developing countries.
The government seems to enforce physicians to write prescriptions in generic names instead of brands for the purpose of boosting successful settlement of the medical and pharmacy role separation system and of the NHI ...
Medical struggle committee to be restored
It is very likely for the medical struggle committee to be restored its activities.
The suspension of their national level of strikes recently moved by the KMA executives rather provoked a hot rage to their members...
Doubts linger over the leadership of the current executives of KMA
Due to the sudden delay of general strike scheduled to be implemented on April 17, strong doubts have lingered over the leadership of the current executives of the Korean Medical Association (KMA) which acquired a who...
Number of HIV infected people up
The National Institute of Health (NIH) said on April 16 that a total of 75 Koreans were additionally infected with the virus that causes AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome) in the first three months of this year...
Local Wholesalers Anxious about Zuelling
The domestic pharmaceutical circle seems to lose its control over the Zuelling issue. The issue was likely to subside when the official statement by the pharmacist association of Pusan/Kyung-nam district opposing to t...
KMA withdrew medical strike
The Korean Medical Association withdrew its strike plan scheduled to begin April 17. The decision was made in the urgent permanent council meeting held at 7:30 a.m. today.
It is reported that the meeting was spli...
Korea Hospital Association to stage a nationwide rally
The Korea Hospital Association (KHA) has announced that it will stage a mass-scale rally across the country on May 2, if the following proposals cannot be accepted by the government: (1) reasonable hospital admission ...
KHA to ensure the transparence of hospital management
The Korean Hospital Association (KHA) has announced that a serious of measures will be adopted to ensure the hospital management by observing a hospital account rule, thus minimizing some disadvantages in their negoti...
KDA to prescribe non-insurance drugs in doctor's conviction
The Korea Doctors Association has recommended that its member prescribe any drugs excluded from the insurance-covered list from April 1, based on the current medical practice.
As for 1,413 OTCs that were was listed...
