Japan’s cost-effectiveness assessment (CEA) panel has approved a revised handling policy for the CEA system for FY2026, with the health…
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After Biogen Pullout, Salix Picks Up Rights to Mitsubishi Tanabe’s MT-1303
Some two years after Biogen pulled the plug on a licensing pact with Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma on MT-1303, Salix Pharmaceuticals grabbed global rights to the drug, an investigational autoimmune disease treatment also known as amiselimod, excluding certain Asian countries. Mitsubishi…
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