The Central Social Insurance Medical Council, a key Japanese reimbursement policy panel better known as Chuikyo, approved an outline of…
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Sakigake Status Withdrawn for Aducanumab: MHLW
The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (MHLW) removed its sakigake fast-track designation for Biogen’s aducanumab on September 19 after its major PIII flops earlier this year, making it the second such withdrawal, after Keytruda (pembrolizumab) for its gastric cancer…
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