Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (MHLW) on March 5 unveiled the revised NHI prices for drugs subject to…
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FPMAJ Creates Scheme to Deal with Drug Supply Disruptions; Companies to Set Up “Supply Adjustment Teams”
The Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers’ Associations of Japan (FPMAJ) has created a scheme to deal with disruptions in supplies of ethical drugs, under which manufacturers of these drugs and companies that market medicines with the same APIs or substitute drugs…
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