The Japan presidents of foreign pharma companies are no longer hiding their concerns about the stagnation of drug development in the Japanese market. In their business briefings for 2021, many of them made explicit criticism against what they see as…
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Japan Plans Alvesco Clinical Trial for Coronavirus
Japan’s National Center for Global Health and Medicine (NCGM) is planning a clinical trial for Teijin’s Alvesco (ciclesonide), an inhaled corticosteroid for asthma, for the treatment of pre-symptomatic patients infected with the novel coronavirus. The trial will examine whether Alvesco…
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