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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Pharmacist Group Says Drug Price Survey This Year “Utterly Unacceptable”
The Japan Pharmaceutical Association (JPA) expressed strong discomfort on July 17 against the government’s plan confirmed in its annual policy blueprint to conduct a drug price survey this year for “off-year” re-pricing scheduled for FY2021 despite the COVID-19 crisis. The…
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