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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MHLW Scrambling to Set Up Vaccination System for Ultracold-Chain Required COVID-19 Vaccine
The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (MHLW) is working to ensure enough freezers and dry ice for medical institutions to store Pfizer’s mRNA COVID-19 vaccine, which is expected to become available next year and requires storage at an extremely…
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