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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Generic Use Targets Should Be Set by City/Ward in Major Prefectures: Professor
Densely populated prefectures like Tokyo will need to set generic use targets by city or ward in addition to targets on a prefecture-by-prefecture basis, Nobuya Koyama, professor at Toho University Faculty of Medicine, told Jiho, pointing out that measures on…
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