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MSD Japan Suffers 7% Sales Dip on Repeated Keytruda Re-Pricing, Urges Policy Rethink
Stellar sales performances are at times a mixed bag of good and bad for drug makers operating in Japan. This holds so true for US Merck’s I/O star Keytruda (pembrolizumab), which was hit by two double-digit price slashes last year,…
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