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Eisai’s Okada Elected as JPMA Chief, Daiichi Sankyo’s Manabe to Head FPMAJ
Japan’s two major pharma lobbies elected new leaders on May 20 after their predecessors took an unusual one-year-extension for their terms of office to step up advocacy campaigns on “off-year” drug price revisions, which did not quite pay off after…
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