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MHLW Group Launches Study for Post-Marketing Safety Measures to Boost Global Harmonization, Efficiency

September 1, 2021
With an eye to the reform of its pharmacovigilance system, the health ministry has initiated a study on post-marketing safety measures, which will investigate overseas examples and survey Japanese drug makers to sort out current challenges. “Global harmonization” and “efficiency”…

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