Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (MHLW) on March 5 unveiled the revised NHI prices for drugs subject to…
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Reorganization of MHLW Inevitable: PM Suga
The organizational revamp of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (MHLW) looks inevitable given the increasing workloads and budgets it has to handle, Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said on September 28. The MHLW has “grown into too huge an…
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