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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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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