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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Will New Economic Security Bill Contribute to Ensuring Stable Drug Supplies?
The Japanese government is drafting an economic security bill it intends to submit to the Diet in late February. The draft bill aims to promote efforts to enhance supply chains for resources essential to people’s lives such as drugs, with…
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