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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Bribery Scandal Emerges for Hiroshima University Doctor over Ono’s Glactiv
Another bribery scandal popped up involving a drug marketed by Ono Pharmaceutical. This time with a doctor at Hiroshima University, who is suspected of having pushed the use of the company’s diabetes med Glactiv (sitagliptin) to receive funding from the…
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