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Supplies of 15% of Drugs Restricted, Generics Account for 80%: FPMAJ
Roughly 15% of all products on the Japanese NHI price list were under restricted shipments, with generics making up nearly 80%, according to the latest April supply survey by the Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers’ Associations of Japan (FPMAJ). The survey…
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