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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Japan Diet Enacts Bill to Create “Japan CDC”
The Japanese Diet on May 31 passed into law a bill to integrate two national centers into a so-called Japanese version of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The law will come into effect within three years…
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