The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (MHLW) on October 12 ordered label revisions for a batch of drugs including three granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF) products and Bristol Myers Squibb’s immune checkpoint inhibitor Yervoy (ipilimumab). The G-CSF agents subject to…
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