A Japanese health ministry proposal to impose steeper price cuts on certain medicines deemed to carry poor cost-effectiveness profiles cleared…
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LDP Project Team Finalizes Proposal, Pushes Rethink of Off-Year Revisions
The ruling Liberal Democratic Party’s (LDP) project team aimed at fostering Japan’s capabilities in pharmaceutical innovation on May 21 hammered out a proposal calling for revisiting “off-year” drug price revisions. The panel, which is under the Research Commission on Social…
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