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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The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (MHLW) said on June 18 that it will be offering KM Biologics and Daiichi Sankyo a maximum of 50 billion yen in subsidies to conduct large-scale vaccine trials. The two drug makers were…
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