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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Blackstone to Sell Alinamin to MBK Partners
US private equity giant Blackstone said on July 3 that it is selling Alinamin Pharmaceutical, a consumer healthcare company it acquired in 2021, to its Asian peer MBK Partners. Alinamin, formerly the consumer healthcare unit of Takeda Pharmaceutical, has achieved…
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