Japan’s drug pricing panel held its final round of industry hearings on December 10 as it heads toward the FY2026…
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Pharma Labor Group Renews Call for Abolition of Off-year Revisions
A group of pharma labor unions held an emergency gathering at a Diet building on October 8, reiterating its calls on both ruling and opposition party lawmakers to abolish “off-year” drug price revisions. Repeated drug price cuts through off-year revisions…
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