Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (MHLW) on March 5 unveiled the revised NHI prices for drugs subject to…
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DPP Leader Poised to Urge 4 Ministers to Abolish Off-Year Revisions
The opposition Democratic Party for the People (DPP) is set to lean on four relevant Cabinet ministers to abandon “off-year” drug price revisions even if no clear mention is made on such abolishment in the government’s new economic package. The…
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