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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Govt Must Not Let Pro-Innovation Reform of 2024 Go to Waste: Sr Vice Minister
The Japanese government set category-based thresholds to define products subject to the FY2025 off-year drug price revision so as not to erase the pro-innovation changes made last April under the FY2024 reform, senior vice health minister Hirobumi Niki told Jiho.…
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