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Japan Picks 14 “Loss” Products as Drugs with Highest Priority for Development
The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (MHLW) has wrapped up its work to group 78 so-called “drug loss” products into four tiers based on their priorities and needs for domestic development, identifying 14 products as the top of the…
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