Japan’s all-important reimbursement policy panel on April 9 gave the nod to two new medicines for NHI price listing later this month - Amgen’s cancer agent Imdelltra (tarlatamab) and CSL Behring’s hereditary angioedema (HAE) drug Andembry (garadacimab). The go-ahead was…
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