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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JMA’s Upper House Candidate Says Scraping Drug Prices to Pool Resources No Longer Holds
Japan's budgeting approach of cutting drug prices to patch together healthcare spending is no longer acceptable amid crippled pharmaceutical supplies and other changes in the environment, says Satoshi Kamayachi, who will run for this summer’s Upper House election with the…
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