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Japan Moves to Bolster R&D and Stockpiling of Crisis-Response Medicines
A Japanese health ministry panel has endorsed a policy to accelerate the development, regulatory clearance, and stockpiling of medical countermeasures (MCMs) for priority infectious diseases — rare but potentially severe infections that spread sporadically into the country or emerge from…
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