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Japan to Expand List of “Stable Supply Medicines” to 759 APIs, Adding Vaccines and Blood Products
A Japanese health ministry panel on August 27 adopted the candidate list of “stable supply medicines,” or clinically essential drugs that require stable supplies, expanding it to 759 APIs, up from the current 506, with vaccines and blood products newly…
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