Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (MHLW) on March 5 unveiled the revised NHI prices for drugs subject to…
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A “50-Billion-Yen Plus” Newcomer
MSD’s new pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) therapy Airwin (sotatercept) hit the Japanese market in mid-August. It’s the kind of launch you only see once in a blue moon — a fresh drug with projected peak-year sales north of 50 billion…
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