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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MHLW Council Clears Public Knowledge Filing for MabCampath in T-PLL
Japan’s health ministry council has endorsed a public knowledge-based filing to add T-cell prolymphocytic leukemia (T-PLL) as an indication for Sanofi’s cancer therapy MabCampath (alemtuzumab). The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare’s Council on Unapproved Drugs and Indications with Unmet…
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