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Japan Panel to Review Boehringer’s IPF Drug, Moderna COVID Shot on April 27
Japan’s health ministry panel will meet on April 27 to consider approvals for a batch of new medicines and label expansions, including Nippon Boehringer Ingelheim’s oral PDE4B inhibitor nerandomilast and Moderna Japan’s next-generation COVID-19 vaccine. The two products are the…
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