Japan’s cost-effectiveness assessment (CEA) panel has approved a revised handling policy for the CEA system for FY2026, with the health…
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Japan is set to finalize its first-ever clinical trial guidelines for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) treatments by the end of this year, in a move aimed at accelerating multiregional drug development and reducing the country’s longstanding exclusion from global ALS…
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