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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Pharma Wages Multi-Front Lobbying amid Push for Leaner Honebuto
The pharmaceutical industry is broadening its lobbying efforts beyond the Japanese government’s annual “honebuto” policy blueprint this year, as uncertainty grows over how drug policy issues will be divided among several key strategy documents. Industry officials say the prospect of…
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