Japan should fundamentally overhaul its cost-effectiveness assessment (CEA) scheme while putting a hold on CEA-based price adjustments, a new ruling…
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Japan Grants Orphan Status to Vanda, Quoin Drugs, and Lots More
Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (MHLW) on June 23 doled out orphan drug designations to a raft of compounds including Vanda Pharmaceuticals’ imsidolimab for pustular psoriasis and Quoin Pharmaceuticals’ dipalmitoyl hydroxyproline for Netherton syndrome. Takeda Pharmaceutical’s vedolizumab was…
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