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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Japan Targets Global-Level Growth for Domestic Patented Drug Market
The Japanese government has unveiled its public-private investment roadmap to target the annual growth of the domestic patented drug market on par with other major markets, adding a new goal to an earlier draft that focused on worldwide patented drug…
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