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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3 Chugai Researchers Win Lasker Award for Hemlibra Discovery
Three Chugai Pharmaceutical researchers who led the discovery of the hemophilia A treatment Hemlibra (emicizumab) have won the Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award, one of the world’s most prestigious medical research prizes. The winners announced on September 9 are Kunihiro…
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