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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Survodutide Could Carve Out Role in MASH as Next-Gen Dual Agonist
The development of Boehringer Ingelheim’s survodutide is gathering pace, putting the GLP-1/glucagon receptor agonist in contention to become the next major entrant in the fast-evolving market for obesity and metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis (MASH). Survodutide belongs to a new generation of…
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