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MHLW Issues Notification to Change Japanese Pronunciation of “Rivaroxaban” to “Rivah-roxaban”
The Pharmaceutical and Food Safety Bureau’s Evaluation and Licensing Division, Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (MHLW; Korosho), issued a director’s notification on December 8 to all prefectures indicating that it would make a change in the Japanese transliteration for…
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