The global race to develop so-called “double G” and “triple G” agonists is heating up to boost the efficacy of…
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Medicoeconomic Assessment Should Initially Be Used in Reevaluating Existing Drugs: Dr Fukuda of NIPH
Takashi Fukuda (chief senior researcher at the National Institute of Public Health’s Center for Public Health Informatics (NIPH)), who serves as a research representative on the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare’s (MHLW) task force on medicoeconomic assessments, discussed the…
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