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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Kyowa Hakko Kirin announced on June 4 that its UK subsidiary ProStrakan has modified its commercial agreement for cancer pain drug Abstral (overseas brand name; generic name: fentanyl citrate sublingual tablets) with Sweden’s Orexo AB, which discovered the agent. Under…
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