The Central Social Insurance Medical Council, a key Japanese reimbursement policy panel better known as Chuikyo, approved an outline of…
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HSB to Make “Steady Efforts” Against Lifestyle Diseases: Director General Yajima
With the second Healthy Japan 21 project set to begin next April, the Health Service Bureau (HSB) “plans to make steady efforts against lifestyle diseases such as stroke and heart attack,” said HSB Director General Tetsuya Yajima on September 25…
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