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Premium for Innovativeness or Usefulness (I) Set as Prerequisite for 10% “Precursor Premium”
Japan’s drug pricing panel has agreed to set tough preconditions for a newly minted premium that would reward first-in-class medicines approved in Japan as the first country, raising the likelihood that only a minuscule number of products will be eligible…
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