Japan’s health ministry approved a slew of new medicines on September 25 including multiple “first of its kind” products, among them being GlaxoSmithKline’s respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine Arexvy as well as Eisai’s Alzheimer’s therapy Leqembi (lecanemab).Arexvy became the first…
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Takeda Pharmaceutical offered apologies on March 3 over its improper promotion of Blopress (candesartan), which used a large-scale clinical study that compared its best-selling angiotensin receptor blocker and the calcium channel blocker amlodipine, but denied doctoring any research data. At…
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