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Chuikyo Approves Listing of 5 Drugs with Expected Peak Sales of Over 10 Billion Yen
The Central Social Insurance Medical Council (Chuikyo) approved the listing of 16 active pharmaceutical ingredients/28 products on May 13. Of those, five drugs including Gilead Sciences’s oral hepatitis C drug Sovaldi (sofosbuvir) are expected to record peak annual sales of…
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