Japan’s cost-effectiveness assessment (CEA) panel has approved a revised handling policy for the CEA system for FY2026, with the health…
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MHLW Official Restates Difficulty of Moving Up Timeline to Attain 80% Generic Share
Generic makers must be able to churn out a combined 100 billion tablets annually to achieve a proposed volume-based generic penetration target of 80% in FY2020, and it is difficult to move up this schedule as advocated by some people…
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