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Interstitial Pneumonia Added to ADR List for Daklinza, Sunvepra
The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare issued a pharmaceutical safety information bulletin on December 1, notifying physicians that interstitial pneumonia has been added to the list of clinically significant adverse drug reactions (ADRs) in the package inserts for the…
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