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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Blopress, Takepron to Go to Teva-Takeda Joint Venture
Takeda Pharmaceutical will transfer its major long-listed products collectively worth some 125 billion yen, including the hypertension drug Blopress (candesartan), to its joint venture with Israel’s Teva Pharmaceutical Industries, the two companies said on December 28. The products subject to…
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