Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (MHLW) on March 5 unveiled the revised NHI prices for drugs subject to…
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Vaccine Panel Wary about Including Synflorix in Public Immunization Program
A health ministry vaccine panel took a wary stance on March 14 to add Japan Vaccine’s 10-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine Synflorix to the publicly funded immunization program for use in children. At the day’s meeting, the panel under the Health…
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