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Govt OKs Action Plan on Drug Resistance
Cabinet ministers officially adopted an action plan on antimicrobial resistance on April 5, which calls for reducing the volume-based use of antimicrobials by 33% by 2020 from the 2013 level. After the day’s Cabinet meeting, Health Minister Yasuhisa Shiozaki told…
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