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MHLW Panel to Review ASKA’s Hepatic Encephalopathy Drug, Opdivo’s RCC Indication on Aug. 5
A key drug review committee of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (MHLW) will reexamine on August 5 whether to recommend approval of ASKA Pharmaceutical’s hepatic encephalopathy treatment rifaximin, for which the panel’s decision was put on hold at…
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