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Japan Should Reward Innovative Startups through Drug Prices: Report
The Japanese government should reward innovation spawned by healthcare startups by crafting a pricing scheme catering to the size and other characteristics of these firms, the health minister’s private forum said in a report submitted on July 29. Since its…
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