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No Extra Fees Will Be Charged for Add’l Survey Items for MID-NET’s PMS Use: MHLW Working Group
A working group on the health ministry’s large-scale medical information database, dubbed MID-NET, on March 22 agreed that drug makers using MID-NET for their post marketing surveillance (PMS) will be spared from additional access fees even if new survey items…
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