The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (MHLW) on December 12 presented a draft outline of the FY2026 drug pricing…
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Eisai’s Global Brands Brisk but Sales Slip on Forex, Drug Price Revision
Eisai’s global brands were upbeat in the year through March 2017, but its group sales ticked down 1.6% over the previous year to 539,097 million yen owing to a biennial drug price revision in Japan and foreign exchange moves, the…
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