Japan’s contract drug rep ratio rose to 8.7% in FY2024 as the total number of regular reps continued to fall, the Japan Contract Sales Organization Association (JCSOA) reported in June. Amid industry downsizing, the roles and expectations placed on contract…
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The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (MHLW) plans to charge 42.12 million yen for drug makers’ use of its large-scale medical information database, dubbed MID-NET, for their post marketing surveillance (PMS), it was revealed on July 19. The database…
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