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MHLW Panel Backs Japan’s 1st PD-L1 Inhibitor, 8-Week Hep C Med and More
A key advisory committee of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (MHLW) on September 8 recommended approval for a throng of new drugs including Merck Serono’s avelumab, which is now certain to be the 1st PD-L1 inhibitor in Japan,…
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