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(Update) Bayer Told to Improve Practice over ADR Reporting Delays, Gets “Verbal Guidance” for Xarelto Survey Fuss
The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (MHLW) on September 29 instructed the Japan pharma arm of Bayer AG to improve its practice over its failures to report 86 side effect cases, which were found in the wake of a…
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