The health ministry’s key reimbursement panel on November 15 gave its thumbs-up to the NHI price listing of a slew of new medicines on November 22, including Japan’s first PD-L1 inhibitor Bavencio (avelumab) and AbbVie’s eight-week hepatitis C therapy Maviret…
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