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New PMP Scheme Will Cause “Pause” before PIII Go/No-Go Decision: Pfizer Japan Head

January 29, 2018
Up to now, it has been almost taken for granted that Japan is included in Pfizer’s global PIII trials, but this might no longer be the case with a major scale-down of the so-called price maintenance premium (PMP) to be…

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