Tariffs have been a defining feature of US trade policy under President Donald Trump’s second administration. Since Trump unveiled his “reciprocal” tariff policy in April 2025, the landscape has shifted repeatedly.In February 2026, the US Supreme Court invalidated tariffs imposed…
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Nippon Kayaku’s Novel Paclitaxel Form in Breast Cancer PII after PIII Miss
Nippon Kayaku said on February 21 that it has kicked off a PII study for its polymeric micelle anticancer agent NK105, a novel drug delivery system (DDS) formulation encapsulating paclitaxel in macromolecular micelles, after it failed to meet the primary…
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