Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (MHLW) on March 5 unveiled the revised NHI prices for drugs subject to…
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Nippon Boehringer Ingelheim’s DPP-4/SGLT2 combination drug for diabetes will come up for approval review by a key health ministry advisory committee on July 27. If all goes well, it would gain the official nod by the end of September. The…
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