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May 20, 2002
Medical Expenditures for Tobacco-related Diseases ReportedAt a seminar to promote smoking cessation held by the Smoking Cessation Promotion Committee of the Japanese Circulation Society on April 25, Yumiko Mochizuki of the National Institute of Public Health reported that tobacco-related medical…

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Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (MHLW) on March 5 unveiled the revised NHI prices for drugs subject to…

By Shinya Sato

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By Philip Carrigan

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By Ken Yoshino

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