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Industry Will Refrain from Developing Suspicious Combination Drugs: Mr Hasegawa

August 24, 2009
At a meeting of Chuikyo's Expert Subcommittee on NHI Drug Pricing Affairs on August 5, JPMA Vice President Yasuchika Hasegawa said that the FPMAJ and JPMA will call on its member companies not to develop fixed-dose combination drugs in a…

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