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- Battle Looming over 2% Adjustment Rate as New Honebuto Paper Nears Completion
June 1, 2021
- Japan’s First CEA-Based Price Tweaks Draw Near, April Listing Round at Earliest
February 9, 2021
- Potential Reimbursement Challenges of Aducanumab Could Usher in Health Insurance Overhaul in Japan
January 8, 2021
- Japan Rushing to Build COVID-19 Vaccination Regime as 1st Approval Draws Near
December 28, 2020
- Generic Makers Reorganizing Manufacturing Sites; Leveraging Their Strengths to Survive
October 23, 2020
- IPOs or Sale? Employee Motivation Depends on Exit Strategies of Investment Funds
September 16, 2020
- Sumitomo Dainippon Aims at 100 Billion Yen Sales from “Frontier Business,” Making Challenge Beyond Drugs
September 9, 2020
- COVID-19 Pandemic to Test True Value of MHLW’s Officers with Medical/Pharma Backgrounds
August 26, 2020
- COVID-19’s Impact on Pharma Becoming Clearer with New Data, Earnings
August 17, 2020
- With Equivocal Honebuto Wording, Off-Year Re-Pricing Debate Delayed Until Year-End
July 30, 2020
- Japan to See Arrival of 1st Treatment for HFpEF, Will Entresto Meet Unmet Medical Needs?
July 22, 2020
- Diabetes Market Regaining Momentum with New Launches; First Oral GLP-1 a Game Changer?
July 13, 2020
- Will Zolgensma Delay Spur Revision of Sakigake Designation System?
June 11, 2020
- Establish Development Regime to Always Be Prepared for New Infectious Disease, Global Health Confab Urges amid COVID-19
May 7, 2020
- Blurred Outlook for Off-Year Drug Re-Pricing, Will Japan Go Ahead with April 2021 Plan?
April 27, 2020
- Drug Rep Number Might Have Logged 5,000-Plus Decrease in 1 Year: Jiho Tally
April 22, 2020
- Lenvima Heading into Megablockbuster Territory, Will Merck Tie-Up Help It Top Combined Aricept/Pariet Sales?
March 12, 2020
- Course of Govt’s “All-Generation” Social Security Reform Could Impact Pharma
December 5, 2019
- Unison Capital Shows Rising Presence with Kyowa Deal, PE Fund Potential Catalyst for Industry Shakeup?
November 22, 2019
- Finance Officials, Payers Grow Jittery as Xolair’s Pollen Allergy Nod Looms
November 18, 2019
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