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- Industry Calls for Excluding Orphan Drugs from Cost-Effectiveness Assessment
August 3, 2023
- Chuikyo Reps Criticize Manufacturers’ Price Cuts after Unprofitability Re-Pricing
August 3, 2023
- Relief Claims OK’ed for 38 More Deaths after COVID Vaccination
August 2, 2023
- Generics Panel Initiates Debate toward Proposing Stable Supply Measures, Interim Report Slated for October
August 1, 2023
- Pharma Regulation Panel to Discuss Need for PI Japanese Data on Aug. 7
August 1, 2023
- Perjeta/Herceptin SC Combo, 1st Stelara, G-Lasta Biosimilars in Line for Japan Approval
August 1, 2023
- Japan Panel Shelves Decision on Shionogi’s COVID Vaccine over Efficacy Data
August 1, 2023
- First Two Homegrown COVID-19 Jabs Up for MHLW Panel Review on July 31
July 31, 2023
- Japan Safety Panels Recognize 2nd Death Possibly Linked to COVID Vaccine
July 31, 2023
- Japan to Buy 20 Million Doses of Pfizer COVID Jab, 5 Million from Moderna
July 28, 2023
- Japan Likely to Slash Moderna Vaccine Purchase, Pfizer Single-Sourcing Plan Nixed
July 28, 2023
- Chuikyo Medical Device Pricing Body Calls for Clearer Reimbursement Criteria for SaMDs
July 27, 2023
- Chuikyo Wary of Abolishing Spillover Rule, Positive on Reviewing Market Expansion Re-Pricing
July 27, 2023
- Chuikyo Divided Over Raising Premium Rates for Listed Products, Extending Evaluation Data
July 27, 2023
- Japan OKs FY2024 Budget Ceilings, 520 Billion Yen for Social Security Cost Rise
July 26, 2023
- MHLW Pharma Bureau Chief Eager to Do Everything on Regulation Panel’s Agenda
July 25, 2023
- Label Expansions for Jakavi, Soliris in Line for Approval
July 25, 2023
- Panel on Generic Industry to Boot Up July 31, Report Expected by Fall
July 25, 2023
- Label Updated for ViiV’s 4 HIV Meds to Change Caution for Patients with Renal Dysfunctions
July 24, 2023
- 93 Health Damages Reported for Temcell in Japan: October-March
July 24, 2023
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Earlier this month, the Ministry of Finance (MOF) unveiled a long list of social security proposals towards the FY2025 budgeting,…
A Japanese health ministry panel discussing the generic industry structure on May 22 put together a report in which it…
A Japanese health ministry study group focused on pharmaceutical regulations on March 21 agreed on a policy to encourage the…
The Japanese health ministry on December 22 approved a batch of medicines for additional indications, including Otsuka Pharmaceutical’s atypical antipsychotic Rexulti (brexpiprazole) and Zenyaku Kogyo’s anti-CD20 antibody Rituxan (rituximab).Rexulti is now newly indicated for the treatment of depression and depressive…
Japan’s all-important reimbursement policy panel on December 20 approved an outline of drug pricing reforms for FY2024, which enshrines a…
The Japanese health ministry’s expert panel tasked to discuss comprehensive policies for the rapid and stable supply of pharmaceuticals generally…
A key Japanese reimbursement policy panel on December 16 approved the government-backed plan for the FY2023 “off-year” drug price revision.…
Authorized generic (AG) strategies taken by innovative drug makers might help soften the impact of generic competition in their businesses but such tactics might also accelerate the application of “G1”/“G2” price cuts for their off-patent brand-name medicines, a Jiho tally…
Japan’s health ministry announced new NHI prices to be applied in April under the FY2022 drug price revision in the official gazette on March 4, with the earlier application of so-called “G1” price cuts to be implemented for the first…