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- LDP Project Team Submits Proposal, Calls for Limiting Off-Year Coverage to Drugs with Larger-than-Average Price Gap
December 5, 2022
- Japan Enacts Bill to Amend Infectious Disease Act
December 5, 2022
- Japan Enacts FY2022 Extra Budget, Reserves Nearly 4 Trillion Yen for COVID Response, Medical DX, Childcare
December 5, 2022
- Industry Hews to “No” to Off-Year Plan, but Wants Special Steps If It Is to Happen: LDP Confab
December 2, 2022
- Finance Minister Says Wants to “Reduce People’s Burdens” via Drug Price Revision
December 2, 2022
- Average NHI-Market Price Gap for 2023 Off-Year Revision at 7.0%: MHLW
December 2, 2022
- Japan Plans to Lower Minimum Age for Moderna COVID Booster to 12
December 2, 2022
- Evusheld Shelf Life Extended for 6 Months in Japan
December 1, 2022
- MOF Panel Presses for Full Annual Price Cuts, Rethink of COVID-Related Government Purchase
November 30, 2022
- Orlistat in Line for Approval as Japan’s 1st Nonprescription Obesity Drug after 4-Year Review
November 29, 2022
- Limit Coverage of Off-Year Re-Pricing to Drugs with Large-than-Average Price Gap: LDP Proposal
November 29, 2022
- Sanofi’s Cemiplimab Backed for Approval, Third PD-1 Inhibitor in Japan
November 29, 2022
- MHLW to Report Responses to Zolgensma Paper Retraction on Dec. 12
November 29, 2022
- MHLW Panel Endorses Teikoku’s Donepezil Tape for Alzheimer’s and More Drugs
November 28, 2022
- LDP Lawmakers’ League Holds Hearing on SaMD Review Status
November 28, 2022
- Japan to Begin Xocova Supply on Nov. 28 ahead of Schedule
November 28, 2022
- MHLW Panel OKs 111 More Health Damage Claims for COVID-19 Vaccines
November 28, 2022
- Japan Approves Label Expansion for Enhertu, TS-1, and More
November 25, 2022
- Upper House Health Committee OKs Bill to Amend Infectious Disease Act
November 25, 2022
- LDP Pharma Study Group Calls for Careful Discussions on Off-Year Plan: Proposal
November 25, 2022
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