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Almost No Growth in Domestic Market in Last 10 Years: Mr Yashiro

June 16, 2003
Chuikyo's Expert Subcommittee on NHI Drug Pricing Affairs held discussions on revising NHI pricing rules at a meeting on May 28. After presenting IMS data showing annual domestic market trends (NHI price basis) from FY1993 through FY2002, Mitsuo Yashiro (managing…

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