Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (MHLW) on March 5 unveiled the revised NHI prices for drugs subject to…
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The Devil Is in the Details P. Reed Maurer Every year at this time I try to entertain the readers of this paper with statistics that take the pulse of Japanese society. In fact few people find statistics entertaining, but…
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