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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Takeda US Unit Withdraw sNDA for Velcade
Takeda Pharmaceutical announced on October 6 that its US subsidiary Millennium has withdrawn the supplemental new drug application (sNDA) that it filed in February 2011 in the US for the multiple myeloma treatment Velcade (bortezomib) for the indication of combination…
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