Japan should fundamentally overhaul its cost-effectiveness assessment (CEA) scheme while putting a hold on CEA-based price adjustments, a new ruling…
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The two-week limit on prescription of the direct thrombin inhibitor Prazaxa (dabigatran), the first oral anticoagulant in nearly half a century approved in Japan, was lifted on April 1 one year after its launch. Despite a “Blue Letter” (safety flash…
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