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Ministry of Finance Budget Bureau’s Budget Examiner Hirotsugu Shinkawa (in charge of health, labor and welfare-related issues) expressed caution about implementing the premium for new drug development and elimination of off-label drug use on a full-scale, permanent basis at a…
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