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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AstraZeneca Japan to Draw on Overseas Dapagliflozin Data to Trump SGLT-2 Rivals
Gabriel Baertschi, president of AstraZeneca K.K., says he is confident that the company’s sodium-glucose co-transporter-2 (SGLT-2) inhibitor dapagliflozin will outstrip SGLT-2 competitors, as it will capitalize on overseas clinical data as a key differentiator. “We are first-in-class in the world,”…
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