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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MHLW Official Introduces Patient ADR Reporting System
Kazuhiko Mori, director of the Evaluation and Licensing Division of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare’s (MHLW) Pharmaceutical and Food Safety Bureau, introduced a patient adverse drug reaction (ADR) reporting system on April 12. “It is becoming possible for…
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