The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (MHLW) on December 12 presented a draft outline of the FY2026 drug pricing…
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MHLW to Seek FY2016 Budgets for Genomic Data Collection, Registry-Based Trial Platform
The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare’s (MHLW) budget requests for FY2016, beginning next April, will contain funds for setting up a hub to collect genomic data and building a patient-registry-based infrastructure to fuel clinical studies on rare diseases, it…
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