The Central Social Insurance Medical Council, a key Japanese reimbursement policy panel better known as Chuikyo, approved an outline of…
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MHLW Panel Approves Additional Shipment of Kaketsuken’s Venilon, Novact
A health ministry panel approved the shipment of certain lots of Chemo-Sero-Therapeutic Research Institute’s (Kaketsuken) Venilon-I for IV injection (freeze-dried sulfonated human normal immunoglobulin) and Novact M (freeze-dried human blood coagulation factor IX) on November 18. The shipment of the…
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