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“Huge Seller” Re-Pricing Targeting Hep C Drugs Will Dampen Innovative Market

December 9, 2015
The rollout of a proposed re-pricing rule for blockbuster drugs now looms as a real possibility, raising speculation that it will hit novel interferon (IFN)-free hepatitis C medicines, which have seen exponential sales growth already in their first year on…

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Japan’s cost-effectiveness assessment (CEA) panel has approved a revised handling policy for the CEA system for FY2026, with the health…

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