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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Kaketsuken’s Business Transfer Necessary: MHLW Official
The Chemo-Sero-Therapeutic Research Institute has to transfer its business in order to prevent similar misconducts in the future, said Tomohiro Onishi, director of the Economics Affairs Division of the health ministry’s Health Policy Bureau in an interview with Jiho on…
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